Days of My Youth - Napoleon Da Legend

Verse 1: Napoleon Da Legend

Nothing like the smell of mom’s cooking

Something hot on the stove

Snot nose I was a trouble maker god knows never judge a

Book by its cover an album either Malcom

Was a leader as a young man

He was a thief in the land of savages

We never turn the other cheek

Underneath a tree we look for shade

And feel the summer breeze

Scheming on a come-up teachers

At school they never loved us

All too often our grades reflected our skin color

A coincidence maybe called us lethargic and lazy

My Italian shorty used to steal garments from Macy’s

Then lace me with the latest Hilfigers and Nautica

I used to try to moonwalk with

Some Michael Jackson moccasins

Scuffles and brawls playing pick-up ball

Dodging the stick up kids at the mall used to pick up broads

With corny lines young horny minds

We used to trade porn and climb

Fences and arouse our 5 senses all the time

Chorus: Napoleon Da Legend x 2

Can’t get back the days of my youth so I just think back

To days where the world would be so simple

Where we lived at

We was large day dreaming wishing on stars

Play ball kick bars and get broads

Verse 2: Napoleon Da Legend

Huh petty rivalries we used to play 21 and 33

I was a fan of Hardaway 23 and number 3

Not Penny but the UTEP two step

Those were the days before my pops

And momma dukes split

Chest burning tasting liquor for the first time

An anime fanatic a cool kid with a nerd’s mind

My first tip jam with one hand felt like the man

Mimicked moves from above the rim and NBA Jams

Listened to WU, Onyx and Pac, Biggie and Nas

De La and Tribe rap albums in the 90s were live

B-sides were the jewels house parties were the move

Hunting for shorties to pull

The chicks were wack at my school

99 cent singles from Sam Goody me and my man Doogie

Rocking Starter jackets Champion hoodies

Down in White Oak

Use to analyze the mind of white folks

Playing a thin line walking a tight rope

Chorus: Napoleon Da Legend x 1

Verse 3: Napoleon Da Legend

Nodding off fighting not to fall

Asleep while the teacher speak

Wrote a note to my crush and she rejected me

I was on blast she spread the word through the school

A humiliating lesson had to learn how to move

I wasn’t smooth then rather naïve and green

Hoop dreams my fundamentals were clean

Would cop the new released Air Forces

Would mix and match all colors Karl Kani

And Cross Colors Akademics and Enyce

Academics came easy but it wasn’t me

Only place I felt at home was rhyming over beats

Hit the movies for some inspiration with one

Ticket we would go see 3 call some chicks and go to DC

Hit up Adam’s Morgan on a Friday night

Under aged but still found a way to slide inside

Grab a chick’s number on a napkin

Couldn’t afford to drink but made due with what

We had it’s nothing for a king