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We’ve told you here and there to pay attention to Napoleon Da Legend, but — as they say — real talk? If you’re in the market for classic-but-not-dated sounding, East Coast-styled hip-hop, with an intelligent, lyrical wordsmith as comfortable speaking on various ills of the world as he is dismantling the lesser skill of a verbal opponent, there’s a mixtape you need to steal right now.
The follow up to his acclaimed July Steal This Mixtape release, NDL drops another forceful, soulful, thoughtful 20-track examination of life through music.
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Steal This Mixtape Too easily adds to Napoleon Da Legend’s building reputation as a leader of the anti-intellectualism-in-rap faction growing frustrated with the direction of mainstream hip-hop music.
“It’s so important,” Napoleon Da Legend told Huffington Post Black Voices’ Jacques Morel Jr. about the importance of using his music to spreading messages to uplift the culture. “That’s what I’m here for. There’s definitely a message that I want to transmit to people, to empower people.”
With complex-but-highly-understandable lyrics, commanding voice, precise flow, a solid ear for exactly which beats to steal, and quotes from fellow Napoleons like Napoleon Hill and clips from folks as diverse as Deepak Chopra and Sean Price, Napoleon Da Legend does just that, tapping into a perfect storm of influences creating the exact type of hip-hop music hip-hop needs right now.