Napoleon Da Legend - Legend of the Basilisk

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉
Siegfried defeated 2 headed dragons up in the big league
Blood soaked his entire body except for a fig leaf
Mixed breed double helix I snuff elitism
Make ya knees buckle I chuckle cause what I utter genius
Blood of buddha mixed with Jesus chopping all the disbelievers
My words uplift the teachers even when cuffed in the precinct
I’m nothing decent spray light rays the sun reaching
Future leaders of the slums long as my lung is breathing
Young Kalonji dodging the devilish nonchalantly
Non-GMO, 53 and 0, debating Chomsky
I’m caking calmly catch me at the local bank
To be a king gotta go beyond from what I soldier think
Studying under the understudy never overthink
When u know the strength it takes to win the truth is sobering
Take it back to no career when the flow was rare
No calculations in the mental but the soul was there

〈Napoleon Da Legend hook x2〉
Blood of a dragon soaked me made me invincible
I provide the voice for the invisible
Connected and we form one nation indivisible
Minus fear out the equation we move on principle

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉
Sidetracked my life under a magnifying glass
Fly pass all my detractors with a defying blast
Truth bullets hit ya chest nah / u can’t deny that
A lot real estate inside my state I plan to buy back
Custom made coats Edgar Allan Po yo my talent spoke
Thru the trials I cope I handled that without no malice bro
This ain’t for childish folks this ain’t trying to sound woke
My goals to sow seeds over land and watch my salad grow 8
Teammates and my kinfolks and keeping making my ends grow
Ten folds where my universal mind is synchro
Hokuto No Ken, Snowden with a gold pen
Buddha master techniques my secret is an old friend
Survival mode kaleidoscope of blessings it’s the Essence
I’m off centered slightly eccentric my shoes electric
I don’t curate I innovate like the cure for aids
They sure to praise, I serve em something pure for days

〈Napoleon Da Legend hook x2〉
Blood of a dragon soaked me made me invincible
I provide the voice for the invisible
Connected and we form one nation indivisible
Minus fear out the equation we move on principle

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.