The Ones: Toosii’s “Just a Letter”
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Toosii - “Just a Letter”
Toosii was raised in Syracuse, New York, but spent his formative years in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is why his music resembles the emotional crooning of the South more than anything up north. His love songs don’t go the way you think they would: He falls so fast and hard that it borders on obsession. “Girl I’m sitting in the dark right now/Thinkin’ about you,” he sing-raps on “Just a Letter,” a remix of Rod Wave’s “Letter From Houston.” His love is driven by paranoia, made even more berserk on this song because of how the sample of Vistoso Bosses’ warm-hearted “Delirious” starts to feel twisted. Toosii may think he’s being romantic, but really he sounds like he’s in Fatal Attraction.
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Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
