for was a very fast light man called a
Chevy light private jets he was living
like kings but I never expected I never
expected some stuff you're gonna see
that's gonna make it hard to smile in a
future mmm
bismillah alhamdulillah I said I'm
alaikum peace be unto you thank you for
tuning in to another episode of the Deen
show where we're here at ken TV 36
wednesdays ms midnatsol talking about
this week with our good friend from the
former group two outlaws which his name
is Napoleon he was with Tupac Shakur hip
hop which is a billion-dollar industry
we want to kind of get to know the ins
and outs of it and see if we can share
his experiences and we come back here on
the Dean show you do not want to go
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there's only one button Jesus was his
messenger no I did that maybe it maybe
is just to break the ice
my name is Lu top bill most people know
me as Napoleon a former member of the to
pot happens in my short life man I
spilling us a lot of things out there
throwing the private jets albums I sold
over 40 million copies worldwide
shootouts street fights clown fights
whatever you name it been there done
that then I experienced the ups and down
on his fast life so I want to share with
you my story this is Napoleon here on
the D show with Napoleon from the
outlaws went from selling millions of
Records hanging out with Tupac Shakur
now you're kicking it with Eddie from
the D show come to life alright so they
can go to the D show calm and there you
have your section and we talked about in
previous shows about how you actually
came to this way in the way of
submission and surrendered to the
creator of the heavens and earth
followed the same way of life of joke
Jesus Moses Noah Abraham and all the
messengers of God including the lasting
final messenger sent to mankind of
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him
definitely
now tell us for those of the audience
who don't know much about the outlaws or
Tupac let's start off with educating
imma go on to part he's a he's a rapper
that became one of the biggest rappers
in the history of rap music he's in the
Guinness Book of World Records for
selling over 60 million records
worldwide he also became an aspiring
actor he became he had an acting career
as well
two part for the right group together
called The Outlaws which he was also a
member of this rap group it was myself
and a few other members that most of the
members of the outlaws are basically
blood relatives to Tupac Shakur so all
the rap records brat records
myself along with the outlaws performed
almost 40 million records where while I
think that outlaws is the only
underground I won't even say underground
with the only rap group that ever
performed over 40 million records
worldwide I don't think there's another
group out there that could say the same
but that lifestyle after the money the
cars and the fame that lifestyle started
to get depressing to me and I started to
search for true happiness and I
hamdulillah all praise due to God as I
found it through the religion Islam and
most of the people don't know and living
in America living anywhere in the world
that we look for some type of happiness
we usually turn to drugs - partying -
womanizing and we noticed that this type
of happiness is a temporary type of
happiness once you once your drug where
all of you back to sober your life and
you back to reality but Allah says in
the Quran truly the hearts found
tranquility and the remembrance of Allah
the remembrance of God so the only way
that we can ever even taste true success
in this life in the next life is
following the religion Islam because
this is the religion legislated that to
us from the creator of the heavens in
this is the life that he told us to
choose now did you get out did you have
an opportunity to hang out with some of
these other rappers like biggie smalls
well that was actually an opponent of to
pray yeah biggie smalls but it was a
time that Tupac and Biggie was friends
they weren't how about there was a time
they was friends I was on the same
record label with rappers like dr. Dre
and Snoop Dogg uh-huh we was actually
label mates so we all it was a time we
hung out with both all it wasn't yes it
was a time to train closer yes with dr.
Dre Snoop Dogg it was a time that every
weekend Tupac and outlaws we would go to
Snoop Dogg house that we had our
basketball accomplished or no Snoop
Dogg's awesome yeah we was on the same
label yeah who did music together you
know I did music with some of the
biggest Snoop Dogg Scarface and to part
with their music with some of the
biggest legends out there come on I mean
what's this Eric be in rockin everywhere
rockin yeah they was before my time yeah
who are some of the big names right now
right now some of the big names that you
hung out with from before right now some
of the New Orleans I really don't know
too much of them yeah
I don't know too much other but Snoop
Dogg dr. Dre Scarface these are the
legends the only thugs-n-harmony these
are the people in my time I was ruling
with torn we doing music with my time
now
do you keep in touch with any of them
unfortunately man I fell out of contact
but that's not that's what I'm working
on an analyst to get back in contact
with these people because you know we
want to call them to Islam you know did
any of them to parks family ever accept
Islam - part he have a lot he has quite
a few members of his family that's
Muslim recently a few members of his
family accepted Islam to park at a young
age he know about Islam one day I was
talking to a sister power sister she's
still alive she's still alive like
guided to Islam I was talking to a
sister she was telling me about we was
talking about Islam and she was telling
me how one day she was trying to go to
sleep and it was as if it was something
that was on top of her and she was
telling me it wasn't as it wasn't a
dream she said it wasn't a dream
whatever it was it kept trying to go to
whisper to her and she was saying that
she started she just got saved as what
what it's so-called safe they claim you
say when you become a Christian or
something like that so she was saying
that she started to say a prayer from
the Bible and she said for some reason
she started to say ala fatiha which is a
prayer from Islamic prayer and it's
actually the first chapter of the Quran
my money my money kill me Dean yeah
Kenya can assign Dino so a little stuffy
know so often Lavina Nam toddy but you
didn't bomb boom BRT
she said when I started to recite I felt
out whatever that was it disappeared she
said whatever the feeling I was going
through whatever it was I felt like it
was holding me down it disappeared when
I started to recite the Arabic prayer
that the Muslims pray five times a day
so me I started talking more about Islam
and she recognized that you know that
this is a religion that she tell me she
say i'ma die as a Muslim and only Allah
knows best and we pray that she do
accept the religion Islam but also you
got most of all the members of the
Outlawz became Muslim and big G he's an
uncle a 2-part he just became Muslim he
had two cousins Tupac had two very close
cousins which is Bill and Kenny they've
been Muslim for years so it's Lama so he
was surrounded by Muslims what do you
think now when you see people like on
the corners
selling the drugs listening to the
hip-hop emulating a lot of these famous
rappers I mean what advice do you get of
people like they're trying to get a
people advice where one that this type
of lifestyle only lead to destruction
you know to me even the rappers are
smart enough to stop selling drugs this
is the reason why they become musicians
even the rappers are tired of living in
the ghettos and hanging on the corner
this is the reason they put out write
records so they can get away from that
life and most of the rappers once they
come out with records you notice that
they leave the hood because they know
that that life is sickening they know
that their life only gonna have an end
that's gonna be destructive form if they
stay into that lifestyle but
unfortunately like I mentioned earlier
is the people that behind the scenes
that trying to make the rappers continue
to put that music out so it's like it's
confusing to the kids they say for one
reason the rapper's are tired of that
lifestyle but they still talk about any
music you know what I mean and I think
that most rappers more rappers need to
come out and educate the kids that this
is an entertainment they should tell the
kids look at man this is how I make my
money if you come to my house I live in
the biggest house on the east coast of
America I'm no longer drug dealer if
you're gonna listen to my music know
that this is entertainment yeah so I
think one thing is that we forget about
death and we get caught up into the
tantalize ation of this world tell us
now you were you there when Tupac died I
was the neighbor to partner but actually
a metaphor
I was there when he died I wasn't there
when he got shot he got shot at down six
days later in the hospital and for me
one of the things that hit me is home
holders you if you don't park was 25 20
25 years oh and what happened then one
of the things that hit me is when it
made me start to think how pot it was a
time I used to always speak about death
and he said speak about how he don't
want to live anymore
and it was when he started to make a lot
of money when he went to death for
records and I remember his conversation
started to talk he started to speak
about how he want to live now so he can
enjoy his money and enjoy the way that
he live in his life and unfortunately a
few months later that's when he died so
I started to notice right there and
started to think that we don't have no
control over when we're gonna die
you know what I mean most people think
that they know when they're gonna die
but we don't know when we go to John Day
so it's about time that we should start
investigating what's going to happen to
us when we dead because this life is
temporarily and the next life is forever
and is real you know even a Hellfire or
even paradise the option I mean I make
sense that you're gonna have
accountability when you bring the render
car back and they do an inspection
you're gonna be accountable if you den
it up definite you've been given the air
you've been giving your eyes your health
and you think you're just gonna run
around this life and you know do what
you please and there's not someone who
orchestrated this who put this together
who designed it now you're not gonna be
accountable exactly yeah we got courts
of law do certain things man wants to
hold you accountable what about the
Creator what about the Creator yes a lot
of sense he definitely yeah what about
that's something that the people need to
think about why they created maybe we
should all ax ourselves sit back and say
wait a minute
why am i creating what's gonna happen to
me when I'm dead most people we we so
busy with this life that we never even
sit in accessors while we created now I
know certain people that I used to throw
it in other people's ears that you know
what
hey all we're gonna have when we get
older is stories to tell life is short
let's get it while we can what about
this way of thinking now we're thinking
man that's the dangerous way to think
that any dangers we're thinking it's a
misguided way of this guy that we're
thinking because one we not promised
that we're gonna even live tomorrow so
if you know that you is a chance that
you could die any day you should start
thinking about the next length you
should say well this life is running
away from me let me try to stack up
something that's what
me in the next life even if you get it
in this life you never seen a person
going to his grave with a u-haul truck
yeah person everything he accomplished
in this life you never cell meeting them
in the grave so it's very important that
why would you get something in its life
and stack up all the stuff of this dunya
this world and when you and your grave
it's not going to come to come with you
the only thing that's going to follow us
in our grades is I deeds yeah I mean
that's the only thing we're gonna take
with us so then Rolls Royce the Bentley
the Ferrari the Rolex all these things
come tario that we're chasing that's got
to stay behind it's going to stay behind
and you're gonna be surprised with the
people gonna do with it when you leave
you know I mean most people might fight
each other kill each other over yeah so
it's best to start a stack of something
that's gonna come with us and pay
attention to what's going to come with
us and that's our deeds you go to me
yeah that's amazing how it's kind of
like a mirage it's an illusion that we
think if we just attained this amount of
money this kind of car
maybe with some details here and there
on it that I'm gonna have some solace
I'm gonna have some comfort my life and
that's the crazy part about I thought
the same way yeah I mean I thought that
if I get a big house and cars are money
in my bank account man this is the
ultimate happiness yeah and when I
reached that level man I was so
depressed and if that's the case how
come you have millionaires and
billionaires committing suicide they
have all the money but they still murder
themselves they still commit suicide
because money it's not gonna bring you
happiness yeah money you cannot buy
happiness yeah people might say that
well I have money I can buy happiness
but this type of stuff it's not gonna
make bring happiness you can make your
depressed you can see a lot of these
celebrities actually actually
deteriorating in front of our eyes
exactly you know so one thing I want to
just note that obviously in Islam
there's nothing wrong with money nothing
wrong yeah no but if you're making that
money your God know if you're putting
that money before everything else and
that's it money money work work money
money and you forget about the one who
created you there's a problem it's a
problem because it's law we make money
yeah loans is permissible according to
the Sharia and the way that Allah
prescribed for us to make our money yeah
but we shall always remember that we
shouldn't get to the part where all we
care about like you just mentioned his
money and we should get about the next
night because money comes and go I had
so much money in my life and
I'll take say he gave to whom he pleases
so the main thing is that we shall
always remember that one day we go into
being that grave yeah
one day we go to being I agree well
Tupac is there he was 25 years old there
was another one who just followed him
did he die afterwards before Biggie
Smalls obviously died he probably loved
23 20 23 these people was kids man ya
know so that person that's saying like I
still got time because that's what a
trick also now you're thinking that you
know I got a little crass tenacious
exactly people who think for example the
other day I was reading the news and I'm
sure you guys heard about the people
that died on the airplane yeah yeah like
two three almost 300 people 300 people
died they never probably thought that
they were gonna get on this plane and
not make it back to see their loved ones
yeah but one of the things that happen
ever was surprised it to me was a lady
that actually missed that flight
yesterday was for God name but she
actually if this is the same lady that
missed that flight and two days later
three days later she got killed in a car
accident and and this is something when
it's your time to die you gonna die you
might miss it you might didn't get on
that plane because it was written for
you to die that time and that day and
yet death was only three days later she
might have thought well since I didn't
die on that plane I got a long life to
live on God want good for me you know
the people mentality they think that I'm
not gonna die and she died three days
later in the car incident so we cannot
escape death you know what I mean
whether you're right it's gonna catch us
do you know any other rappers or any
other people that you associated with
that actually are also dead we got two
of them here 25 20 re who got biggie
Qaddafi this is the guy who introduced
me to the outlaws I mean introduced me
to Tupac Qaddafi was my childhood friend
he was one of the members of the outlaws
he got killed on to accidentally by a
little my little cousin two months later
after Tupac dog you know I mean so I
think go ODB yeah he just passed away a
few years ago overdose on drugs another
rapper I think I forgot his name they
found they found dead in the hotel not
even if we would say that the rapper's
are dying man everybody around us if we
notice people around us dying every
single day yeah I don't want to have
people feel like this is a call to
pessimism I think this is something that
we should be optimistic
there's a better life definitely that
there's a permanent life definitely
we shouldn't be afraid to die we
shouldn't be afraid to die because we
know that if we live in our life
according to Islam the correct way that
the life will be better in the next life
it may be something forever
this knife is only temporarily so a
person that has common sense
a wise person was safe for example if I
have a chance to live a better life
forever I'll rather take that life
forever than a tip irreverently life you
know I mean this life is only
temporarily who and they right mom will
want to get everything and just
basically forge the next life do all
this stuff in this life then they can
lose the next life that would be forever
nobody in a right model would take that
opportunity you know the minute it
doesn't make sense I mean and we just
get caught up in this world here and
like I said it's good to be the best at
whatever you're striving to be a doctor
a scientist a mathematician you know but
the best husband the best wife but again
you have a lord and if you have the
Creator definitely he's not one who
comes into existence he's not a man he's
not the son he's not the movies than
when I created all these things that
worship Him submit technically it's only
right he created us he provide for us
man I love Soprano Watson hollers the
provider for everything that we don't
even know exists of creatures in the sea
like we mentioned yesterday man it might
be snowing in Alaska and hot in Saudi
Arabia
rain a new Newton in New York City at
tornadoes down south in Texas all this
happened with the permission of Allah
none of this happened without the
permission of Allah I blame it on global
warming but this is happening with the
wisdom and permission of Allah so we
just think about subhanAllah look at all
the fears that Allah does every single
day every second he bringing somebody to
life taking the life of a person he was
providing for this creature in the sea
he provide for this ant he's providing
for us he's protecting us man it's only
right that we worship Him alone because
this is he's the one created us he's the
one that provided for us protect us and
all he asks from us backs is that we
worship Him alone for example it's a
hadith where the proper southern island
was seldom said that it would be a man
drugged out of the Hellfire he would be
dragged out of the Hellfire and Allah WA
asked his man he would say that if you
have all the treasures in the heavens in
the earth when you give it up to ransom
yourself from the Hellfire
this man will say yes Allah was say
manna actually only for less than it
only actual to worship me alone
you didn't access for all the treasures
of the heavens and earth all he acts
from us is that we worship Him alone you
know to me and that entails that your
prayer your sacrifice your life your end
is for the create or not the creation
Jesus he was born and he prayed to the
krita see he's not God
definitely Muhammad's not God Moses not
God the Son yes it's not God yeah
so this is something that it just goes
with your very nature is very simple
let's talk about a few more things
before we come to an end I mean it seems
like you know people living from weekend
a weekend and the girl she likes to
display and the men they like to chase a
rat race I yeah so we don't want these
women at the same time God Almighty the
crater knows what's best No
so now the woman she's naive thinking
that okay this man loves me when he's
just chasing the one thing and the man
over here on the other end
this is his target and he'll say and do
anything it take take advantage of the
woman and a woman a woman would never
ever know her rights until she become a
Muslim because everything else in life
is calling a woman to strip her from
everything stripper from a respect
stripper from a clothing stripper for my
even sense of thinking to be logical man
the only way a woman with no her rights
is do the religion of Islam and
surprisingly before I became a Muslim I
didn't know that I thought that this is
the way we treat women I thought that
this is the way a woman's supposed to
behave and it's a true story about a
preacher man who did arm he did he wrote
a story about so much divorce that's
happened in America he's a Christian and
he was talking about the problem of the
woman in the West and one of the things
he said is that in this society I woman
when they wake up in the morning to go
work they beautify themselves they put
all the makeup on they put the
miniskirts on the high-heeled shoes and
they go beautified a sofa they boss and
their co-workers then when they come
home from work he said they take all the
makeup off they take off the high-heeled
shoes they put they just wrap their
hands a scarf and they put on big
sweatpants and they walk around I was
tired so tired that they had no rights
no energy to even give their husband a
rites
and when I read that I said soup and I
look at the wisdom of Islam and our
religion our woman when they walk out of
the house they covered itself from head
to toe they do not beautify these sons
for no one and they walked back in the
house that's when they take off their
jilbab they took off their headscarf and
they beautified itself with a man that's
when they get to pull it put on the
makeup they put their put on whatever
type of clothes they want that's
pleasing city man this is the wisdom of
Islam everything that a lot tell us are
doing is religion it makes a hundred
percents it makes sense and there's only
for us it's only to better ourselves
that makes sense I mean to be a slave
not to the fashion or your desires to be
modest to not go outside naked skin
tight clothes and just be tantalizing
for the man now he can't he's about to
have a heart attack and you got all
sorts of mischief going on where you
surrender submit to your Creator you
dress modestly and you save all that
good-looking stuff how are your husband
yes and when they go home that's when
they can wear whatever they want
yeah and they beautify yourself for the
husband so the religion of Islam is the
religion that's for the whole humanity
this is the only and that's gonna help
we don't want to put nobody down
we don't want I mean some people don't
know you get used to the culture around
you but yeah you just used a good old
common sense you and try Islam that's
all we gonna tell the people try Islam
yeah and look in a person no they suffer
you unhappy if you depress if something
don't feel correcting your heart if you
feel you have a void in your heart just
try Islam yeah get closer to your
creator and you will see that your life
will become better he said the word in
Arabic but if we define it surrender
submission obedience sincerely and in
peace to the crater summed up with one
word Islam try it so the reason I
brought this up about the woman and the
nightclubs and the men chasing and the
woman flaunting is because that's what
you are writing songs about them that's
what you were and who you are degrading
in these rap videos and then you got the
woman in the back you know shaking it
and no clothes on I will call that the
oppression of women yeah unfortunately
you got the people that attack Islam and
say that will press our woman I would
say that I used to oppress women because
this is the music this is the lifestyle
the culture
I was brought up with that I had no
respect for the woman yeah you have
records that man sap analog if you just
listen to somebody's recognize I'm not
telling people to go listen but some of
the words that the people are saying in
a records have no respect for a woman
yeah and the woman don't even know this
how can you have respect for yourself
you dancing in these videos and they
basically the great new to the fullness
you know they don't care about you don't
care about you definitely the more you
take off the mobile pay that and that's
the mentality take everything all of you
Amato this is what we tell them
yeah but the religion Islam actually is
the religion and it basically give the
woman her freedom
give the woman outer space is an amazing
thing because you can't imagine how many
women will fast for the man she actually
fasted for the man because she's a model
and she will refrain from eating certain
foods so she can lose a little weight
Wow try faster for the crater hug it
down and do certain things for that
dollar why not get down and do it for
the crater because we love those women
we love the men we want them more beer
for them we want good firm but there's
an illusion there's something that is
confusing to people his life is this
life is it's not on that type of
lifestyle it doesn't it's not a law you
lifestyle yeah I mean they will put up
one woman in a video and as soon as she
get a two three years older she will not
be able to get no work she's not even
who's it the next one we don't need you
anymore go to the next one and this is a
cycle that the way they continue to use
these woman I I and yourself and I'm
sure all the sincere Muslims do not want
our women to get used definitely not
definitely not and and I think this is
very important any true seeker any
sincere person just uses the good old
common sense we'll see that this makes
sense definitely man yeah and we tell
the people that they listen and you want
freedom in life and if you want respect
if you want basically some type of
happiness in your life you have to go to
your Creator he's the one that's in
control everything he's don't wanna he's
in control of the respect he's in
control of the money he's in control of
everything we have to return back to our
creator to get any type of happiness
know that I mean that that's the truth
it's very simple now tell us what advice
do you have for the people now they want
good I mean most people they want good
they want good but they don't have
plan they don't have a system and
there's some confusion out there some
people just give up they say I believe
in God but I don't want to follow an
organized religion what do you guys say
about this basically one is um most
people I say that they believe in God
and they just said what I'm doing right
I'm I don't you know God understanding
I'm doing right and I'm not going wrong
but who to say what's right and wrong
one of the reasons why God sent us
prophets and messengers is the teachers
was right or wrong we can't say what's
right and wrong according to our desires
some people might say well I'm not going
around killing people I only smoke one
blonde a day so I'm not that bad you
know what I mean it's the mentality the
most of the people but the one way we
define right and wrong is what God thou
created the heavens in order to tell us
what to stay away from or what to
implement in our life this is what's
right and wrong and this is why he sent
his prophets and messages and if that
was the case we wouldn't need no prophet
and messenger we can just believe in God
and live life the way we want to live
life so it's very important that if a
person did like we said earlier man God
created us he know what's best for us
yeah he knows what's best for us so if
he sent down a religion in the way of
life and tell us that this is what's
gonna help us in this life in the next
life then we need to listen to and
follow that religion for example when
you want a university or college if you
have a study you have a test and a
teacher give you a book and say well you
have to study this book in order to pass
your tests most people will put all
after they would just go to stay up all
night studying that book Allah send us
down the Quran and he sent us the last
messenger and he tell us that this is
the way we have to live my life this is
the ultimate test that's gonna help us
either go to get to general paradise or
if we disobey Allah and don't follow
this book we can go to the Hellfire so
this is the ultimate test in life that
we have to follow the way that God sit
down to us to follow it's like your boss
you said look do a B and C and you're
gonna get paid yes don't do your job
you're out of a job
you're fired you're going to listen to
that boss exactly you're gonna listen to
that book yeah but the Creator when he
says fired
he means the fire tell us now you do
some some speaking you go and you travel
all around the world and helping out the
youth helping out the people you know
sharing your story people want to get in
touch with you yes where they want to
get in contact they can reach me from my
website through my website
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IDI calm I also just lost the clothes
along meme clothing and I am clothing
calm you know so we wait for the people
who did holla at me one last thing
closing comments and suggestions that
person who is living from weekend a
weekend hanging out to nightclubs she
wants to impress the man he wants to
chase the woman and you know what now
they're conscious is eating up at them
they want to do the right thing what
advice do you have for my advice that
for the people that searching and they
looking for the right thing like I
mentioned earlier man go get an English
translation of the Quran go to a mansion
if you have any matches in your
neighborhood on the internet go read
about the village in Islam or read about
the biography of the Prophet Mohammed if
you're looking for good the person their
own of all good is a lot the creative
the heavens in earth if you're looking
for respect the owner of all respect is
a lot so we have to return to Allah to
get some type of happiness to get our
life in order we have to follow the life
that was prescribed from us from our
Creator it's the only way we have some
type of happiness inside just Alcala how
to make it greater the heavens and earth
Allah rewards you mind and thank you
thank you sincerely we're here not to
judge you
we're trying to help you get things
together before you get judged before
the day of judgement because we will all
die and we will be accountable for our
actions and we know there's some
confusion let's say out there but you
could do something very simple ask the
create tour alone to guide you and then
use the good old common sense that he
gave you look if you were trying to find
a sa for instance that was written by
Shakespeare and then you had 20 of them
and the rest were written by two years
for example are you telling me you would
not be able to find the one written by
Shakespeare with all these ways of life
confusions and the devil Shaytan setting
up falsehood out there you're telling me
you're not going to be able to find the
one way the correct way that is from the
crater of the heavens and earth don't
fool yourself be sincere with yourself
do it a little bit of the legwork
you worked hard to get that PhD you
worked hard to get that high school
diploma or even the GED you can work a
little bit to get close and find out who
your Lord is it's very simple and if you
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I'm a alaikum peace be unto you come and
see what everyone's talking about
who do you find one contradiction it
can't be from God but the rational idea
the rational explanation is you do your
best to give up for spring God is one I
will never give up spreading this
message okay you take that necessary
step you don't know if you're gonna live
till tomorrow
so you got to find that urges you to do
the right thing right now the reality of
life usually doesn't sink in until
tragedy comes you get a few bad people
the media grabs a hold of that and
spends it the way they want to if you
say that you do not believe in Jesus you
have stepped outside of his name you
cannot be a Muslim in attending our
faith
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