Napolian

Producer and beatmaker Napolian was born Ian Evans, growing up in southern Los Angeles and soaking in a great amount of musical influence at a young age. Evans was making beats and working on notable productions before even out of his teens, culminating with the release of the Rejoice EP in 2012 on Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never's Software label. The EP, a debut for Napolian, highlighted his cleaner and more funk-inflected take on the post-Dilla landscape of instrumental hip-hop. Evans' work was noticed by more than a few supporters, and the coming years saw him working on production, mixing, and compositions alongside A$AP Ferg and Kelela, and in collaboration with Joel Ford aka Airbird. In 2014, Evans completed work on the debut Napolian full-length, Incursio, a sample-free collection of instrumental beats and highly compositional instrumental electro-leaning hip-hop.