Napoleon Da Legend - Path of a King

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉
Bare feet dashiki at the meeting care free
Compare me with only the best I’m rare G
Ubiquitous like the air we breath a pair of jeans
Got receipts for anybody wanna test that heat
Jack Reacher, back smack the reaper
Beat ya got em turning em red like paprika
With a bad diva on side duck an evil eye
Deep sigh for those who tried don't quit ya job
Genetic make up I’m built for plaques and the billboards
Independent getting what these hacks wanna kill for
What u was thinking I would chill more?
Always build more raps a real sport everything they sell pork
All's fair in love and war my heart made of Kevlar
On a hero’s journey with the devil as a guest star
While these dudes chasing success so they can flex hard
I gave the rap world the grail like Templar

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉
Back to basics like Larry David, curb your enthusiasm
You’d be shocked, the types of questions: the groupies asking
They dropping albums I be making movies happen
Popcorn ohhhs and ahhhs! True reactions
Master P No Limit I’m embody it
Fuck around crash the show and steal ya audience
Crack ribs Po the legend a savage
My level at about schizophrenic and batshit
Trae Young i shoot from way deep showbiz and AG
Wouldn’t spit bullshit if they paid me
Young black intelligent, crazy nice
Cooked in the lab for 80 days and 80 night
Narcissistic parse the picture I talk different
Apocalyptic scalping Noah Arc Tickets
Sparring with my arch nemesis spread like carcerinogens left my mark since the start of my genesis

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.