Travis Scott has responded to Pusha T dissing him on Let God Sort Em Out‘s “So Be It,” and La Flame claimed in a cover story with Rolling Stone that the Clipse rapper twisted the story and used him to promote the Virginia-bred duo’s comeback album.
“When you go back and look at it … it’s crazy. N—as said I had a film crew [with me]. I’m like, ‘What?’ I remember when I pulled up, it was them n—as that had a film crew,” Scott said in his interview published Wednesday (Jan. 21). “I’m talking about the little microphone on the stick and all of that. I was like, ‘Oh, s—t. Am I in a documentary?’”
Trav explained his side of things, clarifying that he was invited to the studio session Clipse was in with Pharrell in Paris at the Louis Vuitton headquarters by Skateboard P himself, as Scott was preparing to roll out his Utopia album.
“A lot of s—t [Pusha T] was saying just didn’t make sense to me,” he added. “It was like he was saying I was interrupting s—t and I was playing them s–t. First of all, I can’t interrupt something that somebody asked me to come pull up on.”
Scott continued: “So when I hear that type of s—t, it’s just like, I don’t know, man. If you got to drop Trav name for the rollout, so be it.”
In a June interview with GQ, Pusha called out Scott’s alleged lack of loyalty. He also claimed that Trav played Utopia cut “Meltdown” during their studio session without Drake’s verse, which dissed Pharrell. The Houston rapper said he didn’t have Drake’s vocals in yet when he arrived for the Clipse-Pharrell session.
“He’s like, ‘Oh, man, everybody’s here,’ he’s smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his f–king monkey dance. We weren’t into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it],” Push recalled. “And then a week later, you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse].”
Pusha T continued: “So, that’s where my issue comes in — like, dawg, don’t even come over here with that, because at the end of the day, I don’t play how y’all play.”
Pusha took aim at Scott in June with the fourth verse of the menacing “So Be It,” and appeared to reference Scott’s ex and beauty mogul Kylie Jenner.
“You cried in front of me, you died in front of me/ Calabasas took your b—h and your pride in front of me/ Heard Utopia had moved right up the street/ And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat/ The ‘net gon’ call it the way that they see it/ But I got the video, I can share and A.E. it/ They wouldn’t believe it, but I can’t unsee it/ Lucky I ain’t TMZ it, so be it, so be it,” he raps.
Two days after Let God Sort Em Out‘s arrival in July, Scott and his Cactus Jack crew dropped JACKBOYS 2 and a Don Toliver-assisted track from the compilation album titled “Champain & Vacay” that seemingly saw Scott take a shot at Pusha.
“Yeah, man, I swear these old n—s kill me/ Know my YNs feel me/ They just want the real me, yeah/ Blue Bugatti, I’m dodgin’ TMZ/ Made a hundred off pushin’ T’s/ Now my phone on DND, yeah,” he raps.
Elsewhere in the RS cover story, the Cactus Jack CEO teased his next solo album, which he hasn’t put any timeframe on just yet.
“Putting my whole body and soul into the next [project], for more people to understand,” Scott said. “The person that still don’t understand Trav, no matter how long I’ve been in this s—t.”
He continued of his Utopia follow-up: “When I make the music, I have this full vision. I see it going down. I’m thinking stadium status. How could people so far away feel so close? How can the music be so big but grounded? Taking raw elements and making it feel, like, euphoric. Man, finding new rhythms, but nothing too hard to take in. You know what I’m saying? A level of what could Rodeo be like on the ultra-scale stadium life.”
Utopia arrived in July 2023 and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 496,000 total album-equivalent units earned.
This story originally appeared on Billboard
