In the coming months, Nav, who has opened for a couple of dates on Drake's European Boy Meets World Tour, will perform at Coachella and release a collaboration record with Metro Boomin. The record features a collaboration between the two, “Some Way,” that’s unfortunately not bhangra, but a glowing rap and R&B hybrid track that sounds like House Of Balloons-era Weeknd. In late February - just over a year since his self-released tracks “Brown Boy” and “Ten Toes Down” went viral, 10 months after receiving the coveted Kylie co-sign, and about six months after featuring on Travis Scott’s Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight single “Biebs In The Trap” - Nav released a self-titled album on The Weeknd’s XO imprint. From the thick of this sociological brew comes Nav, a rapper-producer of Indian Punjabi descent. It’s how someone like Ramriddlz, “an Egyptian kid from outside Toronto winds up singing dancehall songs,” can even exist. A lot has been written about Toronto’s ethnic alchemy, and the successes of Drake and The Weeknd have spurred unique conversations about the cultural negotiations that can happen here between young people of different ethnic backgrounds.
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