Napoleon Da Legend - Midnight Madness

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So many holding they breath
Hoping for me to fail
Disappear into the unknown
6 feet or jail
On these beats
Freak it like sadiq raphael
Naysayers i left they heart torn like an acl
Adding insult to injury, salt on the wound
Should be more zen at my age yo pardon my mood
But all my life had something to proof, mountains to move
Evolved opposite of athletes fountain of youth
Aged gracefully, sold yall the truth not make believe
Kept faith in me, i thank those who prayed for me
Choose to focus on the good parts
Rеcollect the best mеmories and hit the bookmark
Even when i made poor decisions had a good heart
You can act ready, the game don’t begin until you push start
These little scars on my skin like badges
Fascinated in the fast life it’s midnight madness

〈napoleon da legend chorus〉
Nighttime when the freak come out
Stuck in my ways in a cage hoping one day i leave somehow
Good deeds bad deeds hope they even out
Nighttime when the freak come out
Stuck in my ways in a cage hoping one day i leave somehow
Good deeds bad deeds hope they even out

〈napoleon da legend verse〉
You name it i did it, round trip plane tickets
Passport stamps magazines with my face in it
Books with my name in it
My lane different, over heads like a prime blake griffin
Great britain to the czech republic
Getting published eating out getting recognized in public
Scoring i’m known for getting buckets, my averages
Stay at the top of the league that’s why they mad at him
Still getting hate up in my home town
And it’s sad, i had to get away to get my own crown
Showed up and just did what i loved
Instead of being stuck i found my way out the mud
Kept a strong nucleus i got it and i knew what to do with it
Cooking up like a peruvian
Late night in they whip got em tuning in
Must have forgot had to slap em with the truth again

〈napoleon da legend chorus〉
Nighttime when the freak come out
Stuck in my ways in a cage hoping one day i leave somehow
Good deeds bad deeds hope they even out
Nighttime when the freak come out
Stuck in my ways in a cage hoping one day i leave somehow
Good deeds bad deeds hope they even out

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.