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Holy Grail

by Napoleon Da Legend

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[Napoleon Da Legend Verse 1] They took away our courage and inserted fear So I swallowed up my pride and cried inverted tears Everywhere’s an opportunity to shine I got the eye of the tiger think with a Buddha’s mind Joggers or suit and tie they tried crucify the messiah Now let its digest like the enzyme in papaya I’m a pariah an outlier without a prior A mix between an arrogant truther and modest liar A human and a god, making music isn’t hard I do it for fun but they pay me like it was a job This a come to god moment in ya headphone Hyperventilating like you was breathing with ya chest gone He was the best already written on my headstone Tourette flow, retro, Chris Jackson neck flow Egg rolls, sushi Unagi, I’m a tsunami Annunaki Like getting my mind soul and body right [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] The emperors coming !!! Got all my ducks in a row and it feels right The new wave is coming !!! This is a warning that we sending better get right [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Schedule all booked I might just sell a book You Melbrooks in Spaceballs ya whole demeanor smell shook I demoralize you sort of guys Victory sweeter than what’s in between Kimora Lee's thighs I’m not the least shy not a preachy guy You PG-13, I swipe the stripes off ya shirt clean Do you a solid now apologize I can see more pussy in you then a gynecologist that’s cross eyed Kaleidoscope a meteor that collided with dope Not a scholar, I’m emperor Caracalla meets the pope I Don’t need notes damage like nicotine smoke Leg lock ya knee broke, Ricky the dragon steamboat Overload em with machismo Jake Roberts Like the reverse of a queer, I’m spitting straight knowledge Less than 5’8 with Nate Robinson hops Body ya whole body of work and let it rot in box [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] The emperors coming !!! Got all my ducks in a row and it feels right The new wave is coming !!! This is a warning that we sending better get right
2.
[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] Never stagnate live everyday like it’s my last day Namaste hope the good I do erase my mistakes And it’s mind state acquired like in wine tasting Wide awake middle of the night with my mind racing Thoughts zip lining with insomnia seen people persona change like the hair color of Rihanna I hope it’s for the best though cause life can be grotesque and roughest than a gortex soul yep We so obsessed with the concept of success That shit can be more toxic than a pessimist’s breath But what’s really important? Every time you stress ya life shortens So caught up in the mix I be forgetting what’s normal I gotta get away from it to savor it Keep it one hundred with myself like highest score from Wilt Chamberlain Mad risky like tales of Agatha Christy You can die from loss of hope like a dagger ta kidney [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] While they try to tear us apart with the bigotry The tensions high you could probably hear a cricket sneeze Negative vibe I’m sick of reading headlines Spreading lies messing with my mind before bedtime Should put my phone down it’s hard to slow down when u got goals that’s higher than the pole up north Don’t wanna be cut short It’s a tough course training like Jean Claude in Blood Sport Buying supplements up in the drugstore To stay sharp like Neymar in Saint-Germain If you ain’t bout the growth what we doing ain’t the same Going thru great pain and sacrifice come to think in certain countries you’ll get killed for a bag of rice Over here it might be Nikes and some Adidas kicks I just wanna serve better like Ivanisevic On a clay surface at the french open Putting the pieces back together cause I’ve been broken For real tho
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] Gazing back my bad days I wouldn’t take em back Save that for y’all to critique when I fade to black I’m glad I never let doubts get the best of me cause They would be so many highlights I would never see I used to be so insecure slash immature Thru the years I learned you can’t make another man’s image yours Cause ya truth is like a signature it’s unique Cinema director and I’m living out my movie Edits and mad deleted scenes several script changes A bit a danger I’m a risk taker I do my own stunts, otherwise for me its no fun Shogun assassin might run up to a wall and do a back-flip I’m the hero and the actor ignore the camera Playing the main protagonists was told I was a natural Summer blockbuster parachuting off a crop duster Pay my dues and stay recluse like my pops mother [Napoleon Da Legend Chorus] This a story of a man who had a dream Ever since He read the source magazine Hanging pictures on my wall Bumping Wu-Tang Forever they would tell me "it’s yours" [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Half a lung and asthma pump still wanted to get involved Smell of cigarettes my neighbors smoking in the hall Hustle in the spirit was stubborn and conflicted Weazing and outta breath, struggling to spit it But why is it I felt the most alive in that moment Poker face a pro at hiding pain put a mask on it Believed in what I had and I put some cash on it These rap dreams don’t come attached with a map on it You gotta work the locks yo pride gonna get hurt a lot Few taste-makers gonna decide who gets heard or not But fuck em, just build platform and be yourself The real can tell and you see for yourself That it’s ain’t what seemed from when you first look Respect the game my perspective changed and the earth shook And it’s looking even better than it did before I’m touching people I ain’t met and that worth living for [Napoleon Da Legend Chorus] This a story of a man who had a dream Ever since He read the source magazine Hanging pictures on my wall Bumping Wu-Tang Forever they would tell me "it’s yours"
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Hype Juice 03:11
[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] It’s academic, coonery's an epidemic Looks harmless and then it reach the youth like DJ Akademics And it’s a Machiavelli tenant Deception is a method that they use against us as a weapon Dressing up like chicks and gender bending Trolling 101 for attention disrespectful statements trending Label heads lending their advance And Fronting like they got organic fans Worshiping that pentagram Another troll tactic now they deemed the total package All the major blogs paid off / to post they albums The smaller blogs gotta follow suit like sheep puppets Arguments in comments makes the algorithm skyrocket Can’t knock the hustle Russell Simmons started And all the opportunities that Hip-Hop has given artists But damn can’t a man talk about the by-product And the damage it did to our people just to buy a products? [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] Got us drinking that hype juice That machine can make everybody like you Flashing lights feeling Eiffel Now ya lit On iTunes, Spotify and Tidal? [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Gun bars, drug bars, sex bars Ghostwriter to my left to write the next bar Next star the one before just got left off It’s a business the machine is like a Death Star That the Dark side that carbon monoxide One thing about the Truth is it cannot lie Multi-color dreads chasing clout and using beef That’s some things that’s always gonna work with human being It’s psychologic it’s beyond logic, bombarding us with promo controversy get us all to cop it Good or bad news a feedback loop And ironically most artists never see that loot Past due? You can’t recoup? Get dropped, substitute Gotta constantly reinvent yourself like Busta do One day you popular the next they had enough of you In a split second ya career can flash in front of you [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] Got us drinking that hype juice That machine can make everybody like you Flashing lights feeling Eiffel Now ya lit On iTunes, Spotify and Tidal?
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Gut Check 02:48
[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] No Pain no Gain a king I’m a say no names Changed the whole game while they did the same ol’ same Same old names and gimmicks it’s an age old saying What you put ins what you get out of this game OK? Swish! the black Smith maximum lit My Maxim is to blow backs in tilt ya over the axis You can tell from the accent I’m spitting facts and Saks Fifth getting to this bag quick / I’m nasty with it A fire hazard a fly bastard I adapted Sado-mas' got the knack for this game time Y’all talking about practice I be dunking with the hang time Soaking up my jersey in the future they gon hang mine Over the rafters like Larry Bird in Boston Disregarding jealous ones like I never heard em talking Soul searching like a girl who got a third abortion This a gorgeous gut check that’ll hurt ya organs [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] Gutcheck gutcheck Half these rappers out there suspect What I say might get em upset [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Relationship kill and relationship build I seem way too many artist trying pay to fit the bill You Should have stayed real grass fed and organic Multi-tasking I snap necks and form planets And perform for only the hardcore fanatics Aim the 44 caking like Jay "444" 24-7 so obsessed I’m jordanesque I can run laps around you with a broken leg Show respect or meet a slow death wilding like a Vietnam Vet on no meds What yo step in these parts where they car jacking police cars and disregard the life of chumps who try to be hard Focused like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk A phenom plus I bust they try cheat on us Believe you me that beef’ll get you C.U.T. Got a pack of wolves in the back that wanna see you bleed it’s that [Napoleon Da Legend Hook] Gutcheck gutcheck Half these rappers out there suspect What I say might get em upset
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] Told me I was her best wants me to clean her mess We connected in sex she loved it when I squeeze her neck She was still beefing with her ex she was in heavy debt Lost some weight on weight watchers she used to be heavy set Not even a week / into it we starting arguing You owe money and push a Benz ma look at the car you in Oh / my bad I know / you gotta keep up with Joneses Cubic zirconias praying you get that job bonus Sacrificed ya peace for ya appearance seems like a pattern Getting mad when you borrow from me and I ask it back Then you get me to smash make up sex the best right Booked a show u get jealous when I take my next flight Almost feel like we competing, we supposed to be a team Texting me threat before I hit the stage Now I’m getting heated Hacked into my Instagram and twitter then deleted it The fuck is wrong with ya mad sexy but you devious [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] You my brothers keeper nah fuck that sucka you reaching I don’t trust you either top of that I don’t fucking need ya Off the hook, phone ringing when you need a favor Flip side peace see ya later ghost like Anita Baker Arrogance is a disease a cold mixture of fear and greed Showed ya true / colors like a scene shot by Tarentin' Talking to my ex? I guess that how you felt you want my life so bad you should be trynna build yourself I don’t want ya help help nah I’m good fam I’m good I’m just I’m just doing me out here like, like I should I’m in too deep I gotta eat plus got several mouths to feed One way street type friendships ain’t what its cut out to be With friends like this who needs a rival bribing and conniving pirates for survival I could probably write a novel i don’t know how to Shut my mouth when I see foul shit I’m a just pull ya file Keep my name your mouth who you calling pal?
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] Jack hammer the ciment the black hammer head Dagger sledge hammer legend drinking Armarret... standing next to all my predecessors Going on the record you can add another check to ya record collection Overgrown egos getting emo that shot of Tito’s got under my skin like a torpedo Yo bout to chill and melanate And push all of toxic negative energy the hell away Come to think I used to welcome drama melancholic self hate scrolling up my mental Teleprompter The devil calling me like telemarketers I put em my no-call list that Nikoli Volkoff shit Not impressed by all ya so-called hits My buzz accumulate, I call it a snowball flip And yo them "know it’s all’s" is getting sick they got canned like Campbell soup and, on some Andy Warhol shit [Napoleon Da Legend hook] I got nothing to lose Walk a mile in shoe kid I got nothing to lose What I live is my truth and I got nothing to lose And I just do what I choose kid I got nothing to lose I got nothing to lose [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Wolverine status, the guillotine slasher One man army better than the illest team rapper I’m a green magnet / slash clean magnum Read the chapter Alcindor came Kareem after The tea bagger slash rematch asker I be fiending for this rap shit the relapse master The go-for-broke type like a crib with no lights Up late cold nights updated from my old life The rock bottom is a gift it’s like a starter kit And when you make it passed you can deal with all of it That unpredictable smooth shit for you douche bags Seeing a pharaoh shine got some of them dudes mad No free collabos it’s deeper than rap tho Teaching these cats flow keeping the cash flow Peeping the cat go and exceeding the plateau No need to ask you already know I got nothing to lose [Napoleon Da Legend hook] I got nothing to lose Walk a mile in shoe kid I got nothing to lose What I live is my truth and I got nothing to lose And I just do what I choose kid I got nothing to lose I got nothing to lose
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Haribo 03:02
[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1] Married to the game with no pre-nup my buzz beamed up Copped a Jolly Rancher pop from the ice cream truck Everything I dream of came to me like an avalanche I used to pray like god please give me half a chance All I needed was the rock to score the bucket On the road stunting, video shoots going over-budget So what? Fuck it! It’s one life to live so why should I give I just inspire these kids to think big It’s narrow road backstage gummy bears, Haribo Get my mind right then steal the show like Chris Jericho Best kept secret New Orleans at the Essence Fest Take me to ya leader, I don't do second best It’s a jungle in my DM's Eva Mendez type Overnight FedEx package with Nike’s Late flights shots of whisky crowds rocking with me feels like my pops soul with me think about him rolling thru the city [Napoleon Da Legend verse 2] Drinking games one shot you give the wrong answer I'm feeling mad dizzy I played it off with a calm manner House party with some old friends cigars lit Tomorrows not promised so the present gotta honor it Royalties looking like a tax return check Play the game smart the moto’s earn more and do less Encourage bootlegs get it how u can it’s all fam Cause when we die we gonna leave it where we all stand Feel like marked man they try to pick apart my plan Like the late martyrs in my Malcom in My martin stance Started to expand hired a staff for my empire to last cut the pie in half Then fly back slide my seat back, dip the tea bag, pick up a newspaper nowadays I barely read that I’m like T-Mac minus the bad Kneecaps no A&R needed cause what I do they don’t teach that Just being honest

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Napoleon Da Legend links up with Toronto-based producer Sproxx on this full length album.

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released February 22, 2019

Produced by Sproxx
Written by Napoleon Da Legend
Artwork by Domenico Errico
Features Recognize Ali, Tona, DJ Modesty & DJ TMB

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Napoleon Da Legend Bilingual MC & Producer artist from Comoros, living in Brooklyn, New York.

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