Toosii

One Liner: Heavily auto-tuned rapper and singer who I've already forgotten while typing this sentence.

Wikipedia Genre: Hip hop, trap, alternative R&B
Home:  North Carolina

Poster Position: 12
Both Weekends.

Sunday at 3:30 on the T-Mobile stage.

Thoughts:  Real name Nau'Jour Grainger.  Born in Syracuse, NY, but then moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.  He was discovered down there by the label that also signed fellow North Carolina rapper DaBaby.  Which likely explains why he's on this bill.

Never heard of this one for sure, but he's out there throwing music into the ether as quickly as possible.  2017 debut album (Why Not Now), and then since then he's released a 2019 album, two 2020 albums, and a 2021 album.  He's in a hurry to make sure that everyone gets a chance to hear him do battle with an auto tune machine.

"shop," his track with DaBaby, shows just how weak this is, as DaBaby is the only interesting thing on the track.  It's just some smeary auto-tunes singing where you can barely understand the lyrics, farting around over a mediocre beat, until DaBaby hops on the track and tosses out an efficient little bar.

"Truth Be Told" is the top track with 14.1 million streams.  This was on the 2020 album Platinum Heart.

Welp.  Yeah.  Plain jane beat I'll never recall, piles of auto-tune, and generic lyrics about getting a fancy car or having a nice watch and having sexual relations with the ladies.  Yawn.  One article I read noted that he was glad not to have any collaborators on that album.  "I've never been a big fan of features."  Maybe a feature or two would have been a good idea!

In a crazy ass story from an interview, Toosii says that his three best friends murdered his grandpa back when they lived in New York.  His extremely messed up quote is "You don't know how to feel.  It's your grandad, but those are your best friends."  Then, he says that he hopes they get freed from jail, although he probably wouldn't hang with them anymore when they do.  What in the world is going on there...  "Red Lights" even speaks to that experience.

Second most streamed is "Love Cycle," from the new album, 2021's Thank You For Believing.  12.8 million streams.

Guess he's still ready to get it on with the ladies.  He's all into collaborators on the new album!  The tattoo on his forehead that says Empath is interesting.  Just watched a video interview where he says the broken heart on his face is "exactly what it is" - not from love, but from what he's seen, ya dig.  As for the empath tattoo, it is because "the dictionary definition is a person with a paranormal abilities [sic] to apprehend [sic] the emotional state of any character."  Mmmmkay.

I don't need to see this one.