NAV

Released: November 6, 2020

Songwriter: Cash (XO)

Producer: Wheezy

[Spoken Interlude: Conor Lamb]
It was a beautiful spring day, it was sunny outside. Uh, I had just come home from a, uh, little errand to the grocery store, and all of a sudden, bam, it just hit, and you—you could tell this was really different—instantly—from the other little tremors that we've had before. I mean, it just picked up with intensity. It ramped up. A gentle little shaking and things started coming off the shelves. Things started falling off our desks and you could hear this strange, eerie, creaking sound of all the buildings all around us, as they werе kind of shaken by this, uh, by the tremor of thе ground. (A tsunami warning has been issued.)

Navraj Singh Goraya (born November 3, 1989), popularly known as NAV, is an Indian-Canadian recording artist, record producer, and engineer from Rexdale, Ontario, Canada, a district of Toronto. His parents are both from the state of Punjab in India and are fluent in the Punjabi language; NAV himself is fluent in both English and Punjabi and practices the religion of Sikhism, the religion the majority of Punjabs practice.

Following in the footsteps of Canadian singer The Weeknd, the co-founder and leader of XO and a frequent collaborator of his, NAV has preferred to let his SoundCloud do the talking in the early stages of his career. Although going largely unnoticed at the time of its release, NAV’s first noteworthy production credit was in July 2015 when he helped co-produce Drake’s diss track towards Meek Mill, “Back to Back.”

After hearing a string of successful SoundCloud hits, including the self-produced “Myself,” in 2016, Amir “Cash” Esmailian,, the co-founder and manager of XO, reached out to NAV, giving him an opportunity to expand from the revolutionary music platform. NAV has grabbed numerous features since linking up with The Weeknd and the rest of XO, consisting of Belly, 88GLAM, and Black Atlass. His first and arguably most recognizable feature (which he also solely produced) is Travis Scott’s September 2016 song, “beibs in the trap,” from Travis' sophomore studio album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight.

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Emergency Tsunami (Bonus Version)

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Emergency Tsunami (2020)
Emergency Tsunami (Bonus Version) (2020)

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Emergency Tsunami (Bonus Version)