Postby Thug_poet » Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:13 pm
n July 2006, Napoleon visited Sydney, Australia to give a talk to the Muslim youth who were being influenced by "gangsta culture" (which had resulted in the killing of two young muslim men) and advise them against it. His background as a mainstream, successful rapper and his friendship/affiliation with the late Tupac Shakur, the rapper idolised most by the Sydney youth, ensured that his words had a lot of impact on them.
His mother, Aquillah Beale, was Christian and his father, Salek Beale, Muslim. When he was three years old his parents were murdered and his brother, Seike Beale, committed suicide. After this, he along with his big brother, Moonie Beale, and his little brother, Kamil "Hellraza" Beale, moved in with their grandmother in Irvington, New Jersey. As Beale grew older he started rapping. In 1994, he ran into his childhood friend Yafeu "Kadafi" Fula who he hadn't had contact with for years. Both of them were rapping and Kadafi's Godbrother was the notorious rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur. Kadafi's mother, Yaasmyn Fula, told Tupac about Beale. She told him how he witnessed his parents being murdered and it made him cry. He felt he had to meet napoleon
