1. |
Intro Theme
01:25
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2. |
Very Rare
04:15
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Game in a cobra clutch, caking like I’m a Boba Fett
Limping like I broke a leg I went forward with no regrets
Amerigo and Po we next culture and the soul in it
More and less they coalesce bout to patent the formula
Propaganda blowing up misdirecting and owning us
Some YouTubers is phony spreading info that’s erroneous
They killed Pac, Pop Smoke, Nipsey and Notorious
Dangerous to be rapper from a long line of warriors
I’m in a Golden State of mind visions of Akhenaton
Pharaohgamo Demi God, sledge hammer a demagogue
Cross my heart and hope to die been through shit I swear to god
Would've killed a weaker mind but I fought it like Megatron
Face all up the Jumbotron I played and got my hustle on
Drop a couple bombs hang it up and put a couple on
Spazzing on a bad day classics like Donny Hathaway
Grinding and gave the math away crush the planet with Gazaway hey yo
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
We put the word out now everybody’s here
Made something out nothing money dropping out the air
Came out my mama womb no one told me it would be fair
I kill what I eat like good meat I’m very rare
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Soul of a Jacobin bring pain like sado-masochist
Front like I’m a pacifist turn around and slap a kid
These cats on some rapper shit I just like the craft of this
Otherwise I rather live away from glitz and cameras
You can keep glamorous the gossip and the scandalous
I just ran the gamut took risks always a gambler
Provide and kept fridge full dollar by the fistful
Drip smooth swift moves would lie so we can miss school
Arguments and fist fights friend’s apartment lit nights
Out of town trips booking the girls that’s looking thick right?
Got it out my system now I’m on to bigger dreams
Had to dead my old self blew it to smithereens
New me new wave contracts movies
Triplex Jacuzzi yakuza style uzis
Tarantino’s visuals smoking cigars as a ritual
Karma stay karma love is love keep it reciprocal
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
We put the word out now everybody’s here
Made something out nothing money dropping out the air
Came out my mama womb no one told me it would be fair
I kill what I eat like good meat I’m very rare
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3. |
Peace Or Bombs
03:11
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Post-truth era terror para-military troop
School shootings paramedics’ esoteric moods
Married to the game trials and agony police tried bagging me I got the bag
Dead weight so many lames I had to drag
Back to back backflip adliding life like
That’s light light deep fakes is life like hindsight
Is 20-20 these jokers funny money no pun intended
Pun style futuristic wonder was that what Pun intended
Unorthodox out the box like Autobot bottles bought
Ride or die they dying to ride “que sera sera”
Peep the game Sherlock, Urlacher pertinent
Holding guns perpendicular don’t get ya person hit
Herculean feats walk in my shoes you gonna hurt ya feet
Feet first in the cesspool where all the serpents be
All slumming stuck within the same conundrum
Chasing the McGuffin no agenda backed funding
[Napoleon Da Legend chorus 2x]
It’s just a friendly game of baseball
The worlds ugly but we keep a brave face on
Ain’t no pulling punches when it’s game on
It’s all perspective we can make peace or make bombs
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
We are gods trapped inside a human shell
So fuck a music sale
Don't gotta brag about it you can tell
My mood awakens that's when rude awakens
Navigating through these pages
Will introduce ya to ya maker
That's a true statement here's proof you can tape it
Nowadays it's not music it's rumors that make you famous
I switch to Super Saiyan Blue when I flame it
It's true when I claim it dropping jewels while you entertain em
It's all perspective the cloth I'm cut from's a different texture
Touch ya core like ya ribs when starving from anorexia
Had to learn to handle pressure it's the land of the lost
That propaganda storm a have body land in a morgue
Channel the raw most of these cable channels is flawed
Directions from ya mental G.P.S.
Parameters off
Got you off path right off the bat decisions getting poor for that
Ya mind gets weak and that's happens when ya fort collapse
[Napoleon Da Legend chorus 2x]
It’s just a friendly game of baseball
The worlds ugly but we keep a brave face on
Ain’t no pulling punches when it’s game on
It’s all perspective we can make peace or make bombs
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4. |
Come Too Far
03:37
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
From casting calls to sitting on the board flagging calls
Smacking the back board was nice with that basketball
From vision boards with thumb taps on my wall
I had goals of traveling far
Was visualizing plaques on my wall
Looking to crack the code like Nat King Cole
Building my kingdom thinking
How many men got it popping and ego killed them?
Became a pimp threw my talent on the strip milked it
Hat tilted now the table tilting the dollars slid in
How to explain this feeling?
When every shot you take swishing
Nipsey marathon fulfilling Pac’s wishes
A world united where thugs leverage their politics
Feeling like Herbie Hancock playing with his collar flipped
Sandalwood fragrance in the backroom
Watching that ass move
Sexy skin mad smooth she kissed my half moon
Waking up middle of the afternoon Ubered out
Me and shorty had shoot-out making love all through the house
Picked up a care package from the city mayor
Life tailored like Italian suits gotta sift through the layers
Premieres documentaries highlighting my career
Moved outside my comfort zone
And that’s when my sight was clear
This is higher tier ionosphere high science pioneer
On the go honestly my time is rare
Gazing at my rear view mirror I stare back
And it’s a far cry from the life I had years back
Trying to tell em that
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Cruising down Georgia Avenue right passed HU
Played the campus like I attended an HBCU
Popped a Uwee down on U Street to Georgetown
Shorty rocked a two piece summertime waving like she knew me
Residential embassy that’s Normanstone drive
I learned cars bottles and swimming pools could comatose minds
Egyptian chick I knew from high school she got a nose job
S&P 500 company promoted to boss
We reminisced over some Remi and Coke and cosmopolitans
She read my zodiac chart to me like an astrologist
Told her I rap, she was fascinated “Do you make stacks?”
“Do I pay tax?” “Do bears shit in wood?” We both straight laughed
Said she has a crush but never told me before
She be messing with politicians but they corny for sure
To each his own I played the hand I was dealt
Told me she loved my music
I can relate babe I’m a fan of myself
But like I said love
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5. |
Dreams
03:33
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Napoleon Da Legend verse]
A diamond in the rough inside the pressure cooker
Set sail, going wherever the weather took us
We got dreams that father time tries to take from us
People change little patience losing faith in us
Takes a lot of guts to go against the grain
And when you shine and get some sun gotta accept the rain
Chasing money bags hoping to be safe from pain
My soul exhausted no longer wanna play the game
Chasing fame as a prescription to my mental sickness
When you caught up it’s hard to separate fact from fiction
Snakes try to gaslight you turn around then rap like you
Get a little bit of light friends from ya past write you
As for me I always been a black sheep
The path deep wouldn’t do it different if you asked me
I’m in the backseat destination somewhere
If see me in ya hood know it took
Blood sweat and tears to come there
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
On the rooftop my view so fly
Swear a 100 dollar bills were just falling from the sky
Am I living in a dream?
Got me thinking am I living in a dream?
On the rooftop my view so fly
Swear a 100 dollar bills were just falling from the sky
Am I living in a dream?
It seems real but am I living in a dream?
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Lights cameras and action glitters and gold
Flip side so many horror stories never been told
The games a sink hole where money and success an ideal
Still steel sharpen steel real recognize real
We journeymen uncharted water we sail
Not knowing the beauty or ugly that this road will reveal
Friendships are strained stress will put friction on ya brain
If you ever played it safe nah we are not the same
Sacrifices I stayed on path through the crisis
Filtered through bad advice and fought Like Attack on Titan
Then sun rays pierced through the cloud then it brightened
Was blinded but faith told me eventually I would find it
I did now I’m going all out kid
Plus I got a lot of love give
All we wanna do is live prosper and grow eat some good food
Laugh with all my people that’s a good look dude
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
On the rooftop my view so fly
Swear a 100 dollar bills were just falling from the sky
Am I living in a dream?
Got me thinking am I living in a dream?
On the rooftop my view so fly
Swear a 100 dollar bills were just falling from the sky
Am I living in a dream?
It seems real but am I living in a dream?
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6. |
Tomorrow's Not Promised
04:41
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
The landscapes competitive we all just wanna best each other
Word to Combat I see the world in technicolor
Come to think I just wanted them to accept a brother
Now I just care less that’s something I would self-discover
I left my fear right by the wayside the slave mind
Got a pay job riding the wave of the baseline
Grey skies and rain great time for a climate change
The future looking promising alive and I’m a honor it
Chronicle my life this is my audio-biography
Peers dropping like dominos guess I’m an anomaly
Stubborn to a fault I don’t listen to the non-believers
Bye Felicia ya services no longer needed
Dreamer to a fault I’m a king true or false?
That’s a label anyways I’m grown too evolved
If only truth could talk back in school as a youth I fought
I felt I had something to prove and that was food for thought
Moved to New York like a blank slate
Living with a Polish girl rented out a room and now ya man straight
Got my feet wet broke bed I didn’t sleep well
Then I did a song with a member from the Decepts
Rest In Peace Sean that stays embedded in my gratitude
Adapted grew faster just doing what I had to do
Cause I remember when I had nothing and wasn’t moving
Trusted my gut jumped off the cliff it was nothing to it
Cause
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
Tomorrow’s not promised
And there’s levels like double entendres
Watching what I feed my sub-conscious
It’s a slow process through the years
I came I saw I conquered
The truth is
Tomorrow’s not promised
And there’s levels like double entendres
Watching what I feed my sub-conscious
It’s a slow process through the years
I came I saw I conquered
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
My vulnerabilities displayed for all the world to see
Close my eyes noticing I got universe in me
That I didn’t learn from studies at universities
You’ll never score if keep shooting the rock nervously
Evangelion terrestrial pedestrian
That’s meta I’m riding my mecha like an equestrian
That’s Neo Genesis fighting against the prejudice
Money you make, IRS will get 30 percent of it
An immigrant who’s family came for a better life
Meet death at night the next day resurrected till I get it right
Page 64 stickers on my vision board
My spirit animals a lion like the house of Gryffindor
Friendships come and go
Some will die some will grow
Barely time on earth to leave a mark then it’s time to go
So I’m putting forward my best foot on my Westbrook
And strictly disregarding the guidelines from the text book
Deceptive left hook bob and weave stop and breath
And slowly building my empire like Constantine
Form the proper team of futuristic thinkers
Till we super rich on some Cuban links wisdom
But it goes beyond accumulating figures
We treasure the experience
If you anything like us that means you hearing us
My soul indigenous staring out of staircases
In the city handling my problems like mayor faces
Look in the mirror
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
Tomorrow’s not promised
And there’s levels like double entendres
Watching what I feed my sub-conscious
It’s a slow process through the years
I came I saw I conquered
The truth is
Tomorrow’s not promised
And there’s levels like double entendres
Watching what I feed my sub-conscious
It’s a slow process through the years
I came I saw I conquered
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[Awon verse]
I put it all in Gods hands this is part of Gods plan
Hip hop raised me up from a boy to a man
Held me down in the can or on the block with the grams
Now I rap for the fans who do the knowledge understand
Intelligence and intellect is what you should seek
You reap what you sew as you birth what you speak
Stand on your own because a soul is never cheap
It ain’t about where you been it’s where you go when you sleep
I lived a full life I done did it for the streets
the jeeps and all my peeps so the cipher complete
The stakes heightened time to enlighten what you inciting
Inspiration or riots because these entertainers lying
I feed the masses with these poems out of a passage
Of life written by experience which is a master
The mic miracle straight forward there’s no subliminal
Hip hop immortal a 100 years from my pinnacle
[Napoleon Da Legend & Awon hook]
Seen a lot of trends come
Seen a lot of trends go still
Hip hop immortal
A 100 years from my pinnacle
Seen a lot of artists pop
I seen a lot flop
Hip hop immortal
A 100 years from my pinnacle
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Yo soulful like the blood of a Taino
I’m a one eyed man traveling the land of blind people
Don Cheadle in a blockbuster sequel
Got me stuck between two evils
Off of my flow and too cerebral
I used to read through magazines and dream of a lifestyle
Iced out like my favorite rappers
Only seeing highlights of the high life
Even though behind the scenes
The truth grimmer when ya young it’s hard to see through the glitter
When the gold turn to plastic and a flow can turn classic
When ya preconceptions die
Some never learn to get passed em
And it ain’t easy cause stubbornness is not subtle
Subs can turn to bloody scuffles gotta use ya gut muscle
Stuck with my hustle when it wasn’t cool
So before you envy what I got
Think about the shit I went through to make it pop
And it’s not rocket science or mystic
And if you don’t know how to read through the lines
You must have missed it
[Napoleon Da Legend & Awon hook]
Seen a lot of trends come
Seen a lot of trends go still
Hip hop immortal
A 100 years from my pinnacle
Seen a lot of artists pop
I seen a lot flop
Hip hop immortal
A 100 years from my pinnacle
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
I’m an amalgam of Malcom and Marley
Shaq and Barkley, Springsteen and Paul McCartney
The speech is godly, the uniform is human form
Black unicorn the karmic level I’m at is rated Buddhist porn
My pseudonym was born on basketball courts
Masterful thoughts let my life take its natural course
Maximum force they try to stop us with fibs and all types of gossip
Try to profit through crisis it’s just a microcosm
More than twice I seen the bottom and I climbed out
Shout out to the sun for shining I had to grind out
This numerology chicks told me I was I’m number one
Losing is cumbersome winners in my circumference
Thoughts of abundance sipping coffee up in London
Pulling stunts ducking bullets from guns looking for funding
Out the venue stumbling drunk, this life is humbling
Is it all pre-destined or random? Got me wondering
[La Bruja & Napoleon Da Legend hook]
*Chant*
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Every day we wake up ready that war we be waging
Northface and court cases coordinating tours around nations
Yellow white and brown faces and it sounds racist
So many artists getting lit without a foundation
And then the hype dies its lights out goodbye
That was good try ya careers just flat lined and died
Never had a budget yet I get wild numbers
How long could you survive after the system malfunctions?
Malnutrition french fries and fried chicken
Get ya mouth fixed all you do is spit cow shit
I’m on the couch lit quarantine politics
Knowledge the etymology my mind shine like halogen
You’ll probably read about it I’m Buddha under the Bo tree
The streets promote me figured the hack out like Oakley
Sharp like my obliques
Yogi I meditate in wild poses
Drawing you a picture with a child’s focus
[La Bruja & Napoleon Da Legend hook]
*Chant*
[La Bruja outro]
*Mantras*
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9. |
Superfly
04:33
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[Napoleon Da Legend Hook x2]
Pimp Is in the blood but ya heart pump Kool-Aid
I put the game down tight like Boulet
One good bottom and another few hotties
Doing numbers but they mood stay snobby
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Pimp without the gold teeth motif
World renowned steal ya girl like Mo Cheeks
Low key never rocking flashy leathers
I’m old school pulling chicks like it’s ‘97
Po Machiavellien I’m the best who you telling?
Build an empire that’ll make Tony Starks jealous
Got this cutie in a spell she knew well drop a jewel
Sell you fire while walking through hell
Rock a suit well might even use a cane of something
Make shorty pull her purse out
Like she paying for something
Spirit animal’s a lion nah never rock furs
Tap her friend like a gentleman but I’m a dog first
Million dollar worth of game if you wanna talk worth
Youngins wanna run game gotta learn to walk first
Cyrano Don Juan Demarco all it take’s a convo
She sexy but I like em smart though
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook x2]
Pimp Is in the blood but ya heart pump Kool-Aid
I put the game down tight Like Boulet
One good bottom and another few hotties
Doing numbers but they mood stay snobby
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
From New York to Cali black Salvador Dali
Attract thick meat like a matador rally
Chatter raw that’s right up my ally
Take a little break take a date up to Bali
Say what up to Marie yo I miss that chick
Had to clip her though Po pharaoh live that rich
In a drought like a bad check I bounce back fast
Play the angles on shorty got that down Pat
Whip purple and black the winner circle jack
A perfect ass gave her game she worked it back
Nonchalantly they praise me like Gandhi in fact
My blonde walking round like she got a bomb in the back
Drinking cognac V.S.O. Dom in the back
Holding a glass with my other hand palming her ass
Stunning looker for the right price I’ll show to book her
Looking fly suit and tie superfly Jimmy Snuka
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook x2]
Pimp Is in the blood but ya heart pump Kool-Aid
I put the game down tight Like Boulet
One good bottom and another few hotties
Doing numbers but they mood stay snobby
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Mikhel Gorbachev wallets Michelle Obama on the side bopping
Dropping projects since the global warming started
It’s so cathartic sowing seeds inside my garden
Growing out of bondage you can’t knock it when it so honest
Just the illest building together
Fair-weather friends get the Mayweather
Just for fair measure
I’m a rare treasure in the midst of crisis I just get nicer
Going over heads like original M Byson
Michael Eric Dyson and Allen Iverson
Both in Georgetown converting the fourth down
Now we tour bound straight line not up nor down
Mature sounds for adult motherfuckers who love it
We dug in a little deeper while they scratched the surface
A lot people back to work but still a lack of purpose
These rappers catching L’s McPherson I’m back murking
Everything I tap like it’s my last day earth it’s that urgent
[Napoleon Da Legend hook 2x]
Do what you gotta do god
One or two jobs a side hustle what you do to survive
They try to make it seem glamorous
But behind the scenes it scandalous
It’s time to man up shut up and handle it
For real king
Do what you gotta do god
One or two jobs a side hustle what you do to survive
They try to make it seem glamorous
But behind the scenes it scandalous
It’s time to man up shut up and handle it
[Awon verse]
Gorbachev paper showtime Lakers
Bulletproof wallets As-salamu alaykum
Knew the mathematics verbatim
Back when I was a teenager with a pager
and residue on my razor
Gem star that is p89 across ya cabbage
Identified as a savage
Even in the madness I prayed to a higher power
I had to balance the scale or let my soul go sour
The conflict of the lifestyle and the conscious
Knowing that most of my niggaz have died over nonsense
Hit the hardest like Camacho and Vargas
Salute the generals who taught us
We should march for the martyrs
I’m a spark up the gold Leaf
Tell my people don’t sleep
Do the knowledge get up and stand or don’t eat
I go deep to the center of the earth
With knowledge of self I’m the master of my universe
[Napoleon Da Legend hook 2x]
Do what you gotta do god
One or two jobs a side hustle what you do to survive
They try to make it seem glamorous
But behind the scenes it scandalous
It’s time to man up shut up and handle it
For real king
Do what you gotta do god
One or two jobs a side hustle what you do to survive
They try to make it seem glamorous
But behind the scenes it scandalous
It’s time to man up shut up and handle it
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11. |
Everything Fresh
03:22
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
I went from flat broke hit the plateau defacto
Could always rap though snuck in through the back door
Then I started spazzing for stacks though that crack flow
Kakarot smack foes Ragnarok black Thor
Back to my roots like Black Thought to them I take my hat off
This bound to catch on like facing Covid with ya mask off
This is mad cloth Jim Duggin hacksaw
You that soft? Domes I hack off then hustle packs off
It’s that simple…
This the last straw
Was cast off now I’m back like Sashquash
I’m far passed the norm like a Capricorn rap porn
Swing the pen like McEnroe
I’m way past woke
Packed the venue to the last row
Shut it down and close it like Mac Pro
Then I tease you with Nirvana we bring that close
Ya can taste it and feel it it’s Amerigo and Po
Hey yo
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
My capacity to slay shit will leave you incapacitated
Vaccinated with my logo branded in ya skin
Liquid sword style Katana blade slashing ya limb
Broke my shackles then I took the path of a king
These dudes fast food swipe em off as I drive through
Rocking a fly suit rolling with a versatile crew
While they stuck in one spot making moves out of town
Real killers move in silence drop albums with a sound
Peep the spin they want us to win but we still find away
Shoving deals in our face
Our lives we gotta sign away
To shine like McConaughey
Building ya persona making of a star
Bitch you taking space my car
Give you the skinny on some Kate Moss shit
You know the séance lit
Was a fan now I’m getting paid off this
From Japan all the way back to Brooklyn
Serving y’all a dish real fresh got another batch cooking
Good looking
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12. |
Oda Nobunaga
03:29
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Yo Nomadic traveler toe tag a haggler
Samurai vernacular the erudite trafficker
Andromaque de Scythian my battery pack is lithium
My lineage goes back to the times of the Corinthians
It’s the perennial punishing finishing move
With my mistress cooking ton of Dominican food
Yasuke Chikara I’m a walking powder keg
Plant a ten foot pole as a display for a coward’s head
Playing Sudoku disloyal friend perform Seppuku
Goku with the beaucoup bucks without the Susu
Soul food eat before the war we go through
We bend the old rules and market this music with higher morals
Skip the tutorials jump into the action egotistically
Once I did better some people start to get pissed at me
Things I used to think were difficult became simple
The human brain fickle what comes easy gains little
I speak in plain riddles explode in the paint no dribbles
Single slash make the blood down ya nose trickle
Miyamoto Musashi with the 2 swords
Blades slice ya heart out ya chest what you move for?
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook x2]
Not knowing is Buddha not seeing is a flower
Gold coins to a cat not moving is power
Under the cherry blossom where the sky at the bottom
Ten people ten colors you’ll know when I shot em
Wiser than a grey hair on a monk and a bear drunk
Pork belly ass punks yo we tear chunks
Of lungs and intestines and we send em to intensives
Then go home, drink a tea and sit there pensive
Reevaluate the deeds I did
My last supper with a supple piece of beef I bit
So Zen-like hopping in a Benz with old friends
Bumping Stevie Wonder reminiscing on my old sins
I took many lives to get my name known
Soiled by the blood of the devil since day old
Walk strong like Bok Choy root
Koi fish blue fuck around destroy this fool
Gonzo Hattori Hanzo shorty in my condo
Akira Toriyama in the back playing bongos
Ichiban Po beat Tao Pai Pai
Then abruptly leave the scene with no bye byes
[Napoleon Da Legend Hook x2]
Not knowing is Buddha not seeing is a flower
Gold coins to a cat not moving is power
Under the cherry blossom where the sky at the bottom
Ten people ten colors you’ll know when I shot em
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13. |
Return to Crooklyn
05:06
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[Napoleon Da Legend intro]
B.R. Double O K. L. Y. N
B.R. Double O K. L. Y. N
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Word to Gil Scott
The Revolution starts in the heart
No diss to Jill Scott
Brooklyn ain’t a walk in the park
School to prison pipeline they smoking pipes on the Ave
When guns shoot and knives stab you can’t get ya life back
Nah haggle at the store get the price slashed in half
Kings plaza dollar vans on the strip like Gaza
Billboards with liquors ads peep the bigger math
Petty beefs tit for tat yo we live for cash
Must be something in the tap water
Disrespectful energy we bring it back towards ya
That’s reciprocity
They speculate on property
It’s a game of monopoly where oligarchs exploit the poverty
From red lining cross the yellow blue and red line
Legendary kingpins are dead or doing fed time
The best rappers you know live there curse and a gift there
It’s mixed bag many did that and got big there
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said its where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Vultures swoop to water down culture and truth
Dressed in suits contaminate and poison our food
And uproot foundations we laid
Cause that minimum wage synonymous to population enslaved
Corporations paid wintertime pavement is cold
Fashion avant-guard Brooklyn Nets logo be the avatar
Grimy kids try to sabotage you gotta know the codes
Some will overdose others seek the Holy Ghost
With goals of climbing up the totem pole
Bet you ten mil every 10 years we known for bending social roles
Lofty dreams turn to broken hopes and vice versa
Careful what you wish you bound to find the right person
From the Navy Yard Bushwick to Carnarsie
To Brownsville late night vigils that honor Sean P
Trends die ladies fly new babies is born
Raised in the hustle in radiant form
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said its where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Cops patrol the block while we socialize
Lotta scammers to survive gotta recognize and know the lies
When tensions in the air we know the vibes
You better dip before these bullets make ya choke on ya pride
Caribbean flags for Jouvert a new day for
Another dollar in the bank plus a new decor
Corner pocket hit the 8 ball mental napalm
Nuke shelters under buildings case they drop an A Bomb
Cop Modelos from bodegas while our phones capture data
Friends turn their backs names appear on affidavits
Split second calculations that’s second nature
I peeped from my peripheral the way they heads was shaking
Feature presentations girls dressed quasi-naked
Bass thumping out cars my inner child awakens
It’s where I got my start at hard facts
Through life Africa’s inside my soul
Brooklyn’s where the heart at
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said its where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
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14. |
Serpico
03:11
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
I don’t blame them for emulating
The Po formula
Perform like a sorcerer the moral of the story is that
I feel in love with the allure of the street
They know me for the music otherwise I’m sort of discreet
You know the majority sleep but that can change fast
Take it as a payback I ain’t ya slave I gotta make stacks
Clearing out a whole career path
On a Maclaren and leer jet
Hearing threats when my ears pass
I ain’t stressed that’s the games we signing up for
Still going already sculpting my name up on the Rushmore
And it’s a Bloodsport to get the bag
No sleep put in work till mad plaques decorate the lab
Ain’t no flags for the foul shit
And stripes don’t appear on outfits
The most pussy be the loudest
It ain’t about right or wrong it’s what I’m drawn to
I never claimed to be the best that’s what the songs do
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
One time for the survivors
If you doing all you can to stay alive and
When they try to put you down still inspired
Still we end up proven em wrong in spite of
Out of the blue I seeing em sampling anime too
Bantam weight looking for labels to validate you
This is culture you wonder why ya friend ghost ya
You a doja to them you just another token
I’m a shogun chop it up like you sitting with Rogan
Black ronin make the crowd jump like Shonen
Sprinkling jewels meticulously interwoven
Political like Snowden and slash Logan
My scars heal up charged up bars fill up
At concerts draw a mob soon as the car pull up
I’m in another league dropping every couple weeks
Guess it’s the hustler in me I’m a let the numbers speak
Adolph Reed knowledge just fulfilling prophecy
Smash the catalogue exit the game then live privately
Somewhere remote where I don’t gotta wear a coat
With a herd of goats standing my ground like Serpico
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
One time for the survivors
If you doing all you can to stay alive and
When they try to put you down still inspired
Still we end up proven em wrong in spite of
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15. |
The World Changed
03:37
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[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Slave to my desires pulled by society’s wires
Maniacal mind finding myself confined by time
In hindsight out of sight is out of mind right
Our body’s finite regulated at 98 Fahrenheit
The whole economic system could crumble off a parasite
We all seen it yet they still label me an erudite
Another day in paradise with death at every corner
Dodged it so many time I got a legendary aura
With the blessings of the ancestors who we owe our lives to
Needed sober eyes to see the truth did what I need to do
Are we in control? Are we just batteries?
To feed the system fueling it, running off of calories
Anarcho-oligarchs and hierarchies
Pyramids malignant cells inside of biopsies
Psy-ops from the CIA blind hate
Play by play manipulated day by day
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
The world changed
The world changed
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Stuck at the train station tired and drunk
Crowds panicking running some dude fired a gun
Instinctively ducked cut the corner fled out the exit
Cop a dollar slice of pizza while this shorty texting
Asking me when I get there no clothes policy
When I step thru the door we put an “x” all formalities
Slight cat allergy got me sneezing made me a sandwich
More whiskey getting poured as I vanished
Vagabond don’t know where to call home
24 hours awake hurting like a gall stone
Ripley Grier rehearsal time gotta a show to do in March
Gotta make it through the dark only show the truest parts
Financially it’s kind of dry seems like snakes I’m surrounded by
Getting suicidal thoughts I can fuck around and die
Scratch that naw gotta hold it together
The sun’ll come out and shine its light
No need to dumb out even though the world changed
[Napoleon Da Legend hook]
The world changed
The world changed
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[Napoleon Da Legend intro]
B.R. Double O K. L. Y. N
B.R. Double O K. L. Y. N
[Napoleon Da Legend verse]
Word to Gil Scott
The Revolution starts in the heart
No diss to Jill Scott
Brooklyn ain’t a walk in the park
School to prison pipeline they smoking pipes on the Ave
When guns shoot and knives stab you can’t get ya life back
Nah haggle at the store get the price slashed in half
Kings plaza dollar vans on the strip like Gaza
Billboards with liquors ads peep the bigger math
Petty beefs tit for tat yo we live for cash
Must be something in the tap water
Disrespectful energy we bring it back towards ya
That’s reciprocity
They speculate on property
It’s a game of monopoly where oligarchs exploit the poverty
From red lining cross the yellow blue and red line
Legendary kingpins are dead or doing fed time
The best rappers you know/ live there curse and a gift there
It’s mixed bag many did that and got big there
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said it’s where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
[Skyzoo verse]
Brooklyn New York City where we paint murals of Biggie
And Pop Smoke, and Sean Price, for the love of memories
Flag in the dirt that everyone wanna rep for
Outta towners screaming it, vowing not to be left off
My block was “do the right thing” come to life
In the summer you shoot to the store and you shooting dice
2 slices a daily routine, like if my hood was on my shirt
And my beliefs is where my radio be
You do the math, meanwhile, I be on a park bench
Refilling this cup of Henny until the dark hits
The vibes good but keep an eye where the narcs went
‘Cause new Brooklyn will call them and get us all clipped
But shit is cool, we the county of kings,
Where the love buries the hate on account of the rings
Do or die in the field, know the pride is real
And this is ours, regardless of what they dying to build, B R
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said it’s where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
[Awon verse]
It was Brooklyn hospital I took my first breath
In Fort Greene Projects I took my first steps
85 Navy Walk I heard my first shots
My side of town was known for red tops
I first met Biz in the Albee Square
Project barbershop Dennis use to cut my hair
Slide up to Crown Heights, hung out on Park Place
My cousin Andy showed me how to pop a willy my ace
Mum lived on Sterling back when pops had the Porsche
My park was birthing Gods and Earths in the Fort
New York the Golden era, a relic of Reaganomics
Before the gentrification and renovation of projects
Gabby did the fronts, I remember free lunch
Ol heads played chesswhile the youngins smoked blunts
Pissy elevator stench, Gods cipher on the bench
Chased the paper in Virginia but Brooklyn Represent
[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
B R double O K L Y N
King’s County NY from beginning to end
What’s known ain’t gotta be said it’s where the greatest sparks
Spread love that’s Brooklyn u know in ya heart
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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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