NAV Essentials

NAV Essentials

If Drake is the 6 God of Toronto hip-hop, then NAV is the Baby Jesus. After all, the Indian-Canadian artist born Navraj Goraya first rose to prominence in the mid-2010s thanks to Drizzy’s blessing, but he’s grown into a global phenomenon unto himself, pulling the biggest names in rap and R&B into his orbit. As a producer, NAV prefers chill trap beats—like the one his XO label boss The Weeknd skates atop on “Some Way”—while as an MC, he embraces Auto-Tune, not so much to smooth his vocals as distort them into a trippy haze that enhances the after-hours ambience of the Travis Scott-assisted knockout “Champion”.

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