Napoleon, Tupac's partner in Rap [Archive] - Ummah.com

salik zahid

24-12-06, 03:56 AM

jazakkallah.

someone sent this to me in an email about a month ago. Alhamdulillah it nice to see how far brother mutah has come. I met him a few years ago and watched him perform a few songs with aman, this is when he was still doing music, I was a brand new muslim, didn't know anything of what I know know. subhanallah.

That interview Napoleon did at hitemup.com was what opened me up to Islam. I never even heard about it before. I felt like all my answers had been answered because I never knew there was a religion where you only prayed to God the creator of the worlds. subhanallah.

below is the napoleon interview form hitemup.com if you haven't ever read it.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: HitEmUp.com Exclusive Interview with Napoleon
*Intro*

Jon - HitEmUp.com: We might as well get into it with the question most people want to know right now... What's the situation with the Outlawz?
Napoleon: Well, I really, I don't know what's going on with the Outlawz, I ain't hollered at them cats in a while, I ain't hollered at them cats in awhile so you know, I don't really know what's going on with them.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: What's your situation, what's your relationship with the Outlawz right now?
Napoleon: Right now, I'm no longer a member of the Outlawz, but, I'm a Outlaw for life, cause that's me, I brought too much to that name so no man can take that away from me, you know what I mean. Because I brought a lot to the table with the Outlawz and they know that. So right now, they doing their thing and I'm doing my thing.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: What happened with that situation and what caused you to leave?

Napoleon: The situation, that made me leave, I feel like, I really feel like Allah planned that day bro you know what I mean. First of all, before, it wasn't a situation, but, it was just a lot of stuff that, you know me and the Outlawz were talking about, and it was jus like the people that they had around doing the Tupac footage at the time. Like for example, the Tupac album that just came out, Better Dayz, everything that I said in Arabic, people erased, you know what I mean. And it ain't have nothing to do with the Outlawz, it was just the people that was around.

But I really feel like Allah is best of the Planners. So it basically was like damn man, if I don't have no freedom on a Tupac album, man, it's basically like what the hell is going on right now , you know what I mean. So I can't say what I want to say on a Pac album, because of the people that was around that situation. And I was a little hot at the situation man, but as far as the way we left it, I took a trip to Mecca. Alhamdulillah (thanks to Allah) did my Hajj (pilgrimage), Mashallah (what Allah wishes is beautiful) , matter of fact I did my Hajj in February, and when I got back it was jus like I felt like my heart was so pure, the Outlawz was on tour at the time, and I couldn't see myself going on tour to do them songs, to do that stuff of the past, with the cussing, and all that stuff. At the time, it was like I felt so pure, you know what I mean. And why couldn't do it. Right now and I feel that when I curse now when I do some raps and some curses might come out. But that's me now. But when I first came back from Mecca I didn't wanna do that you know what I mean. I didn't want to go on tour, so I called them and I said... you know I told them I couldn't go on tour, and this and this I told them you know you all have a good tour, y'all do your thing, and they just left it at that, "okay", you know what I mean, it wasn't no, you know it was as simple as that.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: As far as Better Dayz, and the songs that were edited, didn't that have a lot to do with religion?
Napoleon: I don't really know man, but how you gonna go from, this that I was saying man, how we going to go from a group called the Outlawz, when Pac was living, we were saying the hell with everybody bro. That's how I had the name Napoleon, that's why we had the name EDI, that's why we had the name, um Kastro, you know what I mean, and Fatal. That's why we had all these names, Kadafi. We had these names for a reason. We came up in a group that said whatever was on our minds. Then we come out, all of a sudden a couple years later, Pac dead, they're letting people say "no we're not going to say this". And I'm like, c'mon man, how, what kinda group, cause I'm an Outlaw to the fullest man, I don't want people to get it twisted just cause I went to Hajj and now I'm a Muslim, to me, I feel even danger than ever, you know what I mean, dangerous than ever, it's just that I'm more clever now, you feel me.
And I'm like how are you going to go from a group of Outlawz to now we can't say this, and what we wanna say, you don't wanna say this, you don't wanna say, everything I say in Arabic they wanna take off, if say something about Bush they wanna take it off. That's me, right? I'm always going to be a man that's going to speak my mind. You know what I mean. And I was like, I ain't like that, and being in that situation, that was just, that had me hot man. I just knew, I just knew, that's when something hit me and said man, it'll never be the same no more, Pac's not here, it'll never be the same, once it got to a point where we Outlawz and we gotta watch what we say on a Tupac album, you know what I mean. And that ain't what we about, you know what I mean. I don't want people to get it twisted, just cause I'm not gonna curse no more, stuff like that, like I said on my records, they still street, they still thugged out, to me it's even worse than ever, to be honest with you, just more clever, just that I'm a Muslim now, being a Muslim, it ain't no mo better a souljah than a Muslim.
So right now I'm at the highest level of where I'm trying to get, you feel me. Before I look at it like I was a knucklehead kicking up dust, now I feel like I'm more on an OG status kicking up dust, because I'm a Muslim now. We got rules to being a Muslim. And it ain't no stronger souljah than a Muslim. You know what I mean? So a lot of people get it twisted, oh my God he's a Muslim now, he's soft and all that, let me tell you something bro, like I said earlier, let a cat run up on me you know, I don't got nothing to prove dog, but let a cat run up on me and see if I'm all talk, simple as that.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: So what direction do you want to take with your music now?

Napoleon: Right now my music got a message like I said man, it's like my music is more of where I feel like being a solo artist and being in the Outlawz I couldn't say what I wanted being in the Outlawz because it's a group thing. You know gotta ride to a group. Now that I am solo I could do the music I wanna do. Instead of followin their way they could follow me. The music that I am doing now is still street bro, it's still basically street, it's more positive. I mix it up I got something for the females on my album, I got something for the street niggaz on my album, I got something for the Muslims on my album. I never gonna go all the way to the left, that ain't me, because no matter what, it's still in my blood. It's who I am, know what I mean. Like I said Islam just made me stronger, the character that I was, Islam just made it stronger it's like I was missing a brick, and now that I got that brick, my house is complete, bro that's what Islam gave me so it's like nothing changed. I don't know why people think it's changed but nothing changed and they'll see, they'll see, my music is more fire than ever.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: What record label are you on now then?

Napoleon: My record label is ICU, but I got three major record deals on the table right now, three major record deals, one of them I turned down, cause it was way to the left, it wasn't what I want. And it's real crazy like how I, after I came back from my Hajj I never even went shopping my deal, it's like people been calling me, it's like I been going to meetings, I got people that want to put me in movies, it's like all this stuff, Alhamdulillah, that happened, and I start sayin Allah Akbar (Allah is Great), you know what I mean, cause I got all these things coming towards me, I got three deals, actually I'll say two cause one of them I shut down, they looking real good, and they major deals, you know what I mean, I'm taking my time, cause I want people to sweat me man, you know I want people to come at me. And I'm a cat no matter what, I'm gonna get the deal that I want, because I have Allah on my side bro, so no matter what, I'm submitting dog, all I do is do my music, sit back, and I know that Allah gonna bring the deal that I want, know what I mean.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: What record label was it that you shot down?
Napoleon: I can't even say it, I won't even say it, know what I mean, I really won't say it.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: What's you relationship with Fatal right now?
Napoleon: Fatal, we... me and Fatal talked a couple weeks ago, we chopped it up, you know what I mean. Fatal always in Jersey, around cats, and you know first thing he said "Mu you, out of the Outlawz, you was the one I really had, you know, always gonna have love for, know what I mean" And me and Fatal chop it up. We jus chopped, we talked, left it at that. He doing his solo, I'm doing my solo, maybe in the future you'll hear me and the brother on some things, you know what I mean.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: What are your thoughts on his joining Ja Rule's label?
Napoleon: All the power to him, more power to him bro. Man even, if and when, the Outlawz, they get a deal, I heard they got some deals on the table, more power to them, you know what I mean. It's that I'm a man, it's enough money for everybody, I want everybody to get they deals, because I really think even I'm not in the Outlawz, the Outlawz still deserve what they got coming, I feel like they deserve what they got man, they still gonna be a high powered group bro, they still was a trendy group man. So I know that the Outlawz gonna get what they deserve. Just like Fatal gonna get what he deserve man, he came from Pac man, he put it down man, so no matter what, I feel like we gonna get what we deserve, you feel me.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: Yeah, yeah. What's the status of the Napoleon/Jayo Felony album that was being talked about awhile ago?

Napoleon: Man, I don't even know man. Somebody called it a deal, I'm not even thinking about that, you know what I mean. I think Jayo Felony had somebody that was gonna do the deal, but I ain't talked with him since I came back from Mecca. So, like I said man, I been doing some FI-RE, when I say that now and I can vouch, that I'm coming with some heat, and I think a lot of people are gonna be surprised bro, I really do. Cause I think a lot of people like oh my God, he's a Muslim now, and he's not going to do this, but the funny part about it like I don't know when you cuss, I'm like I got something inside of me that's, I guess that's what it was, Islam, cause if you got Islam, you got everything, put it like that, can't nothing stop you. You got the Deen (The Path) in your heart can't no one and nobody stop you. And that's for real bro. You na mean.
So it's like my music, they gonna hear it. It's still street, and it's still thugged out, to the fullest man. To the fullest. I got to the level that I always wanted to get, I know how to make records now, I can literally say that I can make a record, that the radio will spin, right now the radio for all the fans in Los Angeles, Power 106 gonna world premier one of my singles, it's a song I did that's dedicated to Tupac that a lot of people love, you know what I mean, a song dedicated to Pac. And Power 106 is gonna world premier it this week and my deal ain't even close yet. And they called me with this stuff, so, everything's Alhamdulillah man.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: Well I know a lot of the fans are looking forward to a solo album, Scriptures from a Thugz Point of View, is that still the title?

Napoleon: That's what it... I might change it, but that's what it is right now.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: If you had your ideal situation, you signed a deal, how quickly after signing do you think the album would be released?

Napoleon: Basically, it really it depends, after I play this single, on the radio... I gotta see, how people... how it's going to affect people, cause the label wanna know, if um, if I had a hot-hot single, which I'm going to say this Tupac thing is going to do it, I don't really want it but everybody else saying you should put the Pac single out first, if I had a hot-hot single they could get to shooting a video and do that ASAP. But it also includes whenever I close the deal man. Cause I'm really, really trying to be patient, and I always find out patient is the best thing, I'm not gonna be like, ok I finally got a major record label deal on the table, lemme sign it, that's not what I'm going to do because, that's basically telling me, I been patient all this time, look what I got, being patient I get exact...everything I'll need everything that's coming for me.

So mostly I wanna be patient man cause I'm not bout to come out with a solo album, and they don't treat me, cause I really feel like I'm a star, a super-star, man that's the difference, there's some people that just regular rappers and some people that are super-stars, there's some people that stand out, and some people that just don't stand out, some people shine some people don't shine, one thing about me I feel like I was one of the shining stars in the Outlawz. Regardless, you know what I mean. So I'm not going to rush to a label that's going to throw me out there, I need somebody that's going to at least put millions up, 1.5 or a million, behind my project, know what I mean. Promote it to the fullest, so I'ma be patient to get what I want. It's like I got people from...I'm about to get married May 2nd, Inshallah on that, then after the honeymoon I'm going to the US and Jersey I'm going to play the streets, get on all the mixtapes. Actually I got a song about to get on mixtapes this week, I did a song with the Diplomats. You heard of the Diplomats?

Jon - HitEmUp.com: Yeah.

Napoleon: K, well I did a song with the Diplomats, actually we been doing a lot of songs man, we collaborating a lot. You know I'm out there...did somethin on the Jim Jones album, um, the Diplomats did somethin on my album, you know they interested in me to the fullest, you know what I mean, them the lil homeboys, they out here they come chill and we just kick it, and we got a lot of collaborations we doin together and that song about to hit that mixtape soon. The song I did with them cats. I got Devin the Dude on the album, and I got my little brother, Mussamil, he changed his name to Mussamil, and um basically that's about it man. I'm just trying to do my thing bro.

Actually me and Mussamil we been doin a lot of work together, I just came back from Utah last night. I been doing a lot of shows bro, I been out there ripping it up for a minute, actually in June, I'm going to Germany, and Switzerland, and I'm going to be out there you know what I mean, I'm going to be out there with Sean-Paul, and another cat named Taz, a Los Angeles artist, I'm going to be out there putting it down for like a month, and my little brother will be out there with me.

Basically everything I have is a Alhumdulillah, everything's beautiful. And to be honest with you, if it wasn't beautiful, it's still Alhumdulillah. No matter what Allah want for me I'm going to accept it no matter what, and if my 2 or 3 deals on a record label fall right now, I'ma still say Alhumdulillah cause nothing effects me man. None of that matters to me man, my main thing is to get to paradise and try to help Muslims around the world, that's my thang bro. But right now that's how my situation is, no matter what I got a one track mind, that mean Alhumdulillah. If I go outside right now and my house is on fire and my car's on fire, I'ma still say Alhumdulillah. That's praising Allah cause nothing matters to me nothing can happen to me that He don't want to happen, you know mean, so I know the deal that go through, is whatever Allah want for me, whatever happen to me, if I sell a million records, Allah want it, if I sell 5 records, Allah want it. So whatever Allah want for me, that's all I can accept man, nothing else matters, you feel me.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: So when are you coming up to tour in Vancouver?

Napoleon: Actually I met some brothers when I was in Mecca from Vancouver, some beautiful Muslim brothers, some beautiful brothers, I'm going to keep in touch and Inshallah (God willing) I'll be out there. Man I'm bout to be everywhere pretty soon, Inshallah man. It's like I'm putting it down, I don't even sleep no more man, since I came back from Mecca I been working hard, really really working hard, I just got picked up my a big management company that manage a lot of big, big actors, a lot of actors, I don't wanna say the name, I got picked up by them last week, like I said, I'm going to get into the movies, we putting all the paper work now, it's a big, big company out of Beverley Hills. So it's like, I'm going to start getting into the movies, I'm gonna start, I'm doing a lot man. Like I said, Allah just got a plan, Allah the Best of the Planners, man I leave everything in Allah's Hands. Man whatever He wants, you know, whatever Allah wants I'm going to do it man. So whatever He brings to the table, I have to accept it, no matter what man.
And it's funny man, cause I talk to my home girl Sharmeen, sister Sharmeen Assalamualaiakum (peace be unto you), and when I say Salaam I'm talkin to my sister Sharmeen. And she was telling me how cats, for the longest man they on the Internet and they saying you not real nomore, and none of that affects me, I never jumped on it, I was never like, let me go get on the Internet, cause I know me, know what I mean. I laugh at that kinda stuff, at least they talking about me, at least they ain't forget about a brother. Even if they saying I'm not real no more, at least they saying my name. I must be real enough for them to keep saying my name. What cats don't realize is nothing changed about me, like I said, let a brother run up, and see what happens, simple as that man.

Like I said, can't nothing, and no one, and I can say this with all my heart, can't nothing and no one stop a true Muslim that do his Salaat (daily prayer) 5 times a day. Can't nothing, no-thing, but Allah. Can't nothin happen to me that Allah don't want. No man can do nothing to me, I'm not superman, just feel like I got the best thing on my side, I have Allah, can't nothing stop me bro, unless Allah want it to happen man. If you got 3 guns against my face, you ain't doin nothing to me unless Allah want it to happen man. And that's the best plan...that's the best thing to have on your side is Allah, a lot of cats don't got that man. So these cats running their mouth, I got something you don't have, how can you stop me, how can you do some harm to me and I got Allah. You na mean, if Allah don't want nothin to harm me they can't harm me man. That's the mentality I have now, and that's the true soldier man.

The Mecca thing, the Islam thing, just molded me to the man that I needed to be, it just molded me to a true soldier, it made me a better person man, it just got me to where I don't drink, I don't smoke no more, you know what I mean, I don't drink, I don't smoke, a better father to my son, I'm a better person to people, I always have a smile, I'm happy, I never thought... man I was a suicidal at once , I didn't think life could get like this bro. I always had a hole in my heart, and I thought it was because my mother and father got murdered, you know but now that I got Allah, I feel good bro. So I'm happy 24/7, you know what I mean, I'm saying I never, ever thought life could get like this, and I'm a true soldier man, I'm not even having sex till I get married. And that's a true soldier, cats say how can you do that, cat's so weak they can't even do nothing like that bro. It takes a true soldier to do that, that's called discipline, that's what Islam gave me you know. It gave me the real military mind. That's like cat's over in Iraq right now fighting, these cats can't have sex until they go home. That's what I said, I wanna see if I can not have sex until I get married, and I'm going to do that. I went to Mecca and cleansed all my sins. I ain't touching no girls, I ain't touching my fiance, until I get married. You know what I mean, Alhumdulillah, Allah been blessing me man, and I been able to do that. And I get married May 2nd, Inshallah man. Na mean like I said everything is all focused, in the way I thought it was. It's like stuff poppin up in front of my eyes that I never thought would happen.
That's the beauty of Allah man, what else can you ask for when you have Allah. Sometimes I think like, everything I prayed for, Allah gave me man, and it's still comin. My prayers are still getting answered. It's almost scary man, put it like that. Everyday I pray for what Allah's given me, a Muslim wife, my son, I'm raising him Islamically, cause that's what counts to me right now man. Thats what counts right here. My religion comes first before anything, and it was hard for people to accept that man, but Islam come before anything, the music and everything, you know what I mean. I'm about to go to college for religion, man cause I wanna start speaking, like going around the world speaking on religion. But I got a lot of work coming up now so I really can't do it, because I been studying so much bout everybody's religion, Judaism, Christianity, everything. I can really debate with anybody, and let them know that Islam is the true religion, put it that way. But it's Inshallah to be able to sit down and one day do that man.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: How are the plans for the mosque developing?

Napoleon: The mosque, it's basically, you know, when Allah want me to do it I'll do it man. Maybe if I woulda never told nobody and I'd have just done it, Allah would have blessed me to be able to open a Mosque long time ago. I think I open my mouth too much, and that's one thing we don't do in Islam. See now I know I should have kept it quiet. And then when I opened the mosque, I could say look I have a Masjid (another word for Mosque). So whenever Allah want me to do it, It'll happen man. Shoutout to Rab man. Sayin Assalamualaikum to my man Rab.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: As a Muslim in America, what are your thoughts on this war?

Napoleon: No comment. Hahaha, no comment. Allah the best of the judges, I don't really got nothing to say about the war man. I love America. You feel me. I'm a muslim in America and to really be honest America to me is the best country, you know what I mean? You get the most freedom in America, man. And I don't think no...and right now, Islam is the fastest growing religion on earth and it's also the fastest growing religion in America, and I don't think no Muslim in America would say that America is not a good country. You know what I mean, because America is one of the best countries. And I'm proud to be an American Muslim, man. But with the war situation I really don't have no comment. Because it's deeper than what I know and it's deeper than what we all know...man so I know Allah knows the truth about everything, so. But all that protesting and all that stuff, I don't understand none of that stuff, you na mean when people protesting to stop the war cause you ain't stoppin nothing. Talking against the war, you ain't stoppin nothing man. You ain't doing nothing man, it's best to try to do something. But I leave that stuff alone, man. Allah the best of the judges bro. Of course and it's alot of stuff I don't agree with Bush but right now I love America. It's one of the best countries you feel me?
Jon - HitEmUp.com: Yeah.
Napoleon: It's like some people might not agree with everything Saddam Hussein do.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: You mentioned that you wanted to comment on a post that was made on the message forum in regards to Pac's mention of Hussein in All Out?
Napoleon: Sharmeen said that, my sister Sharmeen said that people was on there saying that Pac said sometime I question Hussein. At that time he was talkin to Fatal, back in the day he wasn't talkin about Saddam Hussein you na mean. At that time, it was back in the day, he was talking bout Fatal. But like I said man, you know, I'm just doing my thing. And I'm tryin to keep it crackin and everything looking Alhumdulillah for me. I don't knock nobody else you na mean, and I just do my thing hope everybody else do their thing. The Outlawz do their thing, I do my thing. Simple as that, man. Cause I'ma be alright regardless you feel me. It's like I'm set for life man. Everything is written man my life is already written. And that's the beauty of a Muslim. Everything is divine decree, so it's like preordained. Whatever Allah got for me I have to accept it you feel me. And whatever He don't want me to have, I just can't have. It's like nothing really...I don't really wear no jewelry and all that stuff no more, cause none of that amaze me man. You na mean, I still have a nice car, nice house. I still dress thugged out...man I don't want people to get it twisted I'm still Napoleon you na mean. It's just that a lot of stuff that used to amaze me before don't amaze me.
Like the clubs, and only time I hit the clubs is if my people, like the Diplomats was out here. I go to the club, hold em down, stuff like that but I don't really do nothing. You na mean, I basically focus on my music right now, more than ever, I never been this focused man. Like I'm talkin bout fo-cused dawg, ten songs a day. I never did anything at that level before. And I swear man the other day I did ten songs in a day and I didn't write one of em down. I got it where I can go in there and just spit from the head and it come out good you na mean. And I never did it on that level before man. That's real and I don't drink I don't smoke, I got a clear mind. So I never been as focused on my music and that's important right now cause...the most important is the fans. And I want the fans to know I'ma give em what they want. I don't want my fans to think I'm not gonna give em what they want, that's most important. So I want the fans to definitely know I'm not gonna just come all the way to the left, I'm not coming out a whole another guy. It's just more...I really believe my fans...I really think they gonna love my music more than ever, I really think...they gonna be like surprised. Cause that's really important to me the fans, man.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: How is your faith gonna effect your music in regards to content and the direction your gonna take with it. Are there things that you're going to try and influence through your music?

Napoleon: Basically the way my faith gonna influence my music...is gonna be truth. Now that I'm a Muslim it's like I have to be the truth and I always spoke from the heart. But now my heart is open a little more na mean. Islam is the truth man. That's like a cat sayin...he rappin and in his rap he sayin "I was on the streets sellin drugs" and really was on the street selling drugs- that's the truth. Ain't nothin more truer than Islam. I talked to gangsters, the street niggas, I been there and I done that. All that is in my blood. It's just like in a gang, for example, you know how some people be a Y.G., a B.G., than they a O.G.? Well basically I was a Y.G., I was a B.G., I was a O.G., now I got Islam. That's the top man. Can't get no higher than having Islam. You na mean...because the Book, The Quran, it teaches you everything. Basically...it seem like when Allah wrote the Quran, it seem like the worst drug dealer in the world, the worst murderer in the world can get that and be like "Dang, this is a religion that's true and I don't have to feel less of a man...if somebody come and try to attack me, I can fight back." Because it's a sin in Islam when you turn your back on your enemy, and you can't turn your back on your enemy bro...you na mean...it's like now I feel I'm at that level. I'm at that top level man. I can talk bout the streets cause I really been there. I really done that bro, I really was on the streets, my family really was in the hood. I was in the poorest of the poorest. I grew up in a house, eight dudes sleepin in one bedroom, I can really vouch for that. I can really vouch for...half of my friends got locked up for selling drugs, half of my friends got murdered in front of me. Half of my friends that murdered people, I really seen that and done that, you na mean?

And everything I say in my music I will do or have done. You na mean, either I done it or I'm gonna do it. That's how Islam effected me. Everything I say in my music bro, every little thing I say man! Well, it's just that... like I said, to me ain't nothin more important than my fans. And when Sharmeen and my cousin Rab, they both out in Florida, you na mean. They be touching on the internet and they be telling me, you know, get on there man cause your fans probably...you know, some fans upset thinkin you leavin the Outlawz and this and this and this...well I'ma be honest to the fans, the Outlawz never been the same since Pac died man. You na mean, and I had to come to it to realize that it'd never be the same! And now they just let people come in that...never be...never walked into the studio, changing lyrics! And just do all the stuff in front of your face, na mean? And we suppose to be brothers na mean? That's why I say they'll never be the same. The Outlawz ain't the same man, it'll never be the same after Pac died. And the funny part, I was the troublemaker in the group you na mean. I feel like I held the group down man. When they was struggling and it was people tryin fight the Outlawz, it was me and my people holdin the Outlawz down. To be honest with you, you know what I mean.

I always been like that man and then it just hurt me if I hear that the Outlawz running round saying he was the troublemaker and this and this and this. I don't know how true that is cause I dunno if I'm going wit rumors but you damn right I'm a troublemaker. I was, so simple as that. Nothing I done in the past, I wanna take back...you na mean, nothing...I'm happy with it, my whole life up to now. Like I don't regret nothing, I don't wanna take nothing back, nothing I said to anyone...I'm not taking nothing back you feel me? Simple as that man. Basically, they doing their thing I'm doing my thing and it's deep but I ain't the type of dude that wanna come out and be like...diss my group. And do...you na mean? Just cause of the love of Pac, I will never get out and start trying to talk bad and kick the Outlawz back, just cause of the love for Pac to be honest with you.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: How did Pac's Death affect you as an individual and you guys as a group? Like you said things really haven't been the same.
Napoleon: Pac's death affected me man cause he was like the only person out there that gave me real love you na mean without my Grandmother...brothers and them. I never met nobody outside of my household that really gave me true love you na mean and Pac gave me a lot of true game and if it wasn't for Pac I won't be where I am at now. You feel me so it was just like he came and he was giving me attention as a brother and a father man that's just like say you become attached to somebody and they take that away from you. All my life I was used to that man. That's one thing ya na mean I really can't say cause in the Quran it says every soul shall face death everybody's bound to face death. I don't care what you think about right now, everybody finds their death it's a certain day a certain time and a certain second that everybody... even a leaf that fell of a tree it was written the time and the day that leaf fell of a tree. Every bug every flea, even if you walked and stepped on an ant by mistake it was written...The time and the second that you stepped on that ant and that ant had to die and that's the same thing with man. We all planned of death and we all got a certain time a certain date and it's already here. It's the date and time and everything is already here written and been written man. Allah... the first day He...the first thing He invented was the pen and he told the pen to write. 6,000 years later thats when he created heavens, earth, and Adam, Shaitan (the devil) and them so everything Allah is going to run it to is already written. People fail to realize that. So anybody running around scared of death or let death effect them like that to me they probably really don't know ya na mean they don't know the time taken the way Allah got planned for us. The Quran...I read the Quran at least once every two weeks or I try to read it a lot man you know. I go to Jumma (Friday prayer) every Friday and one thing it let us know that we gonna face Allah. Every soul shall face death man ya nah mean and we all part of it and we all gonna see God one day so it's simple as that. As a Muslim I live my life where basically I could die any minute ya na mean. So they say as a Muslim person you supposed to live your life like you gonna live forever or you gonna die any minute so you gotta make smart moves you gotta make smart business moves. The important thing, it ain't really business moves like right now I am trying to make smart life moves into the next life. This life right now is gonna get me into the next life ya na mean? You know I'ma be in Paradise forever or I'll be in hell forever and that's real so that's what I am trying to think. That's why I am planning my life and nothing else is important you feel me?
Jon - HitEmUp.com: How do you think Tupac would feel about the way his music is being handled?
Napoleon: I really believe Pac would be mad the way cats doing his music ya na mean. I really would think Pac really really would be mad just a lot of stuff if Pac was here wont be happening man. And even with Jay Z no disrespect to Jay Z ya na mean because he give it up... but for example if Pac was living... that wouldn't have happened. I am a be honest with you. Edi and Kastro cleared that song to Jay-Z ya na mean and I think if Pac was living they wouldn't have cleared it or it never would have got cleared. That's why I feel it would never be the same since Pac died.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: That's the sad part about it for me is just to sit back and really look at what was and what he lived for and I look at the way the music is coming out now, and I realize you know, their trying to encourage peace and everything through his music, but it's almost like underminding what he lived for at the same time.
Napoleon: That's how you gotta plan as a Muslim it's a sin if you don't write your will and if you don't write who is gonna take care of your worldly affairs after you die ya na mean. So that's one thing when I came back from Mecca man. I came back and I did everything and I let them know if I go right now, I'm secure with my death. Where... I'm secure where I know that people gonna have my best interest and all of the real estate stuff I own... my businesses, ya na mean my music my son ya na mean, my will... everything is straight man. I came back from Mecca man the first thing I did I took every test you can ever think of you na mean. I ain't gonna lie man I was like I'm bout to get life insurance...taking Aids tests... stuff that I used to be scared of to do. Alhamdulillah that everything came back clear you na mean. That's the main thing that I think that a lot of people don't realize that you gotta plan for your life man you really gotta plan. A lot of people are too scared and be like " I ain't gonna die " and you never know man and one thing about Islam, it teaches us that it's a sin if your walking around without your will made.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: Just getting back to the handling of Pac's estate for a second here, did Pac have a will set up? What do you know about that?
Napoleon: Pac had the mind... Pac had the heart he had the spirit of a Muslim man Pac had his will Pac knew he was gonna die. Pac had the heart of a Muslim man you na mean that's why I call him Muslim. Pac was a Muslim.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: If Pac had a will then why do you think his estate is being handled the way it is being handled now.
Napoleon: Man I don't get into that ya na mean. Everything really ain't being treated...like Pac his mom run it a lot... everything is straight ya na mean everything is straight with Pac. I am just talking about the music, his rhymes. I am sure his not gonna write in his will "Ok. I want this person at the studio... and I want this person to do that" ya na mean but I never looked at his will but I'm sure he left the will with his moms ya na mean.
Another thing...like a lot of cats... Daz and all these cats I hear are talking slick about Pac's mom. Her thing is, she could care less about the music industry you feel me she care less about the music industry. The only reason why she is in the music industry now is to make sure her son's music is put out ya na mean. She is leaving it up to Edi and Kastro a lot of the stuff ya na mean. Afeni is not in the music industry man she just wants to make sure... trust me she has Pac's best interest. She is making sure that, as much as possible, nobody is going to do Pac's music dirty that nobody is gonna do nothing like that. I am not gonna sit here and say that people is doing the music dirty, because she is the woman that...she ain't no rapper. She don't got time to be understanding. She is a mother man ya na mean she gonna accept Jay Z cause that's what a mother would do ya na mean. Cat's can't get mad at Pac's mom for clearing the clearance for Jay Z because she is a mother man. She don't got time... it's other people ya na mean. We might understand that cause we are on the street level but she is a mother ya na mean. So she is doing a great mother job with the music and with Pac man. And that's one thing I can't take from her. I heard Daz been talking slick man and I don't appreciate that ya na mean. I don't appreciate him, first of all even disrespecting a woman man... and I think he needs some respect man. Because she doing what she supposed to do man. She give a hell about the music...after she puts out the last Pac album she don't care no more because she is not in it for the music and she is not in it for the money. Her main thing is to make sure that her son's music gets put out.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: Ya I think a lot of people don't understand or don't appreciate the amount of work that actually goes in to releasing these albums and you know personally I think it's great what she is doing but I think some of the people around her might not have Pac's interest in mind as much as she does.
Napoleon: Na It's stressful for her bro na mean to be going through that type of stuff man so you know Daz he needs to respect and watch his mouth man.
Jon - HitEmUp.com: Are there any other topics or anything that you want to cover or let fans know?
Napoleon: Basically man I just want people to know I am gonna try to link some for the website something I got to put out their so people can get a taste of the music. Look out for the solo album. I just want my fans to know I ain't forget about em man ya na mean. Like I said I'm always gonna be an Outlaw. I might not be in the Outlawz but I'ma always be a Outlaw. It's in my heart man. I brought too much to that name.period. ya na mean. I brought too much to that name man. When it was time for the dust kickin up if anybody...came to ya "who's kickin up that dust" they gon say "the little short light skinned one." Ya na mean and I brought a lot to that name and I'ma always be an Outlaw I am just not in the group anymore and I always love Pac...man we the same, I come from the same lineage as Pac man. So ain't nothin changed. I'm just branching off and starting my own thing u na mean...and right now...I'm doing what Pac done to the Outlawz, I got my own little homies right now. I got people from around the world u na mean. I got Muslims and such from all over the world that love me man that I'm tryin...I wanna please everybody na mean. My fans gonna get pleased in America to the fullest na mean...my fans on the streets gon get pleased. I got fans in Saudi Arabia now...I got people all over man... I gotta do music that everybody can relate to. I would never come out wit a record and go all the way to the left. na mean I'll never do that...because that ain't me. I'm still who I am but I'm going by some Islamic lyrics now. Now that I have Allah and Allah is watching everything I do, I would never sell my soul to sell no record. Simple as that. I'ma always be from the heart, if that work it works. That's what got me this far man everything I wrote and everytime I spit it was from the heart. And I'ma always come from my heart and if it work, it work...if it don't then Allah...everything happens...He got plans for me man like I said before...
If I sell three million records, Alhamdulillah. If I sell five records Alhamdulillah. Cause it's already written man. U feel me? So I'm tryin to let the fans know...man I ain't forget bout em man. I'm still the same cat... I feel even more dangerous than ever because now I got that knowledge that I never had in my life...na mean...I'm 25...I'm jus starting to get the knowledge...and now that I'm getting it...it's like all my life I didn't know it exists na mean. So now...and it's fun and to be honest, I really feel like my life is really starting...my rap career is really starting. I really know how to do the music now...I'ma always have the street's back man. No matter what man...cause I'ma always give the streets what they want. And I'm always give my fans what they want. That's why they gotta let em know...say look man "to hell with what people say bout Napoleon...I know Napoleon gonna come through...he gonna give us the music we want and that's it man." That's it man...and I don't feed into the internet rumors and all that stuff man...I hope my fans don't either man but you know...just watch out for the album, I'll definitely get in touch with ya'll when I find out the date the album gonna drop or when I sign a deal I definitely get on the air and definitely let ya'll know the deal is closed...you na mean and what label it's with. For people in LA this week I think Wednesday they gonna world premiere one of the singles...people that's in New York and Jersey...Philly look out for the song I did with the Diplomats...they bout to be on a mix tape...people that's out in Switzerland, I'll be out there in June...na mean. And I think I'm going to Africa in August so I'ma be around man.

Jon - HitEmUp.com: Germany this summer as well right?
Napoleon: Inshallah. Inshallah...and I'll try to link some music man, matter of fact...fans on the Outlaw website man I'm trying to get in touch with the people that's running the Outlaw website...they don't return my calls...so you know...but I just want my fans to know on the Outlaw website ain't nothing changed man.
I just wanna give a shout out to the sister Sharmeen and to all the true Napoleon fans out there...when they was talking, starting rumors saying "he ain't doing it no more" I love ya'll for staying down and staying true with me man. I'ma definitely give ya'll what ya'll want. Definitely. I'ma definitely give the true fans what they want.