The Record.

Rolling Stone

Feature

For Skir713, Everything Has a Price—and a Soundtrack.

On TODO CUESTA and PAIN MADE ME, Skir713 sketches two sides of the same Houston night: the hunger that sends you into the streets and the memories that follow you home. The first album treats ambition like a debt that must be collected; the second considers what that collection costs. Beneath the dark luxury and 713 allegiance is a more uncomfortable question: what does winning actually fix?

Rolling Stone · 2026

Billboard

Feature

Skir713 Builds a Two-Album Introduction Around Houston Roots and Melodic Ambition.

With TODO CUESTA and PAIN MADE ME, Skir713 gives his emerging identity both an edge and an emotional center. Bilingual attitude and Southern trap urgency establish the foundation, while melodic hooks make room for stories about loyalty, pressure, and the people success cannot replace.

Billboard · 2026

Complex

Feature

Same City. Different Pain. Welcome to Skir713's World.

The cars are black, the pavement is wet, and even the skyline looks like it knows something it won't say. Skir713 understands the world he's building. TODO CUESTA is the demand for a better life; PAIN MADE ME is the conversation you have with yourself once nobody else is listening.

Complex · 2026

XXL

Feature

Skir713 Puts the Weight of the Come-Up Behind His 713 Pride.

Across TODO CUESTA and PAIN MADE ME, Skir713 keeps hunger and hurt within arm's reach. His strongest idea is also his simplest: loyalty gets expensive, ambition gets lonely, and representing home means carrying more than an area code.

XXL · 2026

Pitchfork

Review

Behind Skir713's Dark Luxury, the Past Refuses to Disappear.

The visual language of Skir713's two albums is conspicuously expensive; their emotional premise is that very little can actually be bought back. TODO CUESTA frames survival as a transaction, while PAIN MADE ME examines the residue. The pairing becomes most compelling where its bravado starts to fray.

Pitchfork · 2026

Billboard Emerging Artists

Skir713

PEAK

#14

Spotify Viral 50 — US

TODO CUESTA

PEAK

#11

Apple Music Hip-Hop — US

PAIN MADE ME

PEAK

#38

Houston Hip-Hop Awards

Best New Artist

Houston Hip-Hop Awards

Best Project

House of Blues Houston

Houston, TX

White Oak Music Hall

Houston, TX

Warehouse Live

Houston, TX