NAV has teamed with lifelong friend and collaborator Frost for the new single and video “Pop My Shit,” shot on the streets of Toronto. Released in August through XO and Republic Records, the record pairs two Rexdale stories that started in the same room long before the charts, the arena shows, and the stadium dates entered the picture.
A Collaboration Years in the Making
Most featured guests get a phone call and a session. Frost got a decade. The Jamaican-Canadian rapper, songwriter, and producer is one of NAV’s oldest friends, and their creative history runs in the opposite direction most fans would expect. When the two first started making music together, Frost was the artist out front and NAV was the one behind the desk, producing his beats, recording his vocals, and engineering the sessions. That dynamic built the trust that runs through everything they have made since.
Even as NAV’s solo career took off, Frost never left the credits. He holds writing credits on NAV records including “Trimski,” “Good For It,” and “Keep Going,” quietly helping shape the sound from the inside. “Pop My Shit” flips the arrangement. Produced by Money Musik and TOOM, the single marks Frost’s first official feature on a NAV track and the first time the two have ever traded verses as co-lead artists. Built on heavy 808s and bouncing hi-hats, the record has them alternating lines the way old friends finish each other’s sentences, measuring everything around them against the life they have built.
Toronto All Over the Visual
Director Orazio shot the video in Toronto, and the city is not a backdrop so much as a third performer. The visual opens with NAV and his crew in the studio, surrounded by masked dancers, then spills out into the night. NAV and Frost move across the city in oversized luxury trucks, post up with their people, and cut through the kind of extravagant nighttime shots that match the record’s energy frame for frame. Fellow Toronto artist AR Paisley makes an appearance, underlining the home team feel of the whole release. For a rapper who named his 2025 album OMW2 Rexdale after the neighborhood that raised him, shooting the year’s statement single at home is a deliberate choice, not a default.
A Fall Run Built Around Home
The single arrived ahead of the busiest stretch of NAV’s year. On August 29 he hit the Summer Rap Music Festival at Red River Exhibition Park in Winnipeg, then joined Young Thug as the special guest on every United States date of The New Generation Tour, a Live Nation run that opened September 1 at Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas and closed October 4 at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. In between came the date circled on every Toronto calendar. On September 12, NAV headlined the first ever 6ix Mela at The Bowl at Sobeys Stadium, billed as North America’s biggest South Asian music festival, topping a lineup that included Tegi Pannu, Chani Nattan, Inderpal Moga, BK, and AR Paisley in front of 8,000 fans.
“For years our music lived in basements, banquet halls and one-off club nights. The crowd was there. The sound was there. The stage wasn’t. So we built one.” (6ix Mela)
That is the stage NAV walked onto as its headliner, the Punjabi-Canadian kid from Rexdale closing a festival built for the culture that raised him. The run did not end there, either. On October 17, days before this post, he was back on stage at the California State Fair in Sacramento, keeping the momentum rolling deep into the fall.
The Run-Up: NAV in 2026 So Far
“Pop My Shit” is one chapter in a packed year. In February, NAV and Young Thug linked on “Trimski,” a preview of the tour pairing to come. In April he dropped the surprise single “CURB,” a high-energy reminder that his pen stays sharp between albums. In September, one day before the 6ix Mela homecoming, he and Thug connected again on “WOAH.” All of it builds on a catalog that already includes two Billboard 200 number one albums, Bad Habits and Good Intentions, plus the number two debut of Demons Protected by Angels.
Toronto has a short list of artists who can headline a stadium at home, guest on a major United States tour, and still make time to put their day-one friend on a record. This fall, NAV did all three in the span of about six weeks. “Pop My Shit” is the sound of an artist fully settled into that position, and Frost standing next to him makes it a full circle moment for everyone who was there at the start.
