Hmm... Navy Blue

Sage Elsesser has been the underground's best-kept secret for years, bridging skate culture and pensive, cerebral rap. Now performing as Navy Blue, the LA-born, NYC-based artist is starting to make major noise on my radar. Following his 2026 album *Sir Render*—a project five years in the making—his jazzy, experimental hip-hop is suddenly spiking across college and community radio. We’re talking adds from KBOO in Portland to WKDU in Philly. If you haven't tapped into his dusty, introspective world yet, the campus kids are telling you it's time to wake up.