What exactly does Travis Scott do? Astroworld reference tracks leak

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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.
nah he def worked his way up, I remember when I first heard Owl Pharaoh and Days Before Rodeo and I loved them, but I felt like he wasn't going to get that major label push, he got lucky with antidote and with pick up the phone, that propelled him.
 

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I remember a few years back. Around the time Rodeo dropped. There was a thread on some cac claiming Travis stole their laptop with all their melody's beats, sound packs for fl studio etc. Not saying i believe that specific story but this ain't nothing new.

Astroworld is a classic though imo. Travis doesn't brag about being the best rapper or anything:manny: Funny though, i always tell people the lyrics the whole album are :trash: Travis literally don't be making sense half the album. A song like Stop Tryna Be God is a beautiful song. So angelic. But really look at them lyrics. Shyt don't make no sense:heh:The subject matter is bad to. BUT, i still love the album (even though the lyrics to production ratio is unbalanced lol) because of the production (mixing/mastering), the vibe, the psychedelic/euphoric feel to it etc. It's one of those albums if you're down, you can play it from beginning to end as an "escape". Homie off RapGenius (i think) compared it to entering a theme park once Stargazing starts (six flags for example), and by the time Coffee Bean starts it's like you're walking out, exiting the theme park, and you're on your way back home (back to reality/real life/regular life, and the psychedelics has worn off). I was telling my people that exact thing about the album way before i heard him say it. It's what Travis intended. He had a vision for the album and hit it out the park. And for that i can't even hate on it:yeshrug:

On another note. I heard the album so many times, and i know the whole thing by heart. I bet CyHi wrote/helped with these portions of the album



2nd half of Stargazing
A couple bars + the flow of Carousel
Sicko Mode both travis verses
*If Travis had a ghostwriter for RIP Screw (...and i COULD see cyhi penning it) he ain't shyt frfr:mjlol::mjcry:
No Bystanders 1st Verse, maybe the 3rd verse
SKELETONS 100000000% (first time i heard it i said he sounds like Kanye/CyHi)
Wake Up cyhi might have threw him a couple bars for him to use
5% Tint maybe, i think so
Who What cyhi probably penned some of it
Butterfly Effect - Hook + 1st Verse
Houstanfornication - Some of both verses
Coffee Bean i knew he wrote the whole damn song the same week the album dropped because i saw his name credited on RapGenius when i searched the lyrics. Me, and my folk was just joking about how we should of known he ain't write that shyt:russ:
*Gunna probably wrote Yosemite, and Can't Say probably was Don Toliver's song (Travis just recited the first verse lol)
 
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This is a fact. He stole a ton of Houston cats down here shyt to come up. He stole the whole Astroworld concept came from BeatKing. The thing about it is he has no real history in Houston. Claims he's from the Hiram Clarke area but no one really remembers him like that.

@ignorethis is this accurate? Thought he was from mo city?

the video I saw of him in high school he was with the whites and Asians.
 

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@ignorethis is this accurate? Thought he was from mo city?

the video I saw of him in high school he was with the whites and Asians.
He from Mo City, the nice part. He went to Elkins and was in a clique/collective called The Classmates/La Vita with a bunch of popular hipster Mo City nikkas.

Dude did steal from a bunch of local dudes he used to work with and presented their collective work as just being made by him.
 

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nah he def worked his way up, I remember when I first heard Owl Pharaoh and Days Before Rodeo and I loved them, but I felt like he wasn't going to get that major label push, he got lucky with antidote and with pick up the phone, that propelled him.

owl Pharoah, days before the rodeo, and rodeo are damn near perfect to me but I don’t know what happened and Travis became complacent
 

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This. Wasn’t he in a group or worked with some guys. Then stole their beats and songs to get put on then literally stopped fukking with them after that.

there’s a thread in here about how he did it
was his roommate/producer he stole from JGramm? He worked with him a lot on Owl Pharaoh and he did that single for him "Upper Echelon"
 
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