Don Toliver – Excavator [Video]

Don Toliver doesn’t just lean into the car-and-speed concept on “Excavator”—he turns it into a whole setting.

The track is one of the moodier pressure points on “OCTANE,” a project that’s explicitly built for the whip: music designed to hit while you’re moving, not standing still. “Excavator” fits that mission perfectly—heavy, nocturnal, and hypnotic, with Don floating in that half-croon/half-chant pocket like he’s narrating a late-night ride where the destination matters less than the motion.

The video is the real flex, though. Instead of the expected street-luxury montage, Don performs inside a historic telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory—a surreal, sci-fi backdrop that makes the song feel even more alien and high-altitude. That choice is smart: “Excavator” already sounds like it’s digging through layers—ego, paranoia, obsession—so placing him inside an observatory (all lenses, distance, and perspective) turns the visual into an extension of the song rather than just a companion clip.

The video is directed by Shadrinsky, and the track’s producer lineup includes BNYX, Jahaan Sweet, 206DEREK, and Money Jezu$, which explains why it hits with both polish and menace.

Bottom line: “Excavator” is Don Toliver doing what he does best—building a glossy, late-night universe you can step into—except this time, he filmed it somewhere that makes the whole thing feel like it’s happening above the world rather than inside it.