What exactly does Travis Scott do? Astroworld reference tracks leak

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He's the image.

This.

Labels manufacture these dudes up, and then get the people with the actual talent to make the material that the 'image" dude presents to the world. They mine lyrics and tracks from other lesser-known artists and market around what the label thinks would sell. There's no artistry with dudes like this. You get someone who has the machine behind him, and a lot of talented people who agreed to play the background in order to get a look or a couple dollars on the low. Drake's been doing the same shyt forever. Nickelus F groomed him up, wrote his shyt and taught him how to flow. And then signed an NDA when Drake got signed. Drake ran with that until he became known, and then started bringing in more artists who couldn't pop on their own, to provide those same services. They're try’na make this the norm now. Thing is, you see it a lot with the bigger artists. The ones who basically came out of nowhere and have no real history of actually writing or doing any kind of producing on their own.
 

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no differents between him and kanye as far as what they actually do in the songs past a certain point
still one of the greatest artist and live performers of all time :yeshrug: cant deny trav's discog
 

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no differents between him and kanye as far as what they actually do in the songs past a certain point
still one of the greatest artist and live performers of all time :yeshrug: cant deny trav's discog
Yah that's all
Your opinion :mjlol:
 

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His ear in undeniable tho he knows what works

I hate this logic, and I've seen it said 100x in this thread. And This isnt a shot at you who posted this.

If you know anything about music in the formal sense, you know what's good when you hear it. If you put a person around you who is a beast on piano, another at programming, it's easy to hear them play something and say, "yo play that again....repeat that part but not that other part". Add in somoene else is gifted lyrically and you tell them to repeat a line, or you change a word or two in a line.

Then you got a professional engineer around you to add effects etc, it's not hard to "produce", when that's the case.

that's why some of these hot "producers" fall off quickly, because the people around them change. The people who were doing the heavy lifting go on to other avenues. But if you have the star label attached to you, you can always find new hungry talent to replace them.

To be fair, I don't know what Travis Scott does or doesn't do. I'm not a fan of his music really, but I'm just speaking on this logic of, "he knows what's dope"
 
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I've never understood or bought into the Travis hype. Music or sneakers.

:yeshrug:

There was always something inauthentic about it. People throw around the term "plant" for a lot of people, but he always felt like a real plant.

Every step of his success felt 5 steps too big for the moment. He was "bubbling" before he was really "bubbling", he was "major" before he'd done anything major, and he was an "influencer" before he had a chance to actually be influential.

Plus the fact that most of his fans and custies are teenage white kids let me know that he was a product of good marketing. Nobody falls for marketing harder and has more disposable income than the kids of middle and upper middle class white people.



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But I do like the TS Nike SB Dunks
 

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This.

Labels manufacture these dudes up, and then get the people with the actual talent to make the material that the 'image" dude presents to the world. They mine lyrics and tracks from other lesser-known artists and market around what the label thinks would sell. There's no artistry with dudes like this. You get someone who has the machine behind him, and a lot of talented people who agreed to play the background in order to get a look or a couple dollars on the low. Drake's been doing the same shyt forever. Nickelus F groomed him up, wrote his shyt and taught him how to flow. And then signed an NDA when Drake got signed. Drake ran with that until he became known, and then started bringing in more artists who couldn't pop on their own, to provide those same services. They're try’na make this the norm now. Thing is, you see it a lot with the bigger artists. The ones who basically came out of nowhere and have no real history of actually writing or doing any kind of producing on their own.


I feel that way about Saint Jhn
 

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Yall eat hot dogs and don't care how they made. Why is this different?

No one does this with white music but we happy to do this to each other lol.

Carry on.
 
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