Nav has said the reason people hate him is because of the way he looks.
In an extensive sit-down with Speedy Mormon at Complex, the XO rapper opened up about his relationship with fame and said the reason people haven’t been loving up on him is because of his unassuming looks.
“The way I look, bro that’s gotta be it,” Nav said when asked at the 33-minute mark why people hate him. “They’re just tight. Yo bro, If I was some light-skinned dude with tattoos, the whole look, NBA 2K player looking type of dude bro, and I saw me, getting more money and having more fun, and getting more bitches, and clout, and whatever I’d hate me too.”
Nav continued by saying the hate towards him all began once it was revealed what he looked like, even noting that XO’s co-founder Amir “Cash” Esmailian went to certain lengths to hide his identity from the public.
“When Cash met me, I had like 4,000 followers and then he was like, ‘Are you attached to anything on your history?’ I was like, ‘Nah,’ then he just started deleting all the pictures, like archiving them or whatever. Then right after that I blew up and no one knew what I looked like. Some people thought I was Black, they didn’t know. That was when the hate started coming in.”
Nav has been coming to terms with his relationship with fame for some time now. In a notorious 2019 interview with Pitchfork, the rapper admitted to being really disappointed that TMZ didn’t wanna photograph him at the time, despite pulling out all the stops to get noticed.
“Fame is something I want, it’s a good problem to have,” Nav said. “I’m still not there, because when I walk out of fucking Delilah in L.A. and TMZ will be standing out there with cameras and not even take a picture of me, I get sick.”
He continued: “I get in my fucking Lambo truck right in front of them. All my jewelry on and they don’t even take one picture.”
In a recent interview with HipHopDX at his Demons Protected By Angels release party, Nav said taking mushrooms helped change his perspective.
“When I took mushrooms,” Nav said, “I looked at myself from a third person perspective and I was like, ‘Yo I fuck with you dude. Dude really do this shit. Dude really take care of his mom, his family, everybody else. Boys is straight.’ What? I’m real!”
Nav’s Demons Protected By Angels dropped on September 9 and features appearances from Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Future, Lil Durk, Gunna and more.
It’s not just that, it’s also cuz your raps causes it’s listeners to either want to start taking mental health medication or abuse prescription pills to help dull their ability to hear it just so they can make it through. Music is supposed to be for enjoyment, not for psychological torture.
With a face like his maybe becoming a VR rapper would’ve been a better avenue for him
“Hmm, why do people hate me? Is it my music being awful? No that can’t be it. Or people say I’m one of the most boring, generic artists to come out this past decade? Nah, that can’t be it either….I got it! It’s the way I look! Yeah, that’s it, people hate the way I look. They hate light skinned dudes wearing shades. Phew, okay. Now, back to making generic trap album #7825.”
Maybe people hate you because you’re a narcissist and your music is ass. You felt sick because you didn’t get snapped by paparazzi outside a restaurant? When the new wave of hip hop comes in and the singing shit is gone so will be your Lambo truck, wealth and bitches.
Sounds like he’s projecting. Nobody wants to be fat. Nobody likes being fat. I wouldn’t even trade places with Khaled cause he’s so obese. This dude is self conscious foh
Nobody even knows who the fuck you are.
Nah not because of the way you look. Because of ghe way you sound
He doesn’t understand net worth. Spending $400k on a car that depreciates is not an asset
He can’t be worse than French err Spanish… no, Moroccan Montana
He somehow IS tho
I’m from Toronto ain’t nobody listening to this garbage, it’s clowns like this that have no place doing any music, this goof needs go fry some curry
you stole from mandem – these corrupt “toronto” fks are going to feel the pressure in 2 -3. give away our music to these foreign frauds. their motto in Toronto is ANYBODY BUT A JAMAICAN ANYTHING BUT REAL RAP. now with the pandemic shut down people’s hustle for three years straight then want to act like there was no pandemic and everyone was free to do whatever so what’s your issue. same 24 hours in the day for everyone. FUCK NAV. Stop stealing from mandem taking from our plate and generating hate for our culture with your garbage and trash music!!!!
I only keep clicking on this guy’s articles because I read lazily and think its about Nas.
Everything about him is so boooring I’m snoring
only heard one song by him, the trash can fire that is “tap” and that was more than enough to hear
Nobody hate on you because your light skinned! Corny…
you misread the quote. he said lightskinned 2k looking tatted up dudes hate on him as he gets in his lambo lol
I remember reading some interview with this dude like 4 years ago or whatever and he literally said “I’m the first brown boy to get it poppin!” That’s when I knew I would never play a record by this clown.
Bunch of racist people in this forum. Get your money up instead of trolling, you hate the guy because he is humble successful and gets respect from all the big names in the industry. You think you can do better, prove it by making a number 1 album.