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Travis Scott
La Flame
Travis Scott performing at Basel Castle in 2013
Background information
Birth nameJacques Webster
Also known asLa Flame
Born (1992-04-30) April 30, 1992 (age 32)
OriginHouston, Texas, United States
Occupation(s)Rapper, record producer
Instrument(s)Vocals, Drum Machine, Keyboard
Years active2009–present
LabelsVery G.O.O.D. Beats, Grand Hustle, Epic
Websitetravisscott.com

Jacques Webster (born April 30, 1992), better known by his stage name Travis Scott (stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer from Houston, Texas. In 2012, Scott signed to Epic Records before eventually signing to Kanye West's GOOD Music production wing known as Very G.O.O.D. Beats, in November of the same year, as an in-house producer, after appearing on the label's debut compilation Cruel Summer (2012). In April 2013, it was announced he signed with T.I.'s Grand Hustle imprint. He released his first official full-length project, an album titled Owl Pharaoh, on May 21, 2013.

Early life

Born Jacques Webster, on April 30, 1992, he was born in Houston, Texas. Although he was born in Houston, he grew up in Missouri City, an affluent suburban area outside Houston and attended Elkins High School. Normally, Scott would stay with his grandmother, while his mother worked for the company Apple, and his father ran his own business. Scott used to skip school to meet up with Mike Dean for studio sessions. Scott also worked with classmate Chris Holloway, dropping a mixtape titled "The Graduates". Scott said he was a nerd in high school. Scott attended the The University of Texas at Austin as well as University of Texas at San Antonio before dropping out.[1][2]

Career

2009–2012: Musical beginnings and record deals

Scott began to produce beats at the age of 16, and then made his first musical relationship with longtime friend, Chris Holloway named The Graduates. They released their first EP on Myspace in 2009. In 2010, he formed a duo with OG Chess, named The Classmates. They released two full projects, the first one named Buddy Rich, and the second named Cruis'n USA in 2011, with Scott producing all of the songs. After personal differences & financial disputes, OG Chess and Scott broke up in late 2011.

Scott moved to Los Angeles from Texas after dropping out of college. Scott, with help from his friend Mike Waxx, who owns the website Illroots, started to record and release music. T.I. listened to one of Scott's songs titled "Lights (Love Sick)", which he released while staying in Los Angeles, and contacted Scott, asking him to come down to a studio. T.I. then freestyled a verse over for Scott's song "Animal". Scott then acquired the phone number of Kanye West's engineer, Anthony Kilhoffer and organised a meeting which allowed him to play his music for him. Kilhoffer then took Scott under his wing, and through Kilhoffer, he met Kanye West while in New York. Scott worked with Kanye on his debut project, Owl Pharaoh, which has been delayed numerous times, and GOOD Music's debut compilation album, Cruel Summer. Scott co-produced the songs, "To The World", "The Morning" and "Don't Like", and also produced and contributed a verse to "Sin City".[3] Scott has also directed a number of music videos, such as "Brake Lights" for fellow former Very GOOD Beats labelmate, Hit-Boy.

2012–2013: Owl Pharaoh

Owl Pharaoh was supposed to be released for free in mid-2012. It was delayed however, and then slated for a late 2012 release. After re-making the project[4] with help from Kanye West, Mike Dean and Anthony Kilhoffer it was again, delayed for sample clearance issues. In January 2013, Scott was featured on fellow G.O.O.D. Music member, Pusha T's album, Wrath of Caine on the track "Blocka" produced by Young Chop. Shortly afterwards, Scott released his own version of "Blocka", entitled "Blocka La Flame", which featured additional production from Mike Dean and Scott himself. On March 22, 2013, Scott released another single off his album called "Quintana", accompanied with a music video. The song features Wale and was produced by Scott, Sak Pase and Mike Dean.

On March 27, 2013, XXL Magazine revealed that Scott was a member of XXL's Freshman Class of 2013. On March 29, 2013, in an interview with British DJ, DJ Semtex, Scott premiered a snippet of his next single, "Upper Echelon", featuring 2 Chainz. On April 2, Scott stated that Owl Pharaoh would be released on iTunes on May 21, 2013.[5] The full version of "Upper Echelon" was premiered on April 18 also featuring T.I. and the following day it was released to iTunes.[6] Then on April 23 the song was sent to Urban contemporary radio.[7] The EP would end up being released for free.

2014–present: Days Before Rodeo

Scott performed a supposedly new single from his studio debut album, which was tentatively named 1975 featuring Big Sean at the Texan festival SXSW on March 13, 2014.[8] Scott later confirmed via his Twitter account that the song wasn't called 1975, but it was the first single from his debut album.[9] Then, again on his Twitter account, he confirmed the name of the album, entitled Rodeo.[10][11] On May 5, 2014, Scott released the full version of the new single, now named Don't Play featuring Big Sean and the band, "The 1975," on his Soundcloud and Twitter accounts.[12][13] After months of touring between May and July, Scott took to his twitter to announce that he was releasing a new project named Days Before Rodeo, an album which would be served as a lead on to his debut studio album. On August 17, 2014, Scott tweeted a link to his website, which contained the tracklist and artwork of the album. Later in 2014, Scott released some snippets of Yung Lean's Song "Ghosttown" [14]

On the 27th of January 2015, he released two new tracks onto his SoundCloud account; "Nothing But Net", featuring Young Thug and PartyNextDoor, and "High Fashion", featuring Future, as well as announcing a Spring US tour with Young Thug and Metro Boomin as promotion for 'Rodeo' which is reportedly due to be released in the first half of 2015.[15]

In March 2015, Barbadian singer Rihanna released her new single titled "Bitch Better Have My Money", which is co-written and produced by Scott.[16]

Influences

Webster has stated that he is influenced by Kanye West, T.I., Bon Iver, M.I.A., Kid Cudi, Mike Dean, Bjork, Toro y Moi, Outkast and Jeff Bhasker [17].

Musical style

Webster's style has been compared to that of his mentor Kanye West and Kid Cudi. SPIN compared his 2013 album Owl Pharaoh to that of Kanye's 808s & Heartbreak and Cudi's Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager [18].

Discography

Free Albums

List of Albums, with year released
Title Album details
Owl Pharaoh[4]
Days Before Rodeo

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
 US R&B
 US Rap
"Quintana"
(featuring Wale) 		2013 — — — Owl Pharaoh
"Upper Echelon"[19]
(featuring T.I. and 2 Chainz) 		— — —
"Don't Play"[20]
(featuring The 1975 and Big Sean) 		2014 — — — Days Before Rodeo
"Mamacita"
(featuring Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug) 		— — —

Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name
Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Yes Lord" 2012 Audio Push, King Chip Inland Empire
"I Get It" Meek Mill Dreamchasers 2
"Sin City" John Legend, Teyana Taylor, Cyhi the Prynce, Malik Yusef Kanye West Presents GOOD Music: Cruel Summer
"Nervous" Wynter Gordon Human Condition: Doleo
"Blocka" 2013 Pusha T, Popcaan Wrath of Caine
"Enormous"[21] Hit-Boy, Cocaine 80s, Kent M$NEY All I've Ever Dreamed Of
"Back Up" (Remix) Chuck Inglish Droptops
"God Level"[22] none DJ Drama Presents: XXL 2013's Freshmen Class
"2 Fucks"[23] T.I., Chip, B.o.B, Trae tha Truth, Young Dro Hustle Gang Presents: G.D.O.D. (Get Dough or Die)
"Animal"[23] B.o.B, T.I.
"$hut Up" Trinidad James 10 PC. Mild
"10 2 10" (Remix) Big Sean, Rick Ross —
"I’m Leanin’" Meek Mill, Birdman, Diddy Dreamchasers 3
"Crown’" Jay Z Magna Carta... Holy Grail
"Vulnerable" Tinashe Black Water
"Familiar" 2014 Ty Dolla $ign, Fredo Santana Beach House EP
"Hell You Sayin'"[24] T.I., Iggy Azalea, Young Dro SXEW (South by East West)
"100 Bottles" Low Pros EP 1
"Fuck & Smoke" Trav, Meek Mill Push II
"Ghosttown" Yung Lean Unknown Memory
"Brand New Choppa"[25] T.I., Meek Mill, Yung Booke, Dro G.D.O.D. II
"Ya Digg"[25] Shad da God, T.I., Spodee
"Chimes" (Rmx) Hudson Mohawke, Pusha T, Future, French Montana —
"Juss Know" PartyNextDoor
"Company" 2015 Drake If You're Reading This It's Too Late

Production discography

Main article: Travis Scott production discography

Awards and nominations

Year Awards Category Nominated work Result
2013 BET Hip Hop Awards[26] Best Mixtape Owl Pharaoh Nominated

References

  1. ^ "Travi$ Scott talks about Growing Up in Houston". Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  2. ^ "Travi$ Scott on " Real Late w/ Rosenberg". Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  3. ^ "Travi$ Scott talks about working on Cruel Summer". Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Travi$ Scott talks about working on Cruel Summer". Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  5. ^ "Travi$ Scott interview with DJ Semtex". Retrieved April 12, 2013.
  6. ^ iTunes - Music - Upper Echelon (feat. T.I. & 2 Chainz) - Single by Travi$ Scott
  7. ^ Urban/UAC Future Releases | R&B, Hip Hop, Release Schedule and Street Dates |
  8. ^ "Travi$ Scott And Big Sean Perform Unreleased Track "1975"". Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  9. ^ "Travis Scott; Twitter". Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  10. ^ "Travis Scott; Twitter". Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  11. ^ "Travis Scott; Interiew with DJ MoonDawg @ 9:35". Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Travis Scott; Twitter". Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Travis Scott; Soundcloud". Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Travis Scott; Twitter". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  15. ^ http://www.crfashionbook.com/text/travis-scott/
  16. ^ Young, Alex (March 26, 2015). "Rihanna unveils new single 'Bitch Better Have My Money' — listen". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  17. ^ http://www.xxlmag.com/2013-freshmen/travis-scott/
  18. ^ http://www.spin.com/2013/12/best-rap-albums-2013/131122-travi-scott-owl-pharoah/
  19. ^ "Upper Echelon (feat. 2 Chainz & T.I.) – Single by Travi$ Scott". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  20. ^ "Don't Play (feat. The 1975 & Big Sean) - Single by Travi$ Scott". iTunes Store. Apple. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
  21. ^ "HS87 - All I've Ever Dreamed Of // Free Mixtape". DatPiff. Idle Media Inc. March 12, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
  22. ^ "Various Artists - XXL 2013's Freshmen Class: The Mixtape // Free Mixtape". DatPiff. Idle Media Inc. 2013-05-02. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
  23. ^ a b Vasquez, Andres (May 7, 2013). "Hustle Gang "G.D.O.D." Download & Mixtape Stream". HipHop DX. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
  24. ^ Ramirez, Erika (February 6, 2014). "T.I., 'Hell You Sayin'' Feat. Iggy Azalea, Young Dro & Travi$ Scott: Exclusive Song Premiere". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  25. ^ a b "Hustle Gang – G.D.O.D. II // Free Mixtape". DatPiff. Idle Media Inc. 2014-09-19. Retrieved 2014-09-21.
  26. ^ "KENDRICK LAMAR LEADS BET HIP-HOP AWARDS NOMINATIONS". Retrieved 2015-03-20.

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