text: Travis can we start off with uh what the name of your album is and what the hell it means cause when I saw it I was deeply confused
  My albums called Birds in The Trap Sing McKnight
  And Imma keep it short for this explanation
  But, its basically its you know
  Anybody creative thats kind of like been stuck and had a problem getting the idea out, it took me 8 months just to get the 90210 video out, with Hype Williams
  It took me six months just to get the action figure out
  It shouldnt take no one, no artist that long, you know
  Just to you know get something idea out
  Especially something thats going to culturally shift
  You know, the world musically
  Now the musics more towards the independent artists
  I feel like in a couple years
  We all be able to fly around and do what we want
   But Why Sings McKnight?
  Cause, I wanted Andre 3000 with the whole album
  I had this play idea, Act I, Act II, Act III
  And then later on I was like
  With the visuals I can make it more of a play
  But theres no way I can make a album out of a play
  Im too much of a rager for this shit to be like 
  For Stuff, for stuff to be to that you know
  I didnt want people to overthink it
  I didnt want it to look too much so I feel like the
  Only thing that needed to be complicated was my title
  People to understand it, and the music straight forward
  And thats exactly what it is you could have a party to this album and just let the whole album play
   What do you want to listen to?
  I want to start with the ends thats my favorite song even if you skippin around you gotta start there
  Travis Scotts taking over the show
  Its Travis Scott in the morning
  Its Travis Scott its HOT 97 in the morning
  Wait why do you get to talk
  Its Travis Scott in the morning, let him say it
  Its Travis Scott in the morning
  Hot 97, Ebro, Rosenberg, Laura Styles lets get it
  Ebro I dont know if you realize this
  Theres probably a pretty good chance, knowing Hot 97
  It will be Travis Scott in here at some point and Ill still be sitting in the same seat, its a pretty good chance
  I think what happens is they bump you out and keep me, in a order thats the order of operation
  Wait, Travis out of all the young artists, you are on what, your third project now, you were one of the artists I gravitated to first just cause I can understand what youre saying
  Im just figuring out Young Thug, like I was late to it, but the style of music that youre creating who, who were you inspirations, who did you pattern yourself after, youre 24 now?
  I looked up to M.I.A. and Kid Cudi man hes really one of the main dudes I kinda looked at and listened to all the time
  He saved my life
  He saved me from doing random bad things to myself
  Kept me focused like..
  Just through his music or personal relationship
  Just through his music because I didnt meet him til
  The first time I met Kanye was the first time I ever met him
  But I didnt really meet no Cudi until like earlier like
  Late late late last year when he came by the studio one time just to like talk to me
  What was it about Cudis music that spoke to you so much?
  I feel like he really dialed in on like, the youth and really dialed in on like, inspiration, how to inspire you
  His words were very selected, on like what to do
  I feel like he always made the soundtrack to my life
  Or anybodys life who was like going through the same thing
  If you a big Cudi fan you know exactly what Im sayin like, he says the exact same things you growing up with
  But makes it sound way cooler
  I went through this, I went through that
  My mom didnt have this, we had to go through this
  You know we had to go through Christmas to do this
  But the beats and everything just sounded like
  You know, the Nutcracker
  Do you think, do you think
  And you were saying off the air too
  Do you think he gets credit for being a cultural influence?
  Nah not at all cause I think, you know
  Cudi should be like a top tier artist up there man alongside
  With these other artists who like, are number one, you know
  I think he fathered a lot of, a lot of the music
  A lot of style of music
  Well, we know what he did for Kanye for sure, like
  Everybody talks about that
  Hes a good influence and you know, a good help
  His writing and his mind
  He makes beats I dont think people know that
  He made Sky Might Fall you know, he made mad beats
  He made some beats on 808s and heartbreak, hes super dope he can write
  Speaking of which, who did the beats on this album, on your record
  Vinylz, I always work with Wondagurl on every album
  Cant do a album without her
  TM, this kid named dax, Murda, Cardo
  Its weird though, I only have 4 producers or something like that 4-5 producers
  You wrote with and worked with Rihanna
  You wrote with and worked with Kanye West on several things
  Some other artists, I dont want to run through the whole thing But what else are you doing besides writing your verses
  Well when I first came into the game I made beats
  Thats what I did, I had to give people my own beats
  As a artist I lost a lot of lot of lot of time to make beats
  I wanted to focus on raps because I felt like when I came up here I wasnt the best rapper, I had the best beats
  I was doing Cruel Summer, I worked on Yeezus
  With those albums, like by the I got to Jay Z albums
  I was already having ill songs, so it just turned into me just giving people my songs, you know
  On Ye album or her album, so on
  I sat and worked with them on the whole album
  Whether it was for two or three months, picking mad beats
  Whether its different people beats or, taking out the drums
  Putting my drums
  How do you know how to like craft something for someone else
  I always see it, Ima tell yall something about myself
  I was always making music
   You were mimicking other stash
  Mimicking other artists, when I was 13-14 years old
  Making beats and making music just to get the sound, right
  And so like, I think every producer, any young producer
  So like when they make like their favorite rapper
  Made that beat, make the same rap just to understand okay this how they did it
   To Understand
  Just to understand it completely, okay the breakdown
  So when I grew up, I was like you gotta translate it to your own songs, so that kinda grew me up like welded me
  Im a big fan of people man, a lotta people feel themselves
  Thats so important that you say that because
  Not a lot of people come out and say yo Im a true fan and I love
  Who are you the biggest stan of youve worked with so far, musically
  Kid Cudi but
  But Imma say, Imma say, Ive been in the studio with Jay-Z dawg
  And at first I was not that a big of a Jay-Z fan bro
  But bro, bro, bro bro
  I dont even know how old this guy is 
  This dude, Ive never seen him pick up a pen
  I seen him do the Magna Carter
  This dudes freestylin the whole album, with facts though
  You know, him and Andre 3000 too though
  Lotta people be talkin bout Andre
  Like why he not dropping music
  Man that man has information man
  He know how to play the piano man like
  Frank Sinatra style, Beethoven style
   Do you have information on his new Outcast album
   Im not talking about that man
  I tried to get it out
  Its Travis Scott takeover, let me bail him out
  We dont want this to get crazy we want this to go right
  Whats your favorite
  Of the songs youve been involved in for other people, whats the one youre most proud of? The one they hear it on the radio
  Theyre like man thats a great record, Im glad I did that
  You know what, the most Im proud of is uhh
  The one thats not out yet man, the one thats not out yet
  Hopefully come
  I know that
   What are you sayin? I dont understand what youre saying
  So its Birds In The Trap, theres song you didnt put on it?
  No you mean a song with someone else, a collab, collab
   Oh you said a collab
  Like you worked on a record
  You worked on a Kanye song or a Rihanna song
  When you hear it youre like yes I love that
   What are you saying, I dont understand
   No with someone else a collab
  Oh I thought you said a album I thought youre sayin a collab
  Oh yeah thats what Im saying the song thats not out yet
   Oh its with someone big? its with a singer?
  Yeah its with Kid Cudi. Facts
  He says that based on Facts
  Ebro
  Well lets get into another record from Birds in The Trap Sing McKnight, what do you want to play man
   lets do that sweet sweet
  You gotta prep em sweet sweet then goosebumps
  Shoutout K Dot
  Thank you Punch bro, I love you, you the man
  Were you surprised like did you know you would get that done
  Or were you surprised when it got done
  Imma keep it all the way 100 man
  A lot of these features on the album
  I was surprised every time someone was like, Yo Imma at least try
  Imma at least try, when I hit up Brock shoutout Brock
  I need this K-dot verse
  I seen he had a show
  I seen they were singing Antidote and was doing it with them
  Like Im on Kendrick radar
  That was the second time I was him, I met him at the VMAs before like
  He walked up to me like yo man my names kendrick da da da
  Yo, your music is very inspirational, I love it, its like super dope
  I love your last album, I was like what?
  You be barring, bro you be barring Ns out like
  You be R.I.Ping Ns on the track man like
  You just walked up to me and was just like yo
  Im Travis, when I be rappin, I be really listening to your music
  Like this dude just said a lot of bars man
  These raps I got be lookin like this spaced out man
  Im like man
  Were you in the studio with Kendrick when you recorded
  Nah cause he was dropping that album
  I think he dropped the Untitled album
  So as soon as that album came out
  He sent me, Brock sent me the verse
  Like yo he hit you with the verse
  I listened to the whole song I always thought the song was so good
  Yo when that dude hit the high note
  I was like yo man this dude is on some other shit
  I think he really go in the booth and make moments when hes bout to kill peoples tracks
  I think they make R.I.P. tees when he bout to go in
  They press em up like
  We bout to do this Control verse
  We bout to do this Travis verse
  We bout to RIP everybody, like for the year
  We gon line up everybody grave sites
  Like, boom we got Travis right here
   the Khaled one, he went crazy
  I think he purposely..
  I be wanting to call him man, like who you mad at bro
  You be blacking out on these things like
  But thats the mental man
  And thats why he the greatest artist man cause he got that focus man
  Cause I dont care if its a feature, Im treating it like its my song
  You know what Im saying, and as a artist, thats how I treat the beats when yall see me get on a feature like the No Limit Usher joint I had to redo the whole drums on the whole thing
  I aint like the drums, I wanted the drums to be harder
  And You could tell someone like Usher like nah I dont like this the way it is
  Yeah, Usher came to me like if you wanna do the drums man take it over, and I was like, Thank You
  But thats gotta be a crazy honor coming from someone like Usher
  But thats what Im sayin like
  I be in the studio with these guys and like
  They be like yo man, please man just like
  Take the drums, take whatever
  Take this out, you know what Im sayin
  And I just be like yo ,this dude know how to turn this up
  This dude know how to do this, he know how to do this
  I can do this, I can get us all in a room
  And this is whats gonna happen, know what Im saying
  A few years ago, everybody was talking about you
  I think it was the freshman show
  You come through, and theres T.I involved
  Theres Kanye involved, theres nine different labels involved
  And the conversation in the industry
  Theres a thousand chefs in the kitchen
  Is it ever gonna come out
  Is the Travis Scott thing ever gonna
  Are you super satisfied you are out there you are fully a entity
  Yeah yeah its just so weird
  People think these dudes are with me all the time
  Thats just not the case at all
  I probably talk to these guys 3, 4, 5, 15 times a year
  Ebro
  You start at three and went to fifteen
   Three times a year
  I might talk to T.I. three times a day in one setting
  Right it just depends
  Who total do you work with besides those big names?
  It was a third one too?
  It was Kanye, T.I. and someone
   Nah nah nah Im only signed to T.I. and Kanye
   Have you talked to Kanye
  Travis: I talk to Ye every single day
   Whos crazier you or Kanye
  Both of us I cant say one of us is more crazier than the other
  Are there ever times hes going off giving ideas and youre like
  damn Kanye you goin in right now
  And there are times he looks at you like
  damn Travis you really got ideas man
  Yeah we really be looking at each other like damn we just really be like
  I have audio of travis and Kanye talking
  This is what is sounds like
  Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro, for 90 minutes
  At least minimum
  And I got a special verse coming for that in a couple days
  Ebro
  And we gotta talk about these new projects you said you were gonna tell us about
  And this is okay to tell us about
  Youre not gonna mess anything up
  No we got gonna mess nothin up, I got you
  I keep secrets, dont believe the hype man
  Hold on, you cant leave without telling us about the G.O.OD. Music release
  Cruel Winter, Im executive producing that album
  Its coming very soon, I wanna say like the top of next year
  Im putting the pressure on everybody, Im saying February
  How many songs done right now for Cruel Winter
  I would say we have a lot of songs done
  How many songs picked, I wanna say a handful
  We got a lot of songs done
  We just gotta sit down and lock in all on a wave
  Everybodys involved, Desiigner on there too?
  Kanye West, every G.O.O.D. music artist involved
  Every G.O.O.D. music artist involved
  Every G.O.O.D. music artist involved
  Every G.O.O.D. music artist involved
  Its like amazing, and you know
  We got like our illest friends
  And its going to be one of the illest projects
  But one thing I can say about this project is
  Its going to be very youthful, straight to the point
  Like the illest ever man, just like the best album
  What does that mean? youthful
  That means the kids that are not on the radio all the time
  Who really got the clubs going ridiculous
  Really have the fields going crazy thats what this album is for
  Real quick speaking of Kanye what has Kanye told you about your album, what does he think?
  Man you know honestly he called me like Yo
  I just finished the album on the Saint Pablo tour right
  He called me like Yo man I didnt know it was this crazy
  I heard you when you were mixing it but just yo
  It sounds way crazier listening to it 1-14
  Thats what got everybody so excited for Cruel Winter
  How I just finished that album like the last couple of weeks
  This is the album Travis working on the bus, yeah
  Everyone so confused
  Another one
  Pick up that album Birds in The Trap Sing McKnight