Does Travis Scott Know His Lyrics? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Wait, this might be wrong. They fucked
2. 0:02that up. I spent years mixing this
3. 0:03[music] shit and you don't understand
4. 0:05what I'm saying.
5. 0:09>> [music]
6. 0:12>> It's lit.
7. 0:13Um, I think it's like a ad-lib, man.
8. 0:16Um, I want to maybe antidote.
9. 0:19I feel like it might have been antidote.
10. 0:21>> [music]
11. 0:23>> I was so turnt this day and excited.
12. 0:27It's the first thing that came to my
13. 0:28mind and I think I screamed it so loud
14. 0:31it sounded like I was like yelling in a
15. 0:33high-pitched voice and
16. 0:35yeah,
17. 0:36I haven't let it go since.
18. 0:39What is life I cannot change in the
19. 0:40hills deep off in the maid. Wow,
20. 0:43butterfly effect.
21. 0:45>> [music]
22. 0:46[singing]
23. 0:49>> Song special, I made this song about a
24. 0:51special someone and yeah, they lived off
25. 0:54in the hills.
26. 0:57In LA, [clears throat]
27. 0:58Calabasas or whatever the fuck.
28. 1:02Pulled out of the hood Toyota, drove
29. 1:04back drove back to the hood and ball.
30. 1:06Deep in the trap.
31. 1:08>> [music]
32. 1:11>> That Toyota is what got me through
33. 1:15a couple months cuz I didn't really even
34. 1:16have a car like that. It was a
35. 1:19shit box but I drove it.
36. 1:23I wrecked it, spare tire, no tire,
37. 1:26riding on rims, putting water in the,
38. 1:29you know, in the whatever the fuck that
39. 1:31shit is. And then after that I was like,
40. 1:32you know what, my friends like drove me
41. 1:34around everywhere. And also my homie
42. 1:35Dozie had a Toyota Corolla that um,
43. 1:38he used to pick me up and
44. 1:40um, thank you Dozie. And now
45. 1:42yes, we're
46. 1:44we're going back in
47. 1:46Lamborghinis. Which is cool. What we
48. 1:49fuck about these cars is to just like
49. 1:50look at them and shit. Don't touch it.
50. 1:52Man, you got to drive that shit.
51. 1:54If I tell you to my past you'll will
52. 1:56traumatized. Got a thousand kids outside
53. 1:58that's trying to come alive. Stargazing.
54. 2:00>> If I take you to [music] my past, you
55. 2:01would be traumatized.
56. 2:03>> To me, the beginning of the song is like
57. 2:05psychedelic and like supposed to be like
58. 2:07euphoric. Takes you to a
59. 2:09some sort of form of ecstasy, not the
60. 2:11drug, but just the feeling of like
61. 2:13seeing what you're trying to do and then
62. 2:15life hits you. This is the first song on
63. 2:17Astro World and right now lyric is like
64. 2:20the second half of the song like when it
65. 2:21drops and I really wanted to
66. 2:25create this feeling of like high energy
67. 2:28and the travels that I've taken to get
68. 2:31to where I was at and you know, like
69. 2:34meeting people along the way. You're
70. 2:35like, "Man, if you just knew like, you
71. 2:37know,
72. 2:38what I seen or like, you know, the
73. 2:40struggles I went through, you'll
74. 2:42probably like, 'Oh my god. You know what
75. 2:43I'm saying? Like this is so crazy. How
76. 2:45are you even here today?'" You know what
77. 2:46I'm saying? To now seeing
78. 2:48you know, at shows you know, thousands,
79. 2:51you know, hundreds of thousands of
80. 2:52people, you know, I'm doing stadiums and
81. 2:54stuff now. Like that I did to actually
82. 2:56like, you know, rage and have the best
83. 2:58time ever. So, you know, it was good to
84. 2:59see like
85. 3:01the travels I took are inspiring
86. 3:03someone. I feel like everyone can relate
87. 3:05to, you know, coming from somewhere that
88. 3:07might not been the best situation or or
89. 3:10maybe you thought wasn't the best
90. 3:11situation. You always want to aspire to,
91. 3:13you know, do something greater for them
92. 3:14and yourself and for your family. So, I
93. 3:15think in general people can relate with
94. 3:17that. Cudi was like that artist for me
95. 3:19where I was listening to his music I was
96. 3:21like, "Man, I feel like he's living like
97. 3:22the same type of house as me like are we
98. 3:24standing in the same crib, bro?" Like
99. 3:26it's crazy. I felt like our lives are
100. 3:27like um similar. And so, I've just
101. 3:30listening through that I was like
102. 3:31getting me through like every day and
103. 3:33it's like, "Okay, if he can make it to
104. 3:34the other side, so can I." And so, it's
105. 3:36important for me to at least have
106. 3:38something that people can like relate
107. 3:39to. You know, so giving that sort of
108. 3:40insight. You know, hopefully they can
109. 3:43come out other side inspired, you know.
110. 3:46When I'm sipping that kombucha, you need
111. 3:48a pink straw. I'm going to introduce it
112. 3:50to the youth right now. Yeah.
113. 3:52Veen.
114. 3:53>> When I'm sipping that kombucha
115. 3:56>> Went on tour for 2 and 1/2 years and
116. 3:59people like got an understanding of what
117. 4:00I meant, but
118. 4:01>> Fein.
119. 4:02>> And just the energy. But yeah, you know,
120. 4:04that was like a beat I made and my whole
121. 4:06intentions behind even just when I made
122. 4:08the beat and made the song was to see it
123. 4:10come alive like that. So to even see it
124. 4:12like actually connect to my lovers is
125. 4:15>> [snorts]
126. 4:16>> fucking exciting.
127. 4:18>> Kicking the cameraman off my stages all
128. 4:20I had snap for him.
129. 4:22>> Yeah.
130. 4:24Antidote.
131. 4:26>> I had the song done
132. 4:28and I had two verses on it. It's like,
133. 4:30"Oh, actually I need a rap verse." Then
134. 4:31I actually did this Hot 97, I think it
135. 4:33was. When they had me performing,
136. 4:35you know, outside the stadium, you know,
137. 4:38beginner artist stages. And I think
138. 4:41people understand like I don't like
139. 4:42cameras and especially I don't like
140. 4:44cameras on stage while I'm performing.
141. 4:46It is more so like a artistic thing.
142. 4:48It's like the stage is meant to be set
143. 4:50up a certain way. And obviously when you
144. 4:51go to these like radio shows, there's a
145. 4:53bunch of like everyone's trying to get
146. 4:54content. You got people all on the
147. 4:56stages. But
148. 4:57I've always wanted to set a tone of
149. 4:59performance in my performance of what I
150. 5:01expect, you know, on any stage that I
151. 5:03want to be on. Maybe how I did it to the
152. 5:05guy may might not have been the right
153. 5:07way and I fuck with him. I know he's
154. 5:08just doing his job. When I'm in that
155. 5:10mode on stage, I'm just like all
156. 5:12adrenaline. Yeah, you know, I fuck with
157. 5:14that guy.
158. 5:16No harm.
159. 5:19She probably heard in the Guinness we
160. 5:21have the top floor right there off of
161. 5:22Doheny.
162. 5:23Wow, goosebumps.
163. 5:28Yeah, this is the apartment I had in LA
164. 5:29on Doheny. It's actually the apartment
165. 5:31that I recorded Goosebumps in. You know,
166. 5:32I was going through something and I
167. 5:35literally just made that album.
168. 5:37And it was like a therapy session for
169. 5:39myself. So, yeah, I literally went in
170. 5:41the room and I did the song and then I
171. 5:43was like, "Yeah, but yeah, that
172. 5:45apartment, you know, is how the
173. 5:47goosebumps came alive.
174. 5:51Used to live up in the 7th. Now bought
175. 5:54two streets. It's from a song called
176. 5:56Father with my brother Yae.
177. 5:59>> [music]
178. 6:00>> I'm from the 713, Houston, Texas. Now I
179. 6:02have
180. 6:04a couple of streets there.
181. 6:06Um which is a blessing. Which is cool
182. 6:09about this song is that we did this in
183. 6:12Japan. We made cooked this song on the
184. 6:14spot like like random just right there.
185. 6:16And Yae just had this verse in his
186. 6:18brain. Like, oh, I got to get this off.
187. 6:21And you know, in our careers, it's
188. 6:22interesting to see like, you know, all
189. 6:23the things he taught me from a mentor or
190. 6:26from a music standpoint. And so now like
191. 6:28bring that and share together on the
192. 6:30record is you know, it's fucking ill.
193. 6:34>> [snorts]
194. 6:35>> Um a trick to break the walls of Troy.
195. 6:38Yes. Yeah, this is the sixth line in the
196. 6:41movie The Odyssey.
197. 6:43>> A trick
198. 6:47to break the walls of Troy.
199. 6:49>> Also like part of original song which
200. 6:51I'm so happy
201. 6:52that I am a part of. And especially for
202. 6:55like a film like this, even to be in the
203. 6:57movie is amazing. Like, you know, I'm
204. 6:59pretty sure all these people are like
205. 7:01straight Thespians and something I
206. 7:02aspired to be when I was a kid. You
207. 7:04know, to go through that zone and
208. 7:06process and see how they work and things
209. 7:08come to life and how they treat, you
210. 7:11know, waking up at 5:00 a.m. and, you
211. 7:13know, leaving at 5:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m.
212. 7:15whatever it is every day. You know, even
213. 7:18just the things that they went through
214. 7:20shooting that movie. Like, everything is
215. 7:22like so real. I, you know, praise what
216. 7:25they do. It actually took me to another
217. 7:27place like, okay, wow.
218. 7:29Yeah, this isn't the studio.
219. 7:32Chris called me. He was like, "Yo, you
220. 7:33think you want to be in a movie?" And
221. 7:35I'm like, "Yeah." You know what I'm
222. 7:36saying? So he was like, "Man, I'm I'm
223. 7:38about to start shooting, you know, this
224. 7:39movie called The Odyssey. Like, I got
225. 7:41this idea." You know, he start me about
226. 7:43you know the bar role and you know how
227. 7:46the connection between even just being
228. 7:47an artist and you know through rap it's
229. 7:49like a form of like
230. 7:51in some sense like poetry and I'm like
231. 7:54okay
232. 7:55but what's the idea?
233. 7:57He's like well
234. 7:59I want you to open it. I'm like all
235. 8:00right bro like
236. 8:02He's like well just come pull up on me
237. 8:03like you know you can come see it if you
238. 8:05down to do it.
239. 8:06I'm like of course I'm I'm down to do it
240. 8:08you know I don't give a fuck what it is
241. 8:09and you know I was just a little bit
242. 8:11like I'm like
243. 8:13thrown off by it and I show up the first
244. 8:14day and I'm thinking like oh it's just
245. 8:17going to be me and him
246. 8:19couple extras you know maybe like a
247. 8:21couple cast mates you know no it was
248. 8:23everybody right?
249. 8:25>> [laughter]
250. 8:25>> You know and I was like fuck you know
251. 8:28when I saw the film in IMAX for the
252. 8:30first time I mean it was wild like I
253. 8:33mean my guy Dave was like kicking me
254. 8:36he's like what the fuck I'm like bro
255. 8:38shut up like
256. 8:39and I was like
257. 8:40>> [clears throat]
258. 8:40>> he's like oh this is crazy but even me
259. 8:42I'm like oh this is insane.
260. 8:46All of these hoes I made records I
261. 8:47produced all of these hoes I made off
262. 8:48records I produced all of these hoes
263. 8:51they fucked that up all of these hoes
264. 8:53like
265. 8:55zeros like dollars dollar amounts I made
266. 8:57off of these records I produced which is
267. 8:59also like a
268. 9:01play on hoes I might take all my exes
269. 9:03and put them all in the group.
270. 9:05>> All of these [music] hoes I made off
271. 9:06records I produced
272. 9:07>> You know the Sicko Mode is like another
273. 9:09one of those songs where like from a
274. 9:12beat standpoint you know shout out my
275. 9:13boy OZ man and my boy
276. 9:16Tay Keith yeah you know that song was
277. 9:18always like in a sense like special you
278. 9:21know what I'm saying just from a beat
279. 9:22standpoint.
280. 9:23I always felt like it's kind of like
281. 9:25Feelin It that song on the album it's
282. 9:27just like one of my faves you know it
283. 9:29was just one of my faves you know
284. 9:31whether it connected or not it just felt
285. 9:32like it was going to be
286. 9:33yeah.
287. 9:36He go shitting on you but I barely
288. 9:38farted.
289. 9:39Um
290. 9:41This is Houston fornication, I think.
291. 9:44Shitting on you but I barely farted. I
292. 9:46believe, right?
293. 9:48>> [snorts]
294. 9:51>> Mhm, shitting on you but I barely
295. 9:53farted.
296. 9:54Oh, not hooch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Think
297. 9:56I'm shitting on you but I barely [music]
298. 9:58farted. Yeah, this is one of those girls
299. 10:01that like had an Apple Music radio show
300. 10:03that I was dropping music on.
301. 10:06It's one of the songs. This is one of
302. 10:07those songs where like, you know, I do a
303. 10:08song and I'm like, "Yo, I got to put it
304. 10:09out tomorrow."
305. 10:10And that was one of them.
306. 10:14It's the last days to the rodeo. Last
307. 10:16night had me
308. 10:18Last night had me down in the back
309. 10:20comatose.
310. 10:22Wait, this might be wrong.
311. 10:25Is it the last days to the rodeo? Last
312. 10:26night had me down in the back comatose.
313. 10:29Yeah.
314. 10:31This is mamacita.
315. 10:32>> It's the last days to the rodeo. [music]
316. 10:34Last night had me down in the back
317. 10:36comatose.
318. 10:36>> Oh, it's not in the back. It's See, this
319. 10:39is why I like By the way, too, a lot of
320. 10:41my lyrics are wrong on Genius and I used
321. 10:44to like call them
322. 10:45all the time. Like after my albums come
323. 10:47out, I used to be like, "Yo, bro, it's
324. 10:49like totally wrong."
325. 10:50I don't [snorts] get how y'all get other
326. 10:52people's lyrics right that like I'm fans
327. 10:54of them but I know off rip you can't
328. 10:56understand them. Like you got to really
329. 10:57know the lingo
330. 10:58to catch these lyrics. Like, how are
331. 11:00y'all getting this shit? And I know I'm
332. 11:01speaking clear as day. Like I spent
333. 11:04years mixing this shit and you don't
334. 11:05understand what I'm saying?
335. 11:07No, but I said last night had me down in
336. 11:09the back comatose. Then like part of
337. 11:11this is not even proper like English.
338. 11:12Like, last night had me down in the back
339. 11:14comatose. Like, no.
340. 11:16Yeah. So, yeah.
341. 11:20>> [music]