Don Toliver Goes Full Surrealist In Eerie Music Video For "No Pole"

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This follows Don Toliver's recent music video for "TORE UP" and his new song "LV Bag" with Pharrell and j-hope.

Don Toliver has been on a roll this decade, and it looks like he has no plans of slowing down. He just released a new music video, but the subject may surprise you. It's for the 2023 Love Sick deluxe cut "No Pole," and sees the Cactus Jack signee pull up to a supermarket with his driver. While Don discovers empty aisles with cold cinematography, the driver falls into a trance watching a stripper on a lamppost and fails to notice the quicksand – or quick-concrete? – swallowing him and the car. When Toliver steps out, we fear he might succumb to the spell as well.

Overall, it's a pretty creative concept with unorthodox presentation that came out around Love Sick's two-year anniversary. But that wasn't the only discog tribute as of late, as Don Toliver's new music video for "TORE UP" also came out recently. Like "No Pole," this one also benefits a lot from cinematic takes and a larger-than-life approach, albeit with more grit to it. It's interesting to see these catalog reversions come to life even months after they came out.

Don Toliver "No Pole" Music Video

But if you're looking for new Don Toliver music, he's even got you covered there. He recently released the "LV Bag" collab with BTS' j-hope and Pharrell Williams, which goes to show that he's making his presence and efforts in the game very clear. We don't really know if this is all a part of something greater or if we just found the Houston creative's team at a creative and casual time. Either way, kudos for challenging the notion that visual treatments have an expiration date, as you never know when the perfect idea will finally pop into your head.

In addition, there is plenty of speculation around what Don Toliver's next project will be. Some fans even thought that his new music teases hinted at JACKBOYS 2 coming soon with Travis Scott and company. Will that pan out? Who knows? But as Don's promotional gears rev up into high gear, we can't imagine that he doesn't have something big to share with his fans soon.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.