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Travis Scott revisits his most famous songs, how he came up with his "It's Lit" ad-lib, and his acting debut in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'.
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00:00Wait, this might be wrong.
00:01They fucked that up.
00:02I spent years mixing this shit and you don't understand what I'm saying?
00:11It's lit.
00:14I think it's like an ad lib.
00:17Maybe an antidote?
00:19I feel like it might have been an antidote.
00:23I was so turnt this day and excited.
00:27It's the first thing that came to my mind.
00:29And I think I screamed it so loud it sounded like I was like yelling in a high-pitched voice.
00:35And yeah, I haven't let it go since.
00:42Wow, butterfly effect.
00:49Song Special.
00:50I made this song about a special someone.
00:53And yeah, they lived off in the hills.
00:57I was in LA with Calabasas or where the fuck.
01:02Pulled out of the hood Toyota, drove back to the hood Lambo.
01:06Eaps in a trap.
01:07Pulled out of the hood Toyota, drove back to the hood Lambo.
01:11That Toyota is what got me through a couple of months because I didn't really even have
01:16a car like that.
01:17It was a shitbox, but I drove it.
01:22Like I wrecked it, spare tire, no tire, ride no rims, put water in the, you know, in the
01:30whatever the fuck that shit is.
01:32And then after that, I was like, you know what?
01:33My friends like drove me around everywhere.
01:35And also my homie Dozie had a Toyota Corolla that used to pick me up.
01:39And now, yes, we're going back in Lamborghinis, which is cool.
01:49We fuck by his cars and just like look at him and shit.
01:51Don't touch it.
01:52Man, you gotta drive that shit.
02:02To me, the beginning of the song is like psychedelic and like supposed to be like euphoric.
02:08Takes you through some sort of form of ecstasy, not the drug, but just the feeling of like
02:13seeing what you're trying to do and then life hits you.
02:16This is the first song on Asteroid and writing that lyric is like the second half of the song,
02:21like when it drops and I really wanted to create this feeling of like high energy and
02:28the travels that I've taken to get to where I was at.
02:32And, you know, like meeting people along the way, you're like, man, if you just knew,
02:36like, you know, what I seen or like, you know, the struggles I went through, you're probably
02:42like, oh my God, you know what I'm saying?
02:44This is so crazy.
02:45How are you even here today?
02:46You know what I'm saying?
02:46To now seeing, you know, at shows, you know, thousands, you know, hundreds of thousands
02:52of people, you know, I'm doing stadiums and stuff now that are there to actually like,
02:56you know, rage and have the best time ever.
02:59So, you know, it was good to see like the travels I took are inspiring someone.
03:04I feel like everyone can relate to, you know, coming from somewhere that might not have been
03:08the best situation or on what maybe you thought wasn't the best situation.
03:11You always want to inspire to, you know, do some greater phenomenal stuff for your family.
03:15So I think in general, people can relate with that.
03:18Cuddy was like that artist for me where I was listening to his music.
03:21I was like, man, I feel like he's living like the same type of house as me.
03:24Like, are we standing in the same crib, bro?
03:26Like, it's crazy.
03:26I feel like our lives are like similar.
03:29And so I've just listened to through that.
03:31I was like getting me through like every day.
03:33And it's like, okay, if he can make it to the other side, so can I.
03:36And so it was important for me to at least have something that people can like relate to.
03:40You know, so given that sort of insight, you know, hopefully they can come out.
03:43The other side is inspiring, you know.
03:49I'm the one they're introducing to you right now.
03:52Yeah.
03:53Fiend.
03:56Went on tour for two and a half years and people like got an understanding of what I meant by
04:01Fiend and just the energy.
04:03But yeah, you know, that was like a beat I made.
04:06And my whole intentions behind even just when I made the beat and made the song was to see
04:10it come alive like that.
04:11So to even see it like actually connect to my love was just fucking exciting.
04:18Kicking the camera off my stage is like, I snap my ankles.
04:22Yeah.
04:24Antidote.
04:26I had the song done and I had two verses on it.
04:30It's like, oh, I actually need a rap verse.
04:31Then I actually did this Hot 97, I think it was.
04:34And they had me performing, you know, outside the stadium, you know, beginner artist stages.
04:39And I think people understand, like, I don't like cameras.
04:43And especially I don't like cameras on stage while performing.
04:46And it's more so like an artistic thing.
04:48It's like this stage is meant to be set up a certain way.
04:50And obviously when you go to these like radio shows, it's a bunch of like everyone's
04:54trying to get content.
04:55You got people all on the stages.
04:56But I've always wanted to set a tone of performance in my performance of what I expect,
05:02you know, on any stage that I want to be on.
05:04Maybe how I did it to the guy might have been the right way.
05:07And I fuck with him.
05:08I know he's just doing his job.
05:09And I'm in that mode on stage.
05:11I'm just like all adrenaline.
05:13Yeah.
05:13You know, I fuck with that guy.
05:16No harm.
05:19She followed through plenty.
05:20Her and her guineas.
05:21We at the top floor right there off Doheny.
05:23Wow.
05:24Goosebumps.
05:25We at the top floor right there off Doheny.
05:28Yeah, this is the apartment I had in LA on Doheny.
05:30It's actually the apartment that I recorded Goosebumps in.
05:32You know, I was going through something and I literally just made that album.
05:37And it was like a therapy session for myself.
05:40So yeah, I literally went in the room and I did the song and I was like,
05:44yeah, but yeah, that apartment, you know, is how the Goosebumps came alive.
05:51Used to live up in the seven.
05:53Now I bought two streets.
05:55It's from a song called Father.
05:57My brother Ye.
05:58Used to live up in the seven.
06:00I'm from the seven one three, Houston, Texas.
06:02Now I have a couple of streets there, which is a blessing.
06:08Which is cool about this song is that we did this in Japan.
06:13We made, cooked this song on the spot, like random, just right there.
06:17And Ye just had this verse in his brain.
06:19Like, oh, I gotta get this off.
06:20And, you know, in our careers, it's interesting to see, like, you know,
06:24all the things he taught me from a mentor, from a music standpoint.
06:27To now, like, bring that and share it together on the record is, you know,
06:31it's fucking ill.
06:35A trick to break the walls of Troy.
06:38Yes.
06:39Yeah, this is the sixth line in the movie The Odyssey.
06:43A trick.
06:47To break the walls of Troy.
06:49Also, like, part of the original song, which I'm so happy that I am a part of.
06:54And especially for, like, a film like this, even to be in the movie is amazing.
06:59Like, you know, I'm pretty sure all these people are, like, straight thespians.
07:02Something I aspired to be when I was a kid.
07:04You know, to go through that zone and process to see how they work and things come to life
07:09and how they treat, you know, waking up at 5 a.m.
07:13and, you know, leaving at 5 p.m. or 3 p.m., whatever it is, every day.
07:17You know, even just the things that they went through shooting that movie.
07:22Like, everything is, like, so real.
07:23I, you know, praise what they do.
07:26It actually took me to another place.
07:28Like, okay, wow.
07:29Yeah, this isn't the studio.
07:32Chris called me.
07:33He was like, yo, you think you want to be in a movie?
07:35And I'm like, yeah.
07:36You know what I'm saying?
07:37I was like, man, I'm about to start shooting, you know, this movie called The Odyssey.
07:40Like, I got this idea.
07:42You know, it's telling me about, you know, the bard role and, you know, how the connection
07:46between even just being an artist and, you know, through rap, it's like a form of, like,
07:51in some sense, like poetry.
07:53And I'm like, okay, but what's the idea?
07:57He's like, well, I want you to open it.
08:00I'm like, all right, bro.
08:01Like, he's like, well, just come pull up on me.
08:03Like, you know, you can come see if you're down to do it.
08:06I'm like, of course I'm down to do it.
08:08You know, I don't give a fuck what it is.
08:10And, you know, I was just a little bit, like, kind of like thrown off by it.
08:14And I showed up the first day and I'm thinking, like, oh, it's just going to be me and him,
08:19a couple extras, you know, maybe like a couple castmates, you know?
08:23Nah, it was everybody, right?
08:25You know, and I was like, fuck, you know?
08:28When I saw the film in IMAX for the first time.
08:31Ah, man, it was wild.
08:33Like, me and my guy David was, like, kicking me.
08:36He was like, what the fuck?
08:37I'm like, bro, shut up.
08:39Like, you know, he's like, ah, this is crazy.
08:41But even me, I'm like, oh, this is insane.
08:45All of these O's, I made records out for, all of these O's, I made off records out for,
08:49all of these O's, they fucked that up.
08:52All of these O's, like zeros, like dollars, dollar amounts.
08:57I made off of these records I produced, which is also like a play on hoes.
09:02I might take all my X's and put them all in the group.
09:07You know, Sickle Mode is like another one of those songs where like, from a B standpoint,
09:13you know, shout out my boy OZ, man.
09:15And my boy, Tay Keith.
09:17Yeah, you know, that song was always like, in a sense, like special.
09:21You know what I'm saying?
09:21Just from a B standpoint.
09:23I always felt like, it's kind of like Fee and I, that song on the album.
09:27It's just like, one of my faves.
09:29You know, it was just one of my faves, you know.
09:31Whether it connected or not, I just thought it was going to be ill.
09:36I think I'm shitting on you, but I barely farted.
09:41This is Houston Fornication, I think.
09:46I believe it, right?
09:51I don't think I'm shitting on you, but I barely farted.
09:54Oh, not Hooch.
09:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:59Yeah, it's one of those girls that like, had an Apple Music radio show that I was dropping
10:04music on.
10:05It's one of the songs.
10:06This is one of the songs where like, you know, I do a song and I'm like,
10:09yo, I got to put it out tomorrow.
10:11And that was one of them.
10:12Yeah.
10:14It's the last days to the rodeo.
10:16Last night had me.
10:18Last night had me down in the back comatose.
10:22Wait, this might be wrong.
10:24It's the last days to the rodeo.
10:26Last night had me down in the back comatose.
10:29Yeah.
10:31This is Mamacita.
10:36Oh, it's not in the back.
10:38See, this is why I like, by the way too, a lot of my lyrics are wrong.
10:42On Genius.
10:43And I used to like call them all the time.
10:46Like after my albums come out, he's like, yo, bro, it's like totally wrong.
10:50I don't get how y'all get other people's lyrics.
10:53Right.
10:53That like I'm fans of them, but I know off rip.
10:55You can't understand them.
10:57Like you got to really know the lingo to catch these lyrics.
10:59Like, how are y'all getting this shit?
11:01And I know I'm speaking clear as day.
11:03Like I spent years mixing this shit and you don't understand what I'm saying.
11:07No, but I said last night had me down in a bad comatose.
11:10Then like part of this is not even proper like English.
11:12Like last night had me down in the back comatose.
11:15Like no.
11:16Yeah.
11:17So yeah.
11:17So yeah there's, like you go.
11:21Set back to my kick.
11:26Watch out.
11:27You
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