May
09

Kanye West – Lost in the World (Music Video)

Tosten Burks is tost in the world. Posting this video because the song remains more interesting than anything Kanye’s done since. Maybe Watch the Throne and these recent G.O.O.D. Music album leaks have matched the gaudiness of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but none of it has been inspired or emotionally engaging enough to feel… Continue reading »

May
02

All Trees Go

Tosten Burks has also been described as beautifully dirty. Let this dirty, beautiful, beautifully dirty video for Sunday School standout track “All” be a forceful reminder that if you’re not yet listening to Tree, you should be. While the Chicago rapper may be flying under the Gawker radar, he is making music with intensely more… Continue reading »

Apr
24

ADd+ and Co$$ Go Green

Tosten Burks is the target demographic. Time for field results from 4/20. Those game-worn tracks that earned that grand honor of being played on repeat on such a holy day. May all your holiday activities have been full of Devin and Snoop, but dude, may all your future gatherings squeeze in these recent new smoke-stained… Continue reading »

Apr
23

BRKF$T Club – The Fellowship

Tosten Burks had a really good birthday. All hail the posse cut. The 2008ighties Crew, South-Chicago teens, shows exactly how it’s done on “The Fellowship,” a performance dripping in chemistry. Remember “Say Wassup?” At that time, you were down with the Top Dawgs, but that was the song and video that make you love them… Continue reading »

Apr
16

Casey Veggies feat. Tyler, Hodgy, Domo, and Earl – PNCINTLOFWGTKA

Tosten Burks is tired. You can argue that these Ladera loons are played out, but you can’t say they’re not all improving as artists. The absurdly titled PNCINTLOFWGTKA off of Casey Veggies’s new mixtape, the name of which doesn’t really matter, is grinning, grimy proof of this. Tyler’s production is just Neptunes enough to turn… Continue reading »

Apr
12

Mr. Brady & Elaquent – Saying Something EP

Tosten Burks keeps his head in the clouds and his thoughts so heavenly. The Low End Theory aesthetic sails south. Although perennially irrelevant as a hip-hop hub, San Diego is a logical host for such restless, sunset-stained soul. And with the city’s own Gonjasufi collaborating with Flying Lotus, and The Gaslamp Killer headquartered north to… Continue reading »

Mar
28

The Flatbush Zombies Get Laker Paper

Tosten Burks would have benched Kobe too. In which the acid-dropping Brooklyn horror-core revivalists reveal some rationale for all the scare tactics. “Laker Paper” is a trembling, uneasy piece of hazy Houston atmospherics with Meechy Darko and Zombie Juice verses that use the bleak beat and bleak world to justify their THC tendencies. “I limp… Continue reading »

Mar
28

Big K.R.I.T. Maybe Actually Finally Has This

Tosten Burks is getting money he can fold very easily. Live From The Underground is officially in sight. The first single, “I Got This,” is exactly what K.R.I.T. needs to get the album released already, an anthemic banger. It comes just in time too, when hope was slowly draining that he had a song like… Continue reading »

Mar
01

Hodgy Beats On: The Untitled EP

Tosten Burks isn’t gonna lie. He had to look up the world clairvoyance. We’re at the point where all of the mythology and controversy that fueled the Odd Future rise have become reasons why they originally got attention and not reasons why they still should. Earl is back. The cockroach has long been digested. Every… Continue reading »

Feb
17

Yelawolf moves to Slumdon

Tosten Burks has definitely gone Linsane. So Yelawolf debuts to high expectations and high critic cred (that’s what matters, right?) with an album largely criticized for being too poppy, and then responds with a project with a British pop songwriter? It’s the type of move that reads as gimmicky, but is delivered with a conviction… Continue reading »

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