Travis Scott drops ‘Utopia,’ his first album for the reason that Astroworld competition tragedy
3 min readBy Associated Press
NEW YORK: Rapper Travis Scott has launched “Utopia,” his first album in 5 years and his first main launch since 10 folks died at his 2021 Astroworld music competition.
The star-studded 19-track “Utopia” options Beyoncé, SZA, Drake, Sampha, Young Thug, Playboi Carti, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Future, Bon Iver, James Blake, Kid Cudi, 21 Savage, and lots of extra.
The LP, Scott’s fourth full-length, was initially introduced again in 2020 and follows 2018’s “Astroworld.” In November 2019, 10 folks died on account of compression asphyxia throughout a large crowd surge throughout Scott’s Astroworld competition. A grand jury declined to file expenses in opposition to Scott earlier this 12 months.
Also Friday, Houston police launched information that confirmed that some staff had been involved concerning the crowd situations on the present. The 1,300-page report additionally included a abstract of an interview with Scott by which he mentioned he didn’t hear calls from the group to cease the present.
The first observe from the album, the popetón -adjacent “K-pop”, was launched on July 21 and options the Weeknd and Bad Bunny. The launch spans genres — an eclectic mixture of autotune ambient ballads (“My Eyes”), ferocious bars (“Looove”), futuristic lure (“Lost Forever,” Telekinesis”), and past.
In addition to the album, Scott hosted a one-night-only launch of his function movie, “Circus Maximus” at choose theatres on Thursday evening.
“Utopia” was initially scheduled to be celebrated with a live-streamed live performance on the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, however was cancelled as a result of “complex production issues,” Live Nation mentioned in an announcement.
NEW YORK: Rapper Travis Scott has launched “Utopia,” his first album in 5 years and his first main launch since 10 folks died at his 2021 Astroworld music competition.
The star-studded 19-track “Utopia” options Beyoncé, SZA, Drake, Sampha, Young Thug, Playboi Carti, Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Future, Bon Iver, James Blake, Kid Cudi, 21 Savage, and lots of extra.
The LP, Scott’s fourth full-length, was initially introduced again in 2020 and follows 2018’s “Astroworld.” In November 2019, 10 folks died on account of compression asphyxia throughout a large crowd surge throughout Scott’s Astroworld competition. A grand jury declined to file expenses in opposition to Scott earlier this 12 months.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Also Friday, Houston police launched information that confirmed that some staff had been involved concerning the crowd situations on the present. The 1,300-page report additionally included a abstract of an interview with Scott by which he mentioned he didn’t hear calls from the group to cease the present.
The first observe from the album, the popetón -adjacent “K-pop”, was launched on July 21 and options the Weeknd and Bad Bunny. The launch spans genres — an eclectic mixture of autotune ambient ballads (“My Eyes”), ferocious bars (“Looove”), futuristic lure (“Lost Forever,” Telekinesis”), and past.
In addition to the album, Scott hosted a one-night-only launch of his function movie, “Circus Maximus” at choose theatres on Thursday evening.
“Utopia” was initially scheduled to be celebrated with a live-streamed live performance on the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, however was cancelled as a result of “complex production issues,” Live Nation mentioned in an announcement.
