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Peso Pluma might be on top in música Mexicana, but when he’s not listening to his own genre, he’s usually listening to rap and hip-hop. When speaking to Rolling Stone recently, Pluma shared his excitement to meet one of his favorite artists, Travis Scott.
“When I met Travis Scott and talked to him, it was like, ‘Fuck. Travis listens to me?’” Pluma told Rolling Stone from his dressing room before a sold-out show in El Paso in August. “I listen to a lot of rap and hip-hop and to know he listens to my music is crazy. It’s dope that someone at his level is listening to me and that I’m on his playlist.”
Pluma and Scott met earlier this year at a Miami nightclub, where the Pluma said Scott offered him some advice. “I got to say hi and we talked a bit about what I’m making,” Pluma remembers.
“He congratulated me and he told me, ‘Always be yourself,’” he says. “I’ll never forget that. He said, ‘Be how you are. Don’t change, because that’s what’s bringing the success.’ He said, ‘I was real’ and I’ll never forget it.” He adds that his favorite tracks on Scott’s Utopia are “I Know,” “Meltdown” featuring Drake, and “Fein” with Playboi Carti.
After a photo of Pluma and Scott at the nightclub was shared online, rumors automatically started to swirl that the two had been in the studio together. Several weeks ago, speculation only grew after podcast Agushto Papá noticed that a producer shared his computer screen in a TikTok video and revealed a folder titled “PP x Travis.”
Although Pluma did not speak to Rolling Stone about making music with Scott, the musician gave an update about his collaboration with A$AP Rocky: “You’ll be so surprised. To start, if you see A$AP Rocky and Peso on a song, you’ll ask ‘What the fuck did they make?’ But that’s the best ingredient of this [collab]: the intrigue.”
As for new music, Pluma said he’s been in the studio tapping into other genres like reggaetón and trap, but that his roots will always stand firmly in música Mexicana. He was also recently reminded of how his music is going global when he was stopped by Chinese shoppers at a luxury brand store who asked for a photo and told him “that my music was popping off over there.”
“These last few months have been crazy. It’s completely a new life we’re living,” he says. “I’ve learned to be patient, to be consistent, to always keep working, to focus on the positives instead of the negatives. Whoever tells you that fame doesn’t change you is lying.”
“We all change but it’s part of the evolution,” he adds. “Putting Mexico en alto es lo más chingón.” He also shared that he’s hoping to bring home a Grammy one day for Mexico.
Earlier this year, he flew his mom out to L.A. because she’s “always reminded me to keep my feet on the ground,” and because he was craving her cooking. He specifically missed her machaca, asado sinaloense, and sopa de fideo. “Está cabrón. There’s no comparison to your mom’s food,” he says. “Never ever.”
