Travis Maximus | GQ


What are the issues that the core followers get that possibly different individuals don’t get?

“They perceive what I’m out to do, what I imply? Like, what Travis is right here to do: right here to push issues ahead. I’m at all times right here to love simply actually push issues ahead—each facet of this shit: music, creativity, all this. With out having to be redundant with saying it. I simply need to present, .”

Why do you assume you make music?

“Man, as a result of I’ve a whole lot of emotion I need to output, . And I can really feel for different individuals in a way of issues that’s relatable. And generally you turn out to be that consultant of a flock of individuals. It’s like, by the lyrics, it’s like, Ah, yeah, we really feel the identical manner.” Famously, the particular person Scott at all times felt this manner himself about is Child Cudi. “The shit he was saying, man, it’s loopy,” Scott displays. “You’d have thought this dude was, like, your brother, after which he would say within the subsequent lyric, like, ‘I’m your massive brother.’ You’d be like, What the fuck! It’s solely a handful of artists that get you that feeling, proper? That actual shit that you just really feel: like, Rattling, this dude went to my highschool. Am I associated to this man?”

A couple of moments later, I’m asking Scott the place he lives now, a query he first solutions by saying “I reside on the street,” then modifies by including “out west…my infants” earlier than breaking into music. “My infants!” he croons. “The place my infants is!” This appears to remind him of one thing. “She desires me to name her,” he says to himself, and dials his cellphone. His daughter Stormi’s face quickly fills the display screen.

“Oh, you getting your hair braided?” he asks.

“Yeah!” says Stormi.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” says Scott, who in seconds has morphed into achingly candy father mode. “You getting your hair braided, huh? You get far more braids than Dada! You need to see the stage actual fast?”

“Yeah!” exclaims Stormi. I comply with the true Scott and the digital Stormi down the hall, and out into the sector. (“She obtained to approve the set,” he tells me.)

“So I’m gonna present you this, it appears so loopy, lady,” Scott says to Stormi. “So loopy! It’s so massive.” He factors the cellphone’s digital camera on the stage. “It’s so loopy, proper?

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