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About Travis Scott

Jacques Bermon Webster II was born April 30, 1991 in Houston, Texas and grew up across Houston and Missouri City — the Fort Bend County suburb whose Texas rap heritage runs through Slim Thug and Mike Jones and into the chopped-and-screwed DJ Screw orbit. He attended Elkins High School in Missouri City, briefly enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio, dropped out at nineteen, and moved to Los Angeles with a thousand dollars and a laptop. The early grind was real — couch-surfing through LA, internet beat placements, a publishing co-sign from T.I.'s Grand Hustle, and then a publishing deal with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music in 2012 alongside an Epic Records contract that produced Owl Pharaoh in 2013 and Days Before Rodeo in 2014. The mixtape arc — Quintana, Mamacita, Don't Play — produced a sound nobody else was making: psychedelic auto-tune over Houston-influenced beat structures, with vocal manipulation borrowed from Future and Kid Cudi and a production approach that treated every drop as a festival cue. Rodeo arrived September 2015 as a Pharrell-and-Mike Dean-shaped concept album with Antidote as the breakthrough single and a guest list — The Weeknd, Future, Quavo, Young Thug, Kanye — that openly positioned him as the next center of gravity. Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight followed in 2016 and put Goosebumps with Kendrick Lamar and Pick Up the Phone with Young Thug into the streaming canon. Astroworld in August 2018 is the magnum opus — a sixteen-track album built around Houston theme-park nostalgia (the original Six Flags AstroWorld closed in 2005), with Sicko Mode rewriting what a rap radio single could sound like and a critical reception that put it on every year-end list and most decade-end lists in hip-hop. He launched the inaugural Astroworld Festival in Houston in November 2018, founded Cactus Jack Records, and through 2019–2020 turned the brand into one of the largest in music: the McDonald's Travis Scott Meal in September 2020, the Fortnite Astronomical virtual concert in April 2020 drawing 12.3 million concurrent players, and the Nike Jordan Air Jordan 1 collaborations that defined sneaker culture for half a decade. The Astroworld Festival 2021 crowd-crush tragedy at NRG Park on November 5 — in which ten people died and hundreds were injured during his headline set — sits in the public record and shaped the subsequent industry conversation about crowd safety, barrier design, and festival production. He returned with Utopia in July 2023 — fifty-five minutes anchored by FE!N (with Playboi Carti, often performed live four to six times in a row as the crowd's signature ritual), MELTDOWN, MY EYES, Modern Jam, and K-POP with Bad Bunny — and launched the Circus Maximus Tour in October 2023, a stadium-and-arena run that has carried the show through North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Cactus Jack as a label has broken Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, and Sofaygo, and the brand empire sits behind a discography critics discuss as one of the most influential of the streaming era.

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