Napoleon Da Legend - Soldier of Truth

[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1]
Read the headlines 7 projects in a year
Y’all took black babies I’m bout to adopt Britney Spears
Ground breaker Ill and Al Skratch I’ll take her
With or without paper you dudes is clout chasers
On my Clue tape 90 shit Kay Slay grimy shit
Almighty woke up and they all wanna bite me
Sunez school of Mecca yea that type respect
Envelopes under the table just to duck the IRS
I invest in small business and call out bigots often
Try to come for me I show how to get coffin
Show u how to make a song and how to get em talking
That talk turn to money show u how get em walking
Now I got em stalking and that shit a little stressful
Mad cause you stuck from where that day where I left you?
So many jewels in one verse how can it free?
Word on the street prophet Mohamed in my family tree
Do your research

[Hook Napoleon Da Legend x2]
I’m doing this cause i can
I wanna free the minds of the children women and man
Get off your smartphones start growing food from the land
Help u avoid the traps I give the truth in advance

[Napoleon Da Legend verse 2]
Triple threat stance I stand against scams
Expand my horizon like an X-man
Pet scans revealed his brain special
Theories’ll blow ya mind like a 38 special
Catch me kneeling on the White House lawn during the anthem then I take time to shout out moms
Rest In Peace pops, peace to D Rock too
You know my Chi's Shaolin monk and my speed Mach 2
Enoch you can knock me or lock me my crew motley
It’s crowded in the room i broke rules that can cost me
Scott free took the red when I met Morpheus
Money copious hidden inside a cornucopia
Courtside, Anna Kornicova on my side Cobra Kai
Why (I) never trust a bunch of sober guys
So alive
Me and greatness coincide nice
Dig deep enough and you might find Christ

[Hook Napoleon Da Legend x2]
I’m doing this cause i can
I wanna free the minds of the children women and man
Get off your smartphones start growing food from the land
Help u avoid the traps I give the truth in advance

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.