I was like, How did I just let this fall to the side?'
Its a beautiful process.
Yet, incidentally, the album itself was made rather quickly.
Ryosuke Tanzawa*
Im happy that they finally found a home.
Making music has been therapeutic for me and its held in a very high regard to me.
A monochromatic, infrared beam splits the frame, revealing unseen textures beneath.
Navy Blue spoke toRolling Stoneabout his new album, going independent, and what the future might hold.
Because I was thinking, well, okay, people havent heard from me in a second.
I just felt like sonicallyWays of Knowingwas very different than what my core fan base was used to.
And with these new ones, Ive been really feeling like, Wow, okay.
I was like, Huh, its true.
And I invested in getting a better mic.
So I think that these sound a lot better than a lot of the other music I put out.
I really like the first song, Take Heed.
I feel like that beat feels like the curtains opening in a way.
And then those drums come in.Yeah.
He was just playing me that loop, and he hadnt necessarily added drums.
And I started feeling that way.
But I was like, You know what?
What will it look like if I just do what I want to do?
Thats how I want it to feel.
Yeah, the flow on that song too feels like its evolving.Right.
It feels like drill drums in a sense.
I guess that comes from how inspired I am by my brother Thebe (Earl Sweatshirt).
How often Ive heard him kind of bend the rules and how youre supposed to rap on certain songs.
Im just like, Let me complete my thought.
And if I dont like the song at the end, then so it, Ill make another one.
And I have a go at not erase anything that Im writing.
Im like, Let me just honor what is coming through me.
And the other day he sent me the sample and I was like, Are you kidding me?
How did you even think to do that?
Theres so many chops.
Its very impressive how he made that.
I felt like I was doing something kind of new.
So its been two years, almost three that Ive been trying to make this other album.
So my full attention was on that.
So this one felt a little different.
I dont question the divine order of things.
Like, All right, this is how it was meant to be.
That was supposed to happen so I could makeMemoirs In Armour.
Of course, when it happened, I was frustrated.
But with a little bit of time, Im just like, Im not doing this on my time.
Whenever that time is, then thats the time that people will get it.
Its like, it was never my concern.
And I can understand how a system like that could clash with my beliefs.
You know what I mean?
its like an inner conflict that goes on.
And I think its with everybody.
You know what I mean?
Now that youre at this new juncture with your career, what are you looking to do next?
Are you looking to kind of figure out how to put that album out?
Would you write another album in between?I dont know.
I mean, I have tons of music.
So when I had finished that, I started working on the extension of that album.
So who really knows?
