BLACK NAPOLEON
20-year-old Robert Njovu, aka Black Napoleon, is a cause for attention.
The young musician has been making waves for the last three years in the Perth collective ‘Home Baked’, and also reps Perth’s own Organic Music Society. We got the chance to speak to the legend about his evolving talent and his new EP, 20:20 to be released in 2018.
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In my new EP 20:20, you will see my natural progression as an artist and experimenting with new sounds and vibes, I’m just really trying to improve myself as an all round artist as to a rapper.
The title 20:20 comes from me growing as a person and seeing stuff clearer with better understanding which was what I was trying to push through with my music and sounds. The tape will be featuring mainly artists from Home Baked with a couple interstate features as well, which will be a surprise!
I definitely would like to drop some visuals for the new projects once my the tape drops, so keep an eye for that!
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I moved from England to Australia when I was about 14. Whilst I was in England my influences were very grime influenced and I also had love for the American hip hop scene just as much I did for the UK scene. As I started making music here I came to realise, as much of my earlier influencers was grime, it wasn't right to make that type of music in Australia, so I had to adapt to that and kind of create my own sound that would appeal to Australian culture but also always keeping it real to myself!
"I had to adapt to that and kind of create my own sound that would appeal to Australian culture but also always keeping it real to myself!"
The music I make is a combination of stuff that has influenced me from day one, growing up in an African household-you're exposed to Afrobeats and Dancehall from a young age so it gave me an ear for my music very early, not to mention as grew older I started moving my ears to the streets more through Grime and Hip Hop, which has helped me develop two different perspectives in terms of rapping and flows.
