put respect on NAV's name
hip hop's new daily operation | 5.15.20
TheMotto No. 11. begins with a Canadian chart topper. Nope. Not Aubrey, Abel or Tory. It’s…
top of the world:
with back to back No. 1 album debuts, 2019’s Bad Habits and now 2020’s Good Intentions, XO emcee NAV continues to shut naysayers down. And Navraj Singh Goraya continues to hit media types (like myself) who’ve been sleeping on him, with smelling salts. Give this man his due. Dude is a sharp songwriter and captive collaborator who is clearly tapped into the melody and bounce sound of rn. Congrats to the self-proclaimed “Brown Boy”! Let’s read up ⏬
🎧 while wins pile up, NAV’s still working like he lives at his mom's
🐦 NAV explains his motivational tweets
😷 NAV on why he dropped Good Intentions in the middle of our global pandemic
✌🏾 NAV credits himself as the pioneer for mainstream "Indian Rappers"
👀 NAV talks working with Lil Uzi Vert + his vocals on Travis Scott’s “Yosemite”
change the culture:
Offset talks about quarantining with Cardi B and hints that the next Migos album may have a different name than first announced 🔽
While that gets sorted: put “Racks 2 Skinny” in rotation 🔻
she really can do it all: Rihanna chefs, too ⤵️
word to Swizz and Tim: Verzuz is that real thing! there’s been a big streaming boost for Erykah Badu and Jill Scott ➕ Jilly from Philly explains to Big Tigger her strategies ⬇️
and we’ll all be tuned in tmw night for Nelly vs Luda ⏬ this one could go either way!
allow her to re-introduce herself:
Compton-bred choreographer Charm La'Donna makes the change to recording artist ⤵️ see the new Epic Records signee’s “So & So” (lyric video). Much more on the way.
all across the atlas:
Billboard’s new series about how music industry professionals are adapting to the quarantine profiles Warner Records Senior VP/Head of Urban Marketing Chris Atlas. Unquestionably, Chris is one of the good guys. I’ve worked with him since his Tommy Boy days in the mid ‘90s. In addition to helping shape the careers of iconic figures from Naughty By Nature to Rick Ross, back in 1996, Atlas and I collaborated on a De La Soul CMJ cover. Last year we worked to make the Wale CRWN happen at TIDAL.
let’s get it started:
🔼 take us back to those powerhouse Bay Area ‘90s rap days (Ringer’s Rebecca Bodenheimer)
what more can I say:
thank you, Joyner Lucas for creating something dope enough for Will Smith to jump on so he could remind fools that he’s still got bars 🎤⏬
ha! I love interview Will 🗣 🔽
⤴️photo: danamo
I have two classics with the Fresh Prince. The 2018 Rap Radar Podcast in Budapest with B.Dot ⤵️
and the Bad Boys CRWN, with Martin Lawrence, at Harlem’s Apollo Theater four LONG months ago 🔽
what ‘cha gonna do?
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