Toolz
On Mic

Toolz On Mic brings bars, lyric videos and comedy skits, released regularly and posted primarily to TikTok and Instagram. His pen leans on dense, multisyllabic wordplay — stacking Triple, Quadruple & Quintuple internal rhyme chains within a single bar and holding that scheme integrity across full 8 barz without breaking cadence (Pull It Up — Last 8 Barz: Quintuple 8 Bar). Of Irish and Gambian heritage, he’s the lyricist behind HerbSyde’s two current releases, It’z Been Out 4 TIME! and its skits-and-bonuses companion tape, both mixed and mastered by BannDIgz.

Over 10 years before HerbSyde was a name, Toolz On Mic was already deep in the DatPiff mixtape era — and he features on every tape in that run, the main protagonist of the music from day one. His debut, The Pre TOMB, dropped in 2009; by Principium Finis in 2013, the whole tape was written and produced inside a single month.

The first four tapes weren’t just online drops either — they were sold physically in record shops, including Big Apple Records in Croydon. Next up: Cypher III, a HerbSyde back-2-back over a BannDIgz beat feat. Kayto & Yung, landing on the new mixtape “HerbSyderz” in Winter 2026.

Every artist picks up a tag before they pick up a mic — his came first. “Toolz” was the nickname that stuck from surprisingly young, for reasons that are exactly as obvious as they sound. It followed him straight into the booth.

Years before HerbSyde existed, a teenage Toolz would open every freestyle the same way — a flat statement of intent before the first bar even landed: “It’s Toolz On Mic.” One night he tacked an unfiltered word onto the end for punctuation, the room reacted, and a habit became a hook: “It’s Toolz On Mic… Bitch.” Shorten that to its initials and the tag writes itself — T.O.M.B., Toolz On Mic Bitch — the four letters he ran into the ground on every DatPiff-era tape, and the same four letters The Pre TOMB, The TOMB and The Pro TOMB still carry in their names today.