50 Fun Facts About Travis Scott

What is Travis Scott's real name?

Jacques Bermon Webster II. He was named after his father, a drummer who bought him his first drum kit when he was three.

Travis Scott grew up mostly in which middle-class suburb on the south-west edge of Houston?

Missouri City. There he joined his high school's thespian society and sang 'Too Darn Hot' in a production of Kiss Me, Kate.

Which pop star took Travis Scott on the road as her opening act across North America in 2016?

Rihanna. He opened the North American leg of her Anti World Tour, a year after earning a co-writing and production credit on one of her singles.

Which Texas university did Travis Scott drop out of in his second year to chase a music career?

UT San Antonio. He told his mother he needed money for books and a computer, then spent it on a flight to New York to start making music.

Travis Scott signed his first major-label deal in 2012 with which record company?

Epic Records. Kanye West signed him as a producer around the same time, so a newcomer who had been sleeping on a friend's couch suddenly held two deals.

Which Atlanta rapper sought out Travis Scott after hearing his early beats and later signed him to his label?

T.I. Scott stepped off a flight to Los Angeles to find messages from T.I.'s camp summoning him to a studio, where the star told him to keep doing what he was doing.

What was the title of Travis Scott's first mixtape, released in 2013?

Owl Pharaoh. In October 2012 he said it was almost finished and weeks away, but he kept reworking it with Kanye West's input and it did not appear until May 2013.

Which British band features alongside Big Sean on Travis Scott's 2014 single 'Don't Play'?

The 1975. The track opens with lines borrowed from the band's own song 'M.O.N.E.Y.', sung by their frontman Matty Healy.

What was Travis Scott's debut studio album, released in 2015?

Rodeo. He explained the title by likening his career to riding a bull for just eight seconds: hard to stay on, he said, 'but we made it'.

Which nickname do fans and the music press use for Travis Scott?

La Flame. He stamped the name on an early track, 'Blocka La Flame', his own remix of a Pusha T single that he had helped produce.

Which Kendrick Lamar collaboration comes from Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, Travis Scott's first number-one album?

Goosebumps. A Spanish DJ's house rework took off internationally in 2020, and Scott added his own vocals to a new version the following January.

What did Travis Scott say his album title Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight was about?

His friends growing up in Houston. He said the trap he meant was a social one, not a housing project: the feeling of being hemmed in by parents or by life.

With which rapper did Travis Scott form the duo Huncho Jack?

Quavo. Huncho is his nickname, and the cover of the pair's album was drawn by Ralph Steadman, the illustrator of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Travis Scott's album Astroworld is named after what?

A closed Houston theme park. Six Flags AstroWorld shut in 2005, and he said that when it was taken away, a piece of his heart went with it.

Travis Scott, SZA and The Weeknd recorded 'Power Is Power' in 2019 for an album inspired by which HBO series?

Game of Thrones. The title is Cersei Lannister's retort when Littlefinger tells her that knowledge is power, though the lyrics follow Jon Snow.

Which music legend plays harmonica on 'Stop Trying to Be God', from Travis Scott's album Astroworld?

Stevie Wonder. He arrived at the studio late one night with his harmonica, and producer Mike Dean, who rarely records guests himself any more, would not let anyone else tape him.

Which singer reportedly sent a cease-and-desist over his vocals on 'Carousel', a track from Travis Scott's Astroworld?

Frank Ocean. He then wrote that he thought the song sounded cool and had approved it before release, and that he and Scott had settled the dispute between themselves weeks earlier.

Which rapper features on 'Sicko Mode', Travis Scott's first Hot 100 number one?

Drake. He opens the song and returns for its final stretch, yet the charts list Scott as the only credited artist, so the number one counts as a solo hit.

Travis Scott's 2020 McDonald's meal was the chain's first named after a celebrity since whose in 1992?

Michael Jordan. Scott's meal proved so popular that within days some restaurants were running short of the ingredients for it.

Travis Scott's 'Sicko Mode' samples 'Gimme the Loot' by which rapper?

The Notorious B.I.G. The sample sits in a song stitched together from three different beats, so the track seems to start over twice.

Travis Scott made a guest appearance at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show headlined by which band?

Maroon 5. Scott agreed to appear only after the NFL joined him in giving $500,000 to Dream Corps, a social-justice group founded by Van Jones.

What was the name of Travis Scott's 2019 Netflix documentary?

Look Mom I Can Fly. It cuts his concert footage with family home videos, including one of him drumming as a toddler while his father shouts that the boy has rhythm.

'Highest in the Room' was notable as Travis Scott's first single to do what?

Debut at number one. Fans had first heard a snippet of it months earlier, as the soundtrack to a cosmetics advert for his then-girlfriend Kylie Jenner.

Which Travis Scott single premiered inside a video game during his April 2020 virtual concert?

The Scotts. It was billed to a duo of the same name, because his partner on the track is a Scott too, and it gave that partner a first chart-topper.

Which artist joins Young Thug as a guest on Travis Scott's 2020 single 'Franchise'?

M.I.A. Back in 2013 he had named her as the one artist on his wish list he still had not worked with, and the song became her first number one.

Which singer joins Lil Baby on the 'Highest in the Room' remix from the Cactus Jack compilation JackBoys?

Rosalía. The pair worked together again five months later, when Scott returned the favour with a guest verse on her single 'TKN'.

Which Houston singer joined Travis Scott's Cactus Jack label in 2018 after a breakout guest spot on Astroworld?

Don Toliver. Almost unknown, he put out his debut mixtape the day before Astroworld arrived and then stole the spotlight on its track 'Can't Say'.

Travis Scott's April 2020 virtual concert took place inside which video game?

Fortnite. A giant Scott stomped across the game's island as the scenery changed with each song, and the show ran five times over three days so latecomers could still catch it.

Travis Scott's single 'The Plan' was the theme song for which Christopher Nolan film?

Tenet. The partnership ran both ways: weeks later Scott premiered the video for his next single, 'Franchise', at IMAX screenings of the film.

Travis Scott's 2020 McDonald's meal was a variation on which menu item?

Quarter Pounder with Cheese. His version added bacon and lettuce and came with fries, barbecue sauce and a Sprite, while the tie-in merchandise ran to a McNugget-shaped body pillow.

Which Nike model did Travis Scott release in May 2019 with its Swoosh logo stitched on backwards?

Air Jordan 1. He called the pair 'a fresher version of my old play shoes', and the backwards Swoosh turned up again on his later Nike designs.

Which luxury watchmaker released a limited Cactus Jack edition with Travis Scott in 2023?

Audemars Piguet. The brown ceramic Royal Oak was limited to 200 pieces, and Scott nicknamed it 'the Chocolate AP'.

What is the name of Travis Scott's daughter with Kylie Jenner, born in February 2018?

Stormi. Scott has said he had hoped for a son before deciding a daughter was the best thing that ever happened to him, and his documentary shows him cutting the cord.

After ten people died in the 2021 Astroworld Festival crowd crush, what did a Texas grand jury do in 2023?

Indict no one. The grand jury declined to charge Scott or anyone else connected to the festival, among them its chief of security, though civil lawsuits from victims' families continued.

Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival was staged at which Houston venue?

NRG Park. About 50,000 people were on the stadium complex's grounds for the 2021 opening night, and the second day was called off the next morning.

Where did Travis Scott play his first solo show after the Astroworld tragedy, in August 2022?

The O2 Arena, London. Nine months after the festival he chose a stage far from home, and he used it to preview 'God's Country', a song he would release on Utopia the next year.

Which superstar duets with Travis Scott on 'Delresto (Echoes)', from his 2023 album Utopia?

Beyoncé. Scott had said years earlier that he wanted to make a record with her, and when it finally happened she helped produce the track as well as singing on it.

Travis Scott's planned launch concert for Utopia was cancelled at which location?

The Pyramids of Giza. The sold-out desert show was called off at the last minute over 'complex production issues', after reports that Egypt's musicians' union had tried to block it.

In which city did Travis Scott hold his replacement Utopia launch concert in August 2023?

Rome. A vast crowd filled the Circus Maximus, the ancient chariot-racing ground, and Kanye West walked on as a surprise guest.

Which of these directors contributed a segment to Travis Scott's film Circus Maximus?

Gaspar Noé. His segment sits in a 75-minute anthology that Scott wrote and screened in AMC cinemas the night before his album Utopia came out.

Which rapper features on Travis Scott's Utopia single 'Fein'?

Playboi Carti. Scott turned the song into a concert ritual, often running it ten times back to back, and performed it hundreds of times over the 80-odd shows of his world tour.

Travis Scott's single 'K-pop' pairs him with The Weeknd and which other artist?

Bad Bunny. He sings his verse entirely in Spanish, and although Scott had jumped on a remix of his 'Krippy Kush' in 2017, this was the first original song the two made together.

Whose album kept Travis Scott's reissued 2014 mixtape off number one by about 1,000 units in 2024?

Sabrina Carpenter. Her Short n' Sweet edged it 362,000 units to 361,000, but three weeks later a vinyl release sent the mixtape leaping more than 100 places to the top.

Whose album beat Travis Scott's Utopia to Best Rap Album at the 2024 Grammys?

Killer Mike. Scott answered the result online with a single raised-eyebrow emoji, and ended his own performance at the ceremony by smashing a stack of folding chairs.

Travis Scott credits which rapper, one of his favourite artists, with opening up a side of his brain to express himself?

Kid Cudi. Scott counted him among his favourite artists as a teenager, and in 2020 the two recorded together as a duo, giving Cudi the first number-one single of his career.

Which magazine's Freshman Class of 2013 included Travis Scott?

XXL. Writing in the issue, he called the cover a big deal back home, where the magazine was what everybody picked up, and said it told him he had to work even harder.

Travis Scott took the 'Travis' in his stage name from which person in his life?

His favourite uncle. Uncle Travis played bass in a family of musicians, yet Scott says his parents did not want him making music and cut him off when he dropped out of college.

Which cartoon's characters introduced Travis Scott's entrance at the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show?

SpongeBob SquarePants. A viral fan petition had asked for the show's song 'Sweet Victory' as a tribute to its late creator, Stephen Hillenburg; a short clip of it led into Scott's set.

Which console did Travis Scott promote as a 'Strategic Creative Partner' from October 2020?

PlayStation 5. The launch film for the partnership also unveiled a sneaker nobody had seen before, a Nike Dunk Low with the console brand's logo on the heel.

Which wrestler did Travis Scott escort to the ring on Raw's Netflix premiere in January 2025?

Jey Uso. The same night revealed Scott's song '4x4' as Raw's new opening theme, and WWE boss Triple H told fans to expect much more of the rapper.