Navy Blue Gets Soulful in New ‘Red Roses’ Video
The independent rapper continues to craft an impressive body of work.
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Who needs therapy when you have Navy Blue the Truest?
The West Coast rapper, pro skateboarder, and model just dropped the video to his Nicholas Craven-produced song “Red Roses from his album Memoirs in Armour released back in August. Directed by Nicholas Stafford Briggs and Grayson Kohs in charge of cinematography, the video is centers around NYC rooftops, pigeons, and elevated subway tracks.
He starts off by rapping in his signature introspective style saying, “I guess you’ve learned a whole heap of nothing/Suppose you living with your demons, f—k it/ Thunder rolling with the punches that ain’t touch ’em/Living life without a substance/ I’m rushing such a feeling with the urgency of justice/ All these fluctuating customs, it’s all or nothing/ Sh— get shaky as your moral compass/ Life is but a series of adjustments/ Was ill-equipped smoking spliffs, too redundant.”
Navy then steps out of introspection bag and hops into his stunt one as he spits, “Me and mine winning, cheek to cheek grinning/ Steel Royal Oak with the Moon Phase in it/ That’s some fly sh– init? This a live n—a clinic/ You standing on business while I float above limits.” Then, he ends the song the only way he knows how — on some deep sh—t, as he raps, “I’m standing 10 toes, you gotta weigh the cons when you sense pros/The bloody thorn on a red rose.”
“Red Roses” is the third single from his eighth studio album Memoirs in Armour, having released the videos for “Take Heed” and “Low Threshold” earlier this year.
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