Napoleon Da Legend already has a track called "Leo," and "Leo Pt. 2" picks the thread back up. The title points at his star sign the original record name-checks "Knights of the Zodiac" and the sequel runs just under four minutes on his own Legendary Music imprint, with no producer credit listed and nothing else attached. That's consistent with how he's worked the last two years. Since Soul vs. Math with Dub Sonata, Napoleon has released at a rate that makes album cycles look quaint: G.A.M.O. ran twenty-three tracks, "Tough Skin" brought in Skyzoo, "Addis Abba" brought in Vinnie Paz. A single with no announced project behind it is a small move by his standards, not a comeback. What carries it is the writing. The Brooklyn-based MC born in Paris, of Comorian descent, raised in the DMV works in dense, stacked internals with a level delivery that keeps the technique from turning into a display. Four minutes with no hook to rest on is a long ask of one verse, and he spends it on construction rather than on momentum: rhyme schemes tightened rather than opened up, cadence switched every eight bars instead of building to a refrain. For listeners who judge an MC by what happens inside a bar, "Leo Pt. 2" is an easy recommendation. For anyone waiting to see whether the prolific run adds up to a statement record, this is a single, not an answer.
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