ASTROWORLD - Travis Scott 2LP
He was a gawky teenager from the Texas suburbs; he flubbed interviews and wore snapbacks. But when Kanye first saw Travis Scott's homemade video for his self-released single Lights (Lovesick), he invited him to the studio to work on Cruel Summer immediately. Skip a year and the 2013 sloppy mescaline-trip mixtape Owl Pharaoh foreshadowed Scott as one of hip hop’s visionaries. Another four years and he was riding a giant animatronic eagle through the air at arenas, a blazing stage presence even his tour mate Kendrick Lamar faced difficulty keeping up with. Scott’s third studio album feels like the grand opening of a vision which took a half-decade to perfect. Astroworld still uses the same psychedelic synth warps, diamond-cut drums, and reptilian hooks that initially skyrocketed him to stardom.
He was a gawky teenager from the Texas suburbs; he flubbed interviews and wore snapbacks. But when Kanye first saw Travis Scott's homemade video for his self-released single Lights (Lovesick), he invited him to the studio to work on Cruel Summer immediately. Skip a year and the 2013 sloppy mescaline-trip mixtape Owl Pharaoh foreshadowed Scott as one of hip hop’s visionaries. Another four years and he was riding a giant animatronic eagle through the air at arenas, a blazing stage presence even his tour mate Kendrick Lamar faced difficulty keeping up with. Scott’s third studio album feels like the grand opening of a vision which took a half-decade to perfect. Astroworld still uses the same psychedelic synth warps, diamond-cut drums, and reptilian hooks that initially skyrocketed him to stardom.
He was a gawky teenager from the Texas suburbs; he flubbed interviews and wore snapbacks. But when Kanye first saw Travis Scott's homemade video for his self-released single Lights (Lovesick), he invited him to the studio to work on Cruel Summer immediately. Skip a year and the 2013 sloppy mescaline-trip mixtape Owl Pharaoh foreshadowed Scott as one of hip hop’s visionaries. Another four years and he was riding a giant animatronic eagle through the air at arenas, a blazing stage presence even his tour mate Kendrick Lamar faced difficulty keeping up with. Scott’s third studio album feels like the grand opening of a vision which took a half-decade to perfect. Astroworld still uses the same psychedelic synth warps, diamond-cut drums, and reptilian hooks that initially skyrocketed him to stardom.
