Tonio Armani, Help Me Find My Drawls | Midnight Heat

In the 21st edition of Midnight Heat (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Help Me Find My Drawls” by Tonio Armani.

Ah, bring on Midnight Heat ! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo, and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. These risqué, unapologetic records often raise eyebrows and temperature alike. In the 21^st  edition of Midnight Heat (2025), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Help Me Find My Drawls” by Tonio Armani.

“So, I told her / If I come, I can’t stay too long.” Hmm, we know where this is going, Tonio Armani (Travis Antonio Gardner) . The southern soul singer/songwriter from Columbus, Georgia, continues singing on his entertaining 2024 single, “Help Me Find My Drawls”, “Soon as I get to the room / We got right down to it / We start gettin’ it on.” After getting busy with this woman who “wanna get nasty,” Armani is in search for his drawls, aka underwear.  The desperation is real, y’all – he’s got to find those boxers… or briefs… whatever his preference is!

Tonio Armani ‘brings the house down’ on “Help Me Find My Drawls.” His voice is distinct from the get-go.  He is gritty and raspy, oozing with soul.  The throwback vibes are refreshing as he ‘puts his all’ in this sex song. Yes, they ‘do it,’ hence why he’s searching for his undies, but, he refrains from being explicit or TMI.  Instead, his tale of this rendezvous is only secondary while the search for his underwear is hilarious:

“Help me find my drawls

(Help me find my drawls)

I got somewhere to be

Yes, I do, lady

Somewhere in the bedroom

Oh Lord

That’s the only place they could be.”

The southern charm and personality that Armani brings amplifies the song. This is especially evident in the extended outro where he still has not found them (“Oh, you got to find my drawls today”).  Making “Help Me Find My Drawls” even better is the musical backdrop, which is infused with the soul of old yet sounds vibrant and fully representative of 2020s R&B.

Tonio Armani // “Help Me Find My Drawls” // Armani Music Group // 2024

Tonio Armani, Help Me Find My Drawls: Midnight Heat No. 21 (2025) [: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Armani Music Group; Francesco Ungaro, Hasan Muneer, Natan, Tazz Vaughn from Pexels; AcatXlo, Aristal Branson, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay]