11/14/2023 0 Comments Nav perfect timing![]() The relatively stunted careers of other brown Canadian rappers (there’s a reason you haven’t heard of anyone besides Nav) suggests that there’s no mass audience waiting to hear dispatches about the experience of that particular demographic, whereas status, drugs, sex, and cash comprise a universal, and universally marketable, language. ![]() Personally, I choose to read the numbness as a product of Nav’s environment. He’s gone from objectifying women who wouldn’t look at him to being objectified by them: “I know she really don’t love me, she love who I am.” Tolerance for this kind of content will vary according to the listener. Though he dutifully notes his transition from broke unknown to rich celebrity, he doesn’t seem very happy that his life has changed for the better. He routinely throws around numbers and lets them do the talking: 10 pairs of Gucci shoes, 200 for a belt, 15 racks, 20 racks, 30 racks. There’s a distinctly digital aspect to Nav’s lyrics which accentuates the nerdiness. His tracks can seem like they were procedurally generated by FashionTrapBot 9000, an AI programmed to output endless verses about drug-taking, money (measured in purchases of designer clothes), and status (measured, as is customary, in terms of sexually available women and cuckolding). Furthermore, he can’t sing: Like Travis Scott, his voice on record is always filtered through Auto-Tune.Īll in all, it’s easy to mistake Nav for a cipher. Speaking of which - Nav, in his lyrics, also seems kind of blatantly self-obsessed, which is, when coupled with his other demerits, a definite no-no. Nav’s taken the criticism to heart: The only N-word heard from him on Perfect Timing is his name. He’s not black, either: The self-described “brown boy” came under fire for using the N-word on Nav. Unlike Travis Scott, whose reputation and position a few years back was roughly similar to Nav’s currently, Nav isn’t handsome: Thick-set and bespectacled, he exudes a distinctly nerdy vibe even when he’s fitted head-to-toe in designer clothes. His fellow musicians and an ardent following on SoundCloud and Instagram argue that he is the consensus among music writers and music editors is that he isn’t, for a variety of reasons. There’s no doubt that Nav is with the cool kids, but there’s some confusion about whether Nav himself is cool. (The best cosign comes from Gucci: When Nav announces that “I’m just a brown boy who made something from nothing,” Guwop chimes in: “Me too!”) Metro, who has his own solo project due later in the year, isn’t the only one anointing Nav with his presence on the project: Perfect Timing is enlivened by contributions from Southside and Pi’erre Bourne (of “Magnolia” fame) on the production and from Lil Uzi Vert, Offset, Playboi Carti (also of “Magnolia” fame), fellow Torontonian and XO stalwart Belly, 21 Savage, and Gucci Mane. His rise to prominence has been uncommonly steep: Having provided shadowy contributions to Drake’s 2015 diss track “Back to Back,” he began gathering momentum on SoundCloud shortly afterward with “Take Me Simple” and “The Man,” tracks blending the synthetic haze pouring from the Weeknd’s House of Balloons with the tropes, and percussion, of the lean-sedated Atlanta trap pioneered by Future.Ģ016 saw cosigns from Drake’s OVO Sound Radio and Kylie Jenner (via her Snapchat), in addition to a well-received guest appearance and production credit on Travis Scott’s Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight 2017 has seen Nav signed to the Weeknd’s XO imprint and releasing two mixtapes under its aegis: a self-produced and self-titled mixtape in February, succeeded by Perfect Timing, a collaboration with Future’s prime producer Metro Boomin, which dropped last Friday. Navraj Singh Goraya, the Toronto-area producer-rapper more commonly known as Nav, occupies a curious position in the landscape of contemporary hip-hop. NAV has also toured as main support for The Weeknd.Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Republic Record Metro won BET's Producer Of The Year for the second consecutive year & has worked alongside some of the biggest names in hip-hop including: Drake, Big Sean, Migos, Future, Post Malone, Playboi Carti, Offset, Lil Uzi Vert & 21 Savage. The project includes guest features including: Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, Offset, Playboi Carti & Belly. NAV, named one of Rolling Stone's '10 New Artists You Need To Know,' & Metro Boomin, one of the industry's most famous producers, to release mixtape Perfect Timing.
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