Napoleon Da Legend - Dieu est en Nous

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉
Proletaire, scolarisé par le block
Au fil du temps le colon nous a moralisé par le gloc
On reste fort my mentalité à un par choque
Hardcore Tu m’respecte j'te respecte on est d’accord
3 passports bien tamponné dis moi si ten connais
Cest con on rendu la vie impossible a vivre sans monnaie
Il connaissent rien au sujet, Il appellent mon rap démodé
Cesse ta mélopée, j'suis un Eloheem plus evolvé
Avec un ego frais comme Ségolène dans un débat
Black syndicat, on mendit pas jsuis Mandiba
J’viens du bas, meilleur rappeur du monde candidat
J’mange des mangues avec ma bande squat à Zanzibar
Tu veux un couplets? C’est 200,200 dinar
Le rap game sans moi c’est comme B.B. King sans guitar
Tu connais l’heure tu connais l’accent Tarzan
J’cause Avec dieux comme moise au buisson ardent

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉
Tu vois’l carnet, Bob Marley réincarné
On m’paie pour parler, mon crâne fait de beton arme
Ta tête est cramé ton style faux ricain ça fait tiep
Mais t’inquiète une fois qu’j’pars, tu pourras manger mes miettes
J’fais ca pour le bled, impérialisme à l’envers
Sanguinaire comme un gosse qui grandit sans ça mere
Jsuis un iceberg, j’coule le titanique
Comprend la mécanique
J’frappe avec une rengaine sénégalaise et ça d’égalise
Vainqueur eternel mangeur de merguez
Casseur de vertèbres faut savoir le faire
Faut aussi savoir se taire quand ta pas d’vecu
En plus t’es mal vêtu ton label
Te jeté comme un sal P. Q
Tas montré ton cul, petit con je lance des Obu
J donne des coup d'tete python, reste focus
C’est un Blocus des rappeurs vinegre
Homme cromangron au cylex
J’les vexé style Macron a Kremlin-Bicetre

Napoleon Da Legend - Biography

Bilingual, Hip-Hop/Afrobeat artist, Napoleon Da Legend transferred his skills on the basketball court to the wax. Before that, he had to teach himself English. He kept his ears glued to the radio.

Paris-born, to the Comoros Islands, then Washington DC raised, the son of an immigrant family, Napoleon is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses his voice as weapon of hope, social-critique, conquest, and joy. After an untimely split, his parents left the U.S. and went their separate ways leaving the 16 year old to fend for himself in the DC / Maryland area, which helped him develop his hustle, instinct and work-ethic. NDL’s song “Black Privilege” led him to be featured at the Essence Festival in 2017. He was then invited to perform live on FOX 5’s Good Day DC.

NDL’s message of empowerment, community, and self-determination through music doesn’t stop there. He also works regularly with youth, running hip-hop workshops in Brooklyn’s toughest schools and Rikers Island’s juvenile programs.

Following the release of his “Steal This Mixtape” series in 2016, Napoleon headlined his “Steal This Mixtape” European Tour. He’s been featured on Statik Selekta’s Show Off Radio Show and Sway Calloway’s Sway in the Morning. To top all this, he graced the stage at the final Rocksteady Crew’s 40th Anniversary show at SummerStage in Central Park. In 2019, NDL performed in Europe’s biggest Hip-Hop Festival Hip-Hop Kemp in Czech Republic as Supa Kaiju with rapper/producer Sicknature.

2018 was yet another prolific year, without a doubt. Napoleon released 10 projects- including four albums, four mixtapes, and two EP’s released through various indie labels (Chopped Herring, Media Pop, Copenhagen Crates and Tuff Gong Records). This was followed by eight appearances in 2019 at Harlem Week’s main stage. He then became recognized for his fusing the world’s of Hip-Hop and Anime with albums Dragon Ball G (Dragon Ball Z), Bronze Saints (Saint Seiya) and King of the North Star (Fist of the North Star) in a feature article on Bandcamp (How Napoleon Da Legend Made Anime-Inspired Rap an Artform).

Since then, NDL has released 12 more projects, including the afrobeat/hip-hop fusion projects, “Afrostreet” & “Afrostreet 2”. After creating a few anthems (“Poulet Maafe”), which became popular with his French speaking audience, NDL decided to put his French powers into high gear. In September, 2019, he gave his first in interview in French with Mediapac (Watch it here), garnering over 100,000 views in less than a week. In May 2020, NDL featured on elite French rapper Akhenaton’s (IAM) “Asteroïde” project, trading verses in French and English on the innovative song “Storytellers”. In 2021, NDL was invited to adapt Akhenaton’s 19 minute song “La Faim de leur Monde” in English. They later collaborated on a 3-part EP series called “The Whole in my Heart” produced by Akhenaton on his label La Cosca.