1. |
Hokuto Shin Ken
02:44
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Stable genius with a rare point of view
Rather short fuse always serving up some soul food
Sold verbal jewels peeps in my circle knew
I was surgical with facts to free us from servitude
Close to the nations capital I learned to move
Beyond the smoke and mirrors I had to discern the truth
They want us dead or in jail
They want us in debt and let these corporations set the bail
Its a prison, information is the main resource
Jacking up ingredients from the main source
We gave these motherfuckers a pass though
From divine being now we worshiping cash flow
Anything for a position inside the matrix
Took the knowledge from our ancient DNA and then erased it
Trying to make us feel weaker when we the strongest
Divide and conquer, we been suffering for the longest
Killer bees with yellow vests got me yelling SOS
You can try to kill us but our destiny’s to resurrect
Looks like they got it sown don't it?
We can retrieve the throne and
turn the tables in the closing moments
Victor Hugo with pen / always to shoot to win
The sole inheritor of the Hokuto Shin Ken
No longer victims, ain’t no lynching the lynchpin
Got em binging ruin ya faculties like in Princeton
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook]
Got a hole inside of my heart
That I can’t seem to fill up for nothing
I just try to play my part
But Something from within keep callin
Spark and light a torch in the dark
And the walls around me keep falling
Every good thing ends at the start
They can’t stop me cause I keep evolving
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Weaponized joggers recognized the livest
Sporadic postures like the troops in Bosnia
Czechoslovakian boxers type discipline
Vice militant robbing the rich to fill the fridge
We ain’t having it, third world graduated
Thrashing the most expensive rapper you can collab it
Galactus, got the secret service trynna hack this
You can’t enter my thoughts, my mind is too elastic
Stand back, analyze reactions, slid him a 10
Oh shit, I passed the limit again?
Yo the god of Gab multi color bomber jackets riding a dollar cab
Only saluting those who acknowledge that
Monastery rap before the monetary crash
took the pain of my people on my back and carried that
To my very last breath and my last steps
With a legacy that's kept alive passed death
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2. |
Nanto Sei Ken
02:40
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
Putting ya best foot forward but u fail to do right?
Only thing that loves me’s made of plastic and a microchip
Sliding my fingers across the screen looking for likes to give
Living in a small box... What type of life is this?
I gotta wear a mask to get by? I ain’t vibing with this...
Writing Self congratulatory quotes
Growth in reverse giving my body vertigo
Working on my vertical up the social ladder
Insomnia, sheetless bed, broken mattress
Shower head is tilted no hot water
So I guess America’s looking more like Botswana
While AT&T merging up with Time Warner
Big wigs with beer bellies polly in hot saunas
Alumni’s with scholarships from the best colleges
Unelected but making decisions for all of us
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
I wore many masks and lived many lives
Seen truth get shattered by many lies
Kept a hard shell around my aura
It ain’t hard to tell we living in Gomorrah
Coin make the world go round it’s a cycle
They hate u u hate back the energy recycle
When it’s all set and done who wins?
Join me let’s break door down and all get in...
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Mermaids circling and singing off key
Pulling on my sleeve and dreaming of tricking off me
Who’s pimping who? When you double dealing
Who’s being humble? Feeling my gut get subtle feelings
Betrayal disguised as a smile that’s real genuine
Thru hell! I still kept my faith like a Jesuit
A little less pain is all we ask for! Before we blast off into oblivion and we can finally take our mask off, watch ya friends pay respect
What a shame that they all had to wait the day u left
Climbing grey steps to face the supreme judge
To make decisions, tally ya score and count ya deeds up
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
I wore many masks and lived many lives
Seen truth get shattered by many lies
Kept a hard shell around my aura
It ain’t hard to tell we living in Gomorrah
Coin make the world go round it’s a cycle
They hate u u hate back the energy recycle
When it’s all set and done who wins?
Join me let’s break door down and all get in...
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
A Lone Ranger out of the zone of comfort
Overcome it I don’t dream I go become it
Thru the darkness we let the light Spark faith in us
While my Stomach grumbles like a Harley Davidson
Marcus Garvey, from my heart I rock the Ableton
We gotta get our own, ain’t nobody saving us
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3. |
Novichok
02:31
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They don’t make em like this anymore
We dont have to Peace it out we can take it war
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Crabs rose out the bucket took their friends with em
Alpha male vibes ten women slept with em
U just a spin off I did a stint then I slid off
Black tinted windows on the limo when I set off
The next episode, I think like a general
It’s so incredible, my stance is impregnable
Inaccessible like the shadow government
I make em break their oaths and shatter covenants
Alfred Hitchcock, mix a dose of novichok
Never heard of me u bout get to know me watch!
Move like the G.R.U.
And when I’m done who gonna end up in the ER you!
200 burpees in the clergy, no perjury
The clouds parted in the sky when they birthed me
Jerome Kersey in the lane u bout to get block
Give a guest spot to the despot, get shot!
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
They don’t make em like this anymore
We dont have to Peace it out we can take it war
X 2
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
I’m quite sure, they try to syphon my life force
high score, I run the show like a viceroy
Or vice lord, soy sauce on my rice lord
Life's too short, I had to get it right lord
Gold from Angola put pressure on a man shoulder
Had to go back to get it... Sankofa
Catch a cold shoulder, a sharp elbow
A swift knee turn ya gut to marshmallow
These New MC's catch a UFC
These corny motherfuckers rap with two left feet
It’s useless / you might as well put two 'gainst me
There’s no such thing as living in the US free
Black Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Frank Dux
Uppercut catch a buck 50 on the chorus
Throw the dead bodies in storage it’s rather morbid
Once we flesh out ya weakness we exploit it
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
They don’t make em like this anymore
We dont have to Peace it out we can take it war
X 2
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4. |
Raoh's Theme
03:07
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
What I look like, telling others how to live life?
So much pain hard to paint it in a positive light
When I took losses it never softened the kid
It made me go hard and set bigger goals for the kid
Scars on my skin and my soul, you've seen me grow
Through hardships, regardless rain, hail, sleet or snow
Symphonies wrote masterpieces where I rested
"Ball" taught me discipline the key to life’s treasures
Late nights short stays no sleep for forty eight
We celebrated, throwing back drinks like Norea'
Missed flights, the glitter, the big lights
Switzerland nights, new jacket fits nice
Brain fog, making decisions playing god
Never looked back since I left that lame job
Broke rule when I’m stressed still the most cool
I’m a whole mood, move quiet y’all’ll know soon
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
I left here with what I need to know
Whatever fate says I accept mines
And when that day comes for me to go
I’ll fly up to the sky with my head high
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Black connoisseur I’m an outcast of sorts
Out of state greyhound trips back and forth
Flew over the foul talk loud mouths without bark
Shark recognize shark, I hustle like Al Sharp'
Made mistakes, name a man without flaws
Cut from a different fabric I'm handing out cloth
Respect to my woman’s and mans no love lost
Seen too many trynna cut corners and cut costs
And end up short inside this blood sport
Stuck in a predicament ya luck short
I’m in the best shape of my life I’m shaping my life
Thankful for music for coming back and saving my life
Otherwise I might been locked up for something dumb
Looking for a quick come up chasing a lump sum
Dreaming about where id be in 10 years
Looking back life rewards you for being sincere
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
I left here with what I need to know
Whatever fate says I accept mines
And when that day comes for me to go
I’ll fly up to the sky with my head high
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5. |
Rei of Hope
02:15
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
I try my best to see the good in things
See the good in people
Accept things for what they are not what could have been
Some friendships left me broken-hearted
Guess that’s what makes these beats feel so cathartic
My moms older and she’s still growing that impresses me
When you die, you don’t keep your jewels and the accessories
Listening to Lauryn’s first project
Feeling the vibe as I think about my progress
Nobody used to care, I couldn’t sell a copy
Used the art to free myself from the melancholy
Painting pictures as beautiful as female bodies
Sitting on the balcony watching the world’s folly
With a sense of pride and a hidden smirk
Cause I’m still alive all this time and I made it work
Looking at faces in the crowd with their smiles on
Reminisce on the past when problems used to pile on
Without a solution in sight
Would say a prayer in the booth every night
My song is like a vision board, spoke it to existence and you start talking different when the kids involved
Doing workshops in middle schools and prisons
To motivate to find their truth and break through the system
That’s rigged against us, fascinating by these gangstas
Who broke the rules so to elevate the way they living
I love life love my brothers and my sisters
My vibe is like an old school song from the whispers
It’s a kaleidoscope of blessings
Pockets full of hope I wrote out my own legend
On my own terms and that’s nobody else’s
Compromise myself for none that’s no exception
From cell blocks to cement blocks we get shell shocked
My goal is a house in the woods with a mailbox
A backyard where I can grow crops no prob
A blue lake where I can watch a goose graze with a flock
Flowers bloom birds chirp, you can smell the sunshine
Laying back with the queen of my world and unwind
Cool breeze rustling thru the leaves true indeed
With peace superseding any feeling u perceive
Universal law what u ask for you receive
Find yourself reconnected to the source..... and finally you are free...
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6. |
Yuria's Heart
02:21
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Two snakes skating out and got blades out
Punched him on his temple knocked his braids out
The other dude choked me from the rear but I elbowed him
Knocked the air out of his stomach then I pelted him
A bullet whistled passed left ear
Would sweat there side stepped it swiftly
Another grazed my chest hair
Was a sniper from atop of the Fortress
Smashed the gate, big hallways with the boss on the portraits
Parquet floor, kicked the guard in the face
Grabbed the other from the collar he was jogging in place
Up the double staircase knives were thrown my direction
Roundhoused him in chest disconnected his midsection
Looking for shin that dude, left me dead
And stole my wife when I see em I'm a sever his head
Knocking out his henchmen piercing they pressure points
Snatch a wrist up and separate the arm from the joint
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Shin sitting on his throne mad confident
I’m a take the life out his body and then I’m stomping him
He rosed up faced up, martial art stance
Side stepping cautiously bout to give him these god hands
Jumped up flying kick, mid-air collision
Shattered his shoulder pad when my left foot hit him
Disbelief caught em, Yuria was watching
He took her life swiftly she didn’t try to dodge it
My blood boiled up in a fit of anger blowing up
Struck him with 100000 fists had him throwing up
He laid dead, so pathetic with his face scared
He never played fair / guess he gonna stay there
Shocked faces on the people as I walked out
Carrying Yuria’s beautiful corpse out
And it’s a bittersweet feeling in my heart
Cause even tho she’s free, we still apart
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Virtuoso folklore, velour clothe
Expose the gloss can’t contain me within four walls
Crown Royale this game so foul
A lot of dudes who came up rich, became broke now
Seen grown men break down torn psychologically
Hiding behind a title, swimming in debauchery
When the title gone and the lights no longer on
And the hype beast left then they life’ll switch songs
That depression relevant chewing up the skeleton
Now remembering the jewels the elder ones where telling em
Now u walking round humble like u trynna shake hands?
Acting interested in conversations trynna make plans
We can smell it like Iberico, speaking with tongue of Cyrano
Laced with the devils pheromone
And I ain’t trying to embarrass homes, just bringing the facts out
Not throwing stones from a glass house
I’m a build it up until I cash out, map out ways
And move around with the mass I weight
Word to the name of god YahWae / my mind a sharp blade
Parlé with industry models sipping a latte
U can’t replace the god kid this ain’t cosplay
You can drop name all day u still corny
Catch me Shade 40 (45) looking straight gaudy
While these cookie cutter rappers tell the same story
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook]
You got the wolves and you got the sheep
Some of y’all are shepherds but most of y’all sleep
But don’t mistake it for some woke talk
Fuck around catch a fist like North Star
[Nejma Nefertiti Hook]
You got the wolves and you got the sheep
Some of y’all are shepherds but most of y’all sleep
But don’t mistake it for some woke talk
Fuck around catch a fist like North Star
[Nejma Nefertiti verse]
I’m not a rapper I’m an emcee
a wordsmith & a lyricist, mysterious
awakening the hearts of the weariest
Everybody knows I don’t fuck around
I’m serious
Said it before I know who I am
I’m not curious
struggled in this life but my bloodline is luxurious
one taste of me it never fails, she’s laughing & delirious
this world is like a grain of sand I move like I’m ethereous
As long as I’m alive, gonna get the full experience
Playing 10,000 over blunts and alcohol
Get up again & again no matter how many times I fall
stand tall even when I had my back against the wall
not the first or last regardless always give my all
Homie wasn’t acting right I had to make the call
If I told my story you wouldn’t believe the things I saw
it was so clear like the moment I knew I was so queer
seen my first love I was open I had no fear
You didn’t think that I would go & do it
You need heart for this and it’ll break no matter how you use it
Most take a big bite no ability to chew it
so concerned when it’s too late to find they’re gonna lose it
Get the best of the best then continue to abuse it
I ain’t rare I’m La Unika the only one to do this
I had to cut it off cuz I can’t pair myself wit loose lips
No more apologies, explanations, or excuses
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook]
You got the wolves and you got the sheep
Some of y’all are shepherds but most of y’all sleep
But don’t mistake it for some woke talk
Fuck around catch a fist like North Star
[Nejma Nefertiti Hook]
You got the wolves and you got the sheep
Some of y’all are shepherds but most of y’all sleep
But don’t mistake it for some woke talk
Fuck around catch a fist like North Star
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8. |
When the Soul Dies
04:07
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
My belief are clashing I don’t believe in just believing I believe in action
I believe in their core, humans have good in em
We turn to savage in the system that they put us in
To survive and to eat and keep shelter
Reinvent and slide thru... Idris Elba
Transmitting teachings of my elders
I learned to pivot moving pieces of my pelvis
When you put yourself first they say you being selfish
Who was standing up with me back when I was helpless
At least that’s how it felt hard to see clearly when
You’re the only one that’s eating did you really win?
Or that the trick, to keep us separated?
And back-sliding on health care and reparations
Sometimes discipline can feel something like deprivation
The bed I made was for me another bet I’m making
Are we living or just getting by?
Who’s standards are we living by?
Someone told me u gotta pay the right people to get a name
I was already born with a name, so were you
So who’s green light you waiting for to live your truth?
You don’t need them to believe if you believe in you ...
Stuck between a dream and being a pawn
Thin line between, being weak and being strong
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook]
Throughout my life I’ve seen some highs and some lows
And I carved a path all on my own
Out of my reach had to get back on the road
I wear it proudly on my soul
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Showered in a vinaigrette of disrespect
On the road to success few things I did regret
Should have called my moms more
Good folks around me, [I] should have made more time for
U turn into the energy u hang around
Chasing lights, everybody wanna be famous now
Just to be famous just to get a “look at me”
Smiling at the table with some crooked thieves
It’s a game of thrones, we looking for a chair to sit
For something to claim before the credits hit
Inside of an ideological ghetto
Have your reaching/ diabolical type levels
Got me stuck like lock knee incogni(to)
Wearing masks like Aya Stark and Shock G
And the violence is when you see folks live in luxury
While you sweating just to get the bare necessities
Ya mansions and ya cars don’t impress me
It’s how u treat people don’t need that always gets me
We don’t have to like each other to coexist
But it’s better that we talk so we know what is
And what is not it’s lonely at the top
Others looking for the key so they flip the lock
I burst out laughing in all my sadness
The people in power and spine so gelatinous
Y’all ain’t noticing society collapsing?
People getting sick insurance policies are lapsing
No budget for the poor crabs in a bucket
Got us warring pulling straps out on our cousins
It’s a game dozens god has a sense humor
Dark comedy, we just wanna build a future
That’s better than the past we survived thru
I shed blood for this like a Piru
Like Link in Hyrule, no magical sword tho
Just a big heart beating in my torso
Few shots got m stumbling back to the car
Looking at the moon asking who is god?
Is my voice being heard? Cause my soul hurts
Should I let her take the wheel and be my chauffeur?
Driving thru a unknown route
How am I getting back home now?
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook]
Throughout my life I’ve seen some highs and some lows
And I carved a path all on my own
Out of my reach had to get back on the road
I wear it proudly on my soul
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9. |
This is not for you
04:41
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[Napoleon Da Legend]
I’m damn if I do my whole bandwidth is taboo, Bantu
Gave y’all answers to clues
Deep healing over band-aids for wounds
Broke thru mandates and man-made rules
Plant based foods hand made tunes that make landscapes groove Handshakes and truces with rival crews, we don’t idolize dudes
Their jewelry looking like a stylized noose, social lynchings, while they vocalizing fiction, childhood born narcissism
I talk with an anarchist wisdom social drinking over
Vibes of Marxist socialism
Arrogant billionairism, you worshiping marketing dollars mark of beast followers
Oligarchy scholars
Echo chambers of clichés in the deep state, police state
Climate heat waves, the North Pole is new tropics, emaciated polar bears, Radioactive solar flares, plastic fish, internet activist
Death manufacturers, thirst trap selfies
Broke folks looking mad wealthy, pyramid scheme sketchy they can make a straight line seem edgy I still dream heavy
Without dreams I’m dead
Channel my inner Khaled my teams the best
This ain’t talent this is soul, big difference, this is black gold their goals are fictitious, rappers is entertainers who play roles to trick listeners
Mind controlled by big business
Cocky talking heads with cognitive dissonance
We the voice of dissidence
They might not like us, might be scared to promote this, douse the system with flows corrosive
Bend em out of shape like multiple sclerosis
They don’t wanna see me go full Napoleon
I’m a contradiction, anti-colonial
Anti phony gimmicks
No drums no instruments This is only lyrics
Only the real will feel this
Y’all Tap dance and get high to something else
Universal law I abide to nothing else
Don’t compare me to rappers
Your top ten lists generic facing impossible odds
Like the Mau Mau I’m fearless
Mainstream or backpack
My names rings bells from Beijing to Baghdad asthmatic still I laser beam passed that
I’m part man part marvel
I evolved passed Darwin my heart part carbon
My thoughts reach farther than profit margins
This a movement of prophets marching
Lauryn hill at her peak, Jordan in his prime
Magnus carlsen’s mind
Nonchalantness of James Harden
I’m John starks dunk at the Madison square garden
Apollo the great, Zeus The god of thunder
My apartments should be treated like an Area 51 bunker
Biggest charisma while low key
Still An enigma to those who know me
Gorilla hulk
You divulge ya life during pillow talk
We heard about ya, all universe 21st century writer
That gun talk stale, I push weight on top of scales
Opus Dei, my soul not for sale
Catching speaking Swahili mixed with French
In a gold dashiki with miraculous African strength
Exhibit pride and joy thru the worst times
You cry babies act like you felt pain for the first time
I put myself on, you can’t black ball a warhead
I storm the set and start rapping to Portishead
Y’all typing ya life I show up instead
Y’all begging for slots I make em throw up the bread
Foreign countries state to state dolo I did that
My aura allows me to take a crystal clear
Photo in a room that’s pitch black
I’m the formula, no need to look far
That’s why always inspired and I get booked far
Street or book smart
These dumb politicians know how to look smart
Y’all ain’t wake up yet?
You figured out how this world is made up yet?
Slaving everyday for crumbs? You ain’t upset?
Accepting next to nothing cause ya life sucks less?
In this society of success
Most of ya idols have rich investors
Either that or rich ancestors
Means they no different from you
Except maybe they living they truth
I ain’t giving u bars I’m giving you tools
They gonna milk u to death and get rid of you fools
We got the numbers on our side
But too busy surviving to fight this modern day apartheid
They keeping ya face prints in archives
And numbing all of our senses
That’s when the art dies
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Napoleon Da Legend Brooklyn, New York
Napoleon Da Legend Bilingual MC & Producer artist from Comoros, living in Brooklyn, New York.
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