Navy Blue - 224

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Navy Blue - "224" from the 2020 album Song of Sage: Post Panic! on Freedom Sounds.

Skateboarder/graphic designer/streetwear model Sage Elsesser explores his musical side under the alias Navy Blue. Last year's full-length, Àdá Irin, was a confident debut (read KEXP's Martin Douglas' review here), and less than a year later, he returned with his sophomore album, Song of Sage: Post Panic!, another collection of introspective hip-hop. As Martin describes it in the February edition of In Our Headphones, it's "an illuminating tapestry of meditations on self-harm, colonization and ancestral weight, gentrification, anxiety attacks, the grief we carry throughout our lives, and the ties that bind Black people together."

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0:00.0	Quare survival is for survival and this time especially I'm going to show you so much struggle
0:06.0	You know where you struggle is struggle to survive
0:09.0	So we are a reason to struggle
0:11.0	There's a survival
0:13.0	There's a reality for our after-sur-life
0:16.0	2-2-4 from day five, deathly scorned by age six
0:20.0	All alone was sage crop
0:22.0	Tears of joy were paid fixed
0:24.0	Left to miss and learn some
0:26.0	Found a vice in these splits
0:28.0	Trust the flame made me numb
0:30.0	Same advice, have me bliss
0:32.0	I can't go to where I hide
0:34.0	My sun can't place, I ain't have a lid
0:36.0	Just like the pot I can say
0:38.0	Shame will have you missing limbs
0:40.0	I can say I love myself
0:42.0	Finally, I love you here
0:44.0	I can say I love you too
0:46.0	Promise I don't live in fear no more
0:48.0	I got proper dearest glow
0:50.0	Feel the spirit close
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