2023-07-29 11:16:07
American rapper Travis Scott will have finally waited for a court decision to publish, on Friday July 28, his long-awaited fourth album, Utopia, which is also accompanied by a documentary, Circus Maximus, streamed on YouTube. On June 30, the Harris County (Texas) district attorney’s office ruled that he should not be prosecuted for the fatal stampede that occurred during his Astroworld festival. On November 5, 2021, ten people, including a 9-year-old child, were trampled to death in a crowd movement while the rapper was on stage with his counterpart Drake for this event which brought together more than 50,000 people in his hometown. , Houston. Several complaints had been lodged against the promoters, site managers and artists on stage, who did not heed the calls for help from the public. ” It’s tragicconcluded the prosecutor, but a tragedy is not always a crime and a death is not always a homicide. »
Since then, Travis Scott had stepped back and suspended the release of this disc, of which he co-composed most of the nineteen tracks with big names in hip-hop production and electronic music, all under the baton of his accomplice Mike Dean. The cast of the album, which comes out five years after the popular and critical success of their third album, Astroworldis, indeed, impressive, and the least we can say effective.
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He thus experimented with James Blake’s trip-hop on two tracks, “Lost Forever” and “Til Further Notice”, in which rapper 21 Savage also participated. With ex-Daft Punk Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, he co-signed the remarkable and powerful “Modern Jam” and pushed singer Beyoncé to go even further in her journey between house music and techno on “Delresto (Echoes)”. He finds his idol Kid Cudi (from whom he borrowed his first name, Scott, for his artist name) and both let themselves be carried by Pharrell William on the luminous “Looove”. Finally, the British Sampha sublimates the introspective « My Eyes », where Travis Scott admits having filled his lack of affection by accumulating material possessions.
In a rather dark tone, the album Utopia highlights from the first track, “Hyena”, the rapper’s line of conduct, which samples the verse of the song “Proclamation” by the British rock group Gentle Giant: he offers to keep hope even in the most difficult situations. And includes in the positive things of his life his 5-year-old daughter, Stormi, whom he had with reality TV star Kylie Jenner, and whom he calls out to at the end of “Thank God”. On “Meltdown”, he invites the Canadian Drake to follow him on three different cadences, and both surpass themselves in their favorite exercise, the egotrip, scratching in the process some of their colleagues, including rapper Pusha T.
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