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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tosten Burks is about to fall asleep on the steps. The latest flourish from Exile and Fashawn shows the difference between hip-hop that promotes fun and hip-hop that simply just is. The two trade bars on top of giggling guitar stutters and the hoots and hollers of a cartoon peanut gallery, chaptered by an off-pitch […]

Tosten Burks #*&^ @*&+ing *#^~ mother ~#*% #^$* >&=* It takes time to get past the gimmicks of Queens rapper T.Shirt. The name might mock typical rapper-name nonsense, but that doesn’t make it any less dumb. Dubbing a video like this an “essay” doesn’t make it not blatant blog-bait provocativeness. Underneath the antics though, there […]

Tosten Burks has his seatbelt safely fastened. As the New Year settles in, a new weed anthem surfaces. To whom else would we entrust the responsibility other than the venerable Juicy J? In the midst of a mid-30s career resurgence – the fountain of youth is apparently in Lex Luger’s basement – Juicy jumps on […]