Travis Scott has become one of the biggest stars in music, but things almost went a very different way for the “Sicko Mode” rapper.
In a new interview with GQ, Scott revealed that while he was growing up, he had a longstanding desire to become a nephrologist — a kidney doctor.
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Scott said that the desire was born when he went to a sleepover at a friend’s house when he was in grammar school.
“We went to his crib,” he said. “His crib was crazy. I’ve never seen a crib like this. It was OD. His dad was an ob-gyn. And I remember his uncle was at the house, and I asked his uncle, I was like, ‘What do you do?’ And he’s like, ‘I’m a nephrologist.’ He told me what it was, and I was like, ‘Yo, it’s crazy.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to be that.'”
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“I don’t know why being a kidney doctor was just such… I think it was his swag,” he continued. “Like, his whole swag was just, like, he was fresh. I don’t know. It was the idea of just, like, saving people at the time was dope.”
The rapper said that he remained interested in that career path through middle school and high school, and even up until he entered college at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
“I used to go and shadow at the hospitals. So I fell in love with it more there, just the whole process of it all,” he explained. “I wanted to own my own practice, know the business side of it, do the medicine side of it.”
Elsewhere in the story, Travis Scott reflected on the impact that the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy has had on him, admitting he “always thinks about it.”
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“Making music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things,” he said of working on his latest album UTOPIA. “That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating.
“And when it came to making, like even finishing the album…I got back into it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months after. And the idea of just even getting back into music, working on music and just even getting into that, was therapeutic of being able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.”
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Asked about whether he was in a good state after the crowd crush, the Houston native replied: “Nah, not at all. I mean I was just overly devastated, you know. Yeah. I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the utmost.”
