Napoleon Da Legend - People First

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉
Emotionless and mathematically going against the odds
Address the fraud be my guest you going up against a god
Who next to exercise their right I disconnect effective
When I Write and flex
Me and my tribe connect and speak in dialects
I’m a entire threat to corporatists, my politics
Might rival yours a child of war
How many heads I’m chopping off
Dropping classic like the commodores I run the score honky dore
Chill with a naughty whore rocking Armani short
They copy more from the original charisma shows
Took a different road to break like connecting fist to nose
Running the pick and roll like Steph Curry thru the defense
So many rappers sending shots forgetting who to beef with
I gave em speeches helped them travel without a Visa
The crowd pleaser charging 40,000 for a feature
The one and only, Master of Ceremony I’m goldie
Like the homie Ice Cube I’m my own league

〈Napoleon Da Legend Hook〉
Only as good my worse as long as I’m walking this earth
My soul gonna reflect in my work
Not a slave duke respect my worth
Sprinkle water for your thirst
In my tribe we put the people first
Only as good my worse as long as I’m walking this earth
My soul gonna reflect in my work
Not a slave duke respect my worth
Sprinkle water for your thirst
In my tribe we put the people first

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉
Automated warfare the course is clear
The game remains the players change switching office chairs
Neo-liberal promises got us cynical
About the system and it’s inherit racism visible
By awakened minds blinded by the naked eye
Appropriating our style and culture how they plagiarize
And water down the substance to commercialize abundance
Cause we ain’t nothing but a
Bunch of numbers to these number crunchers
The world is in a choke hold the climate changing
Still it’s so cold under the table money that’s the ghost mode
Chasing the dough so we can postpone our inner peace
Show boating in between, my dojo was in the streets
Don’t mistake the humble when there’s nowhere safe to run to
Forced to make decisions that can’t replace or undo
And you come to age, everything that fake’ll crumble
Falling for the pump fake while u was chasing bundle

〈Napoleon Da Legend Hook〉
Only as good my worse as long as I’m walking this earth
My soul gonna reflect in my work
Not a slave duke respect my worth
Sprinkle water for your thirst
In my tribe we put the people first
Only as good my worse as long as I’m walking this earth
My soul gonna reflect in my work
Not a slave duke respect my worth
Sprinkle water for your thirst
In my tribe we put the people first

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.