Travis Scott‘s Utopia has only been out for two and a half weeks, but it’s already spawned numerous strands of discourse, from the apparent debt its production owes to various scrapped Kanye West songs to the debate over whether its lyrics should have more extensively addressed Scott’s reaction to the …
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The 19 songs on Travis Scott‘s comeback album Utopia weren’t enough content for him. Nearly a month after its release, the rapper has expanded the world of the album with four new music videos. The visual release, dropped all at once on YouTube, includes “Hyaena,” “Sirens,” “Modern Jam,” and “Delresto …
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Travis Scott’s Circus Maximus event in Rome has renewed concerns about hosting concerts at the historical site after the rapper’s 60,000-strong crowd created enough buoyant movement to register a 1.3 magnitude earthquake. While Scott isn’t the only artist to perform at the Circus Maximus in recent years — Bruce Springsteen …
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Travis Scott has scheduled his first show in Houston since the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, with the city’s mayor Sylvester Turner saying the rapper “booked the Toyota Center for a concert in October.” Turner’s shared his statement yesterday after Scott teased a tour in support of his new album Utopia on …
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Travis Scott’s ambitious live premiere of his newest album Utopia, originally set to take place at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, took place in Italy on Monday at the historic Circus Maximus, an event stadium and park in Rome that was at one point the home of chariot races. …
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Charles Curle, a video editor and high schooler from North Carolina, duped millions of people online into thinking that he sold his house to finance a trip to Travis Scott‘s now-cancelled Utopia concert in Egypt. The 17-year-old says it all started with a meme. Following Scott’s announcement that he’d be …
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One of the prevailing observations of Travis Scott’s Utopia album has been how much it sounds like a Ye West project. Listeners have called out the bevy of features, momentous beat switches, and sparse, reverbed landscapes as noticeable effects of being around Ye as much as Travis has. Chance The …
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A third family of one of the victims killed during the Astroworld tragedy quietly settled their lawsuit against Live Nation, Travis Scott, and other Astroworld organizers six months ago, a source confirms to Rolling Stone. The family of 14-year-old John Hilgert settled for an undisclosed sum, and court documents filed …
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Travis Scott‘s determination to perform his new album Utopia at an ancient international monument is sending him to Italy. The rapper announced that in one week, on Aug. 7, he will bring his latest live show to Circus Maximus, an entertainment stadium and public park in Rome that used to …
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After his 2018 album Astroworld, Travis Scott reached a commercial steeple that allowed him to sell candles and McDonalds meals and Forgiatto rims and anything else he wanted to pick up and wail, “It’s lit!” with. He carried that eye for consumerism into his Utopia rollout to middling effect. Even …
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