All eyes are seemingly on Travis Scott when it comes to getting his music career back on track following the Astroworld Festival tragedy that killed 10 people and injured hundreds more.
La Flame made the first small step over the weekend by reviving the rollout for his upcoming album Utopia. Observant fans noticed the Houston native had changed his Instagram bio to include “Utopia” once again having quietly removed it following the deadly events in November.
Whether this signals the start of a full-fledged album rollout remains to be seen.
Prior to the Astroworld tragedy, the rollout for the eagerly-anticipated Utopia appeared to be kicking into gear. Just a day before his fateful headlining set at the festival, Travis Scott released two singles, “Escape Plan” and “Mafia,” the latter of which features an uncredited cameo from J. Cole.
Before that, he was spotted in the studio with producer and right-hand man Mike Dean, who has mixed and mastered every Travis Scott album since 2015’s Rodeo. “HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! @travisscott,” Dean’s Instagram caption read, hinting at the album reaching its final stages.
With hundreds of lawsuits piling up and billions of dollars sought in damages, Travis Scott has come under fire for not taking responsibility for the Astroworld tragedy. But he is keen on being part of the solution to ensure such a tragedy doesn’t happen again at a concert.
As reported last week, Travis is spearheading a new concert safety initiative alongside industry-leading experts from the medical, music and tech fields. The group’s mission is to “aggressively focus on new technologies and innovations” to avoid such a tragedy from happening again.
Travis Scott Gives Fans Rare Update On 'Utopia' & Its Meaning
On the music side, Travis Scott continues to collect accolades and rack up streams in the face of public outrage. On December 15, ASTROWORLD surpassed six billion streams on Spotify, becoming his most-streamed album to date.
RIP to the dead but life must go on. Outside of fans who went to THAT concert, I doubt many underage fans are gonna boycott him just to make a statement.
You really love this dude or something don’t you? Every time there’s a story about Travis your dickriding him in the comments. The way he responded to his fans being killed right in front of eyes is a true example of what a pos he is. I see your comments on here saying you’re over 40 and critisizing the younger generation for stuff, yet here you are defending one of the most overhyped trash mumble rappers there’s is, not to mention he’s a scumbag.
“RIP to the dead but life must go on?”
Extremely disrespectful
You’re 100% trolling. I’ve seen your comments on other topics before such as the R. Kelly scandal defending him. You will say some inflammatory shit to get a response in the comments. I know you don’t actually support Travis at all. You and “Schools Out” and a lot of other handles on here are the same person, it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.
FYI: I only post as Real Talk (OG) I dont know who schools out is and defend who I want based on what I believe in. If you believe in cancel culture, we wont agree on anything so dont even bother replying to any of my posts.
If Travis dies its OK because life must go on, if we cancel Travis thats ok to because its time to move on without this corny n***a!
The real question is whether or not the industry treats him a different way now that he has this tragedy behind him. Audiences don’t care really, people have been convicted of all kinds of disgusting crimes and come back unscathed. Mike Tyson & 2pac got convicted of things that should have ended their careers but they experienced the most commercial & financial success after the fact. Most people just want to be entertained and don’t really care what the entertainer does when he goes home. The difference today is that activist groups and online boycotts can scare companies and platforms away from dealing with you at all. That might be what get’s Travis Scott in the long run. He better hope the companies he deals with have his back like Netflix has Dave Chappelle’s back.
Don’t matter how good the album is if he gets blackballed and his initial response to Astro + charlamagne interview didnt do him any favors. Probably best to sit out a year (most likely two) let the lawsuits and bad rep cool down a bit, then cautiously try again, maybe different name, different sound. Almost a rebrand for real. Contrast to before Astro only way I see him making it out
This article and its comments deserve to be farted upon…
Dont worry he’ll make an apperance on Sunday Service performing down the road and we’ll see if there some slight changes on his music by then at that time
proud boys use proud boy words like “scumbag” and other obvious loser lexicon – you need to get off the rap site and focus y’all anger at the white baseball coach and white priest who molested you to begin with, not us black dudes happy to be a man AT LEAST