In 2018, Nav released his debut studio album, Reckless, and was the subject of numerous internet memes later in the year for his appearance alongside Gunna on the single "Yosemite" by Travis Scott, due to a technical error on the song that was later fixed.

The latter spawned the single "Turks" (with Gunna featuring Travis Scott), which peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song as a lead artist.

Later that year, Nav appeared on Internet Money's single "Lemonade", which peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song overall.

Navraj Singh Goraya was born on November 3, 1989, in Toronto, Ontario, into an immigrant Punjabi Sikh family, from Punjab, India.

[3] He began making mash-ups in high school and producing beats for local underground Toronto artists, and became popular on SoundCloud.

[4] Nav also mentions that he briefly worked as an Apprentice in the Electrical Industry as an Electrician before quitting to pursue his music career full time.

On September 4, 2015, Nav released one of his earliest singles on SoundCloud and YouTube, "Take Me Simple", which has accumulated over eighteen million listens.

[6][7] On January 12, 2016, Nav released the single "Myself" on SoundCloud and YouTube, which quickly became his biggest song at the time, earning him numerous cosigns, including one from American model and internet personality Kylie Jenner.

[8] On September 2, 2016, Nav was featured on and solely produced the single "Beibs in the Trap" by Travis Scott, as part of the latter's second studio album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, in which the song reached number 90 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after selling over two million copies.

[15] On March 16, 2018, he released the single "Freshman List", which saw him taking aim at the magazine XXL for not including him in their segment of the same name to highlight up-and-coming artists in 2017.

[16] On April 6, 2018, Nav was featured on the single "Maintain" by fellow XO signee Belly, which later appeared on the latter's second studio album, Immigrant.

[32] On June 28, 2019, Mustard released his third studio album, Perfect Ten, with Nav featured alongside Playboi Carti and A Boogie wit da Hoodie on the fourth track, "Baguettes in the Face".

[55] In an interview with Complex on July 21, 2017, Nav stated that the neighborhood he grew up in is very "multicultural" with members of the "Chinese to white to black to Jamaican" openly using the word with one another.

He also stated that he would not say the word in his music anymore, starting from his collaborative mixtape with Metro Boomin titled Perfect Timing, which was released on the same day as the interview.

[56] Nav publicly criticized XXL through a series of tweets and Instagram posts along with releasing the single "Freshman List" on March 16, 2018.

[59] However, he later clarified that this was taken out of context, as "sick" is in fact a positive term in Toronto slang, and rather than being disgusted for not being recognized, he is grateful to still have anonymity as a celebrity.

[60] Nav further stated in the Pitchfork interview that he hoped his latest project, Bad Habits would help him become more noticed by TMZ along with other paparazzi.