Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "TRAVIS SCOTT - UTOPIA REVIEW"

Episode Date: August 3, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz reviews Travis Scott's new album, Utopia. He discusses the album's sound, production, and features, and gives his overall thoughts on the project. Analytic Dreamz also talks about the album's commercial success, and how it has already become one of the biggest albums of 2023.This segment is perfect for fans of Travis Scott, hip-hop, or music reviews in general. It is also a great way to learn more about the album's commercial success.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It is time to get into the Travis Scott Utopia album. The album was released July 28th, 2023, my Cactus Jack in Epic Records, follow up from the 2018 album, Astor World. So after the five-year wait, this man has given us an album, consisting of Beyonce, Drake, The Weekend, Bad Bunny, Playboy Cardi, Cizza, Future, Twinna Savage. I can keep going on and on.

You would have thought this was a DJ Khalid or a Kanye West Donned the album, the amount of features that this had. Granted, the five-year wait, I believe the budget for the album was out of this work. So Travis was like, let's get all the features possible. All I want to say is we're getting into this album because of course we're going to start with the sales because that's what a lot of people are wanting to know about. If you didn't hear my first impressions of Travis Scott Utopia, just know that I was saying that the first week sales would do around three to four thousand, three to four hundred thousand first week. but I did also say it could jump up to 700,000 because of the new bundle rules and what actually end up happening. According to his daily double, Travis Scott, with 350 million streams in the first seven days,

is going to sell around 245 to 270,000, no, 245,000 first week. But it doesn't include pure album sales slash bundles. Those also could surpass 200,000. So apparently, going off to 245,000 to 275,000 first week that people are guessing, guesstimating that he would do with streaming, going off of the 200,000 that people are guessing he would do with bundles slash album sales, he could end up doing around 5 to 600,000 first week. Without bundles, he's going to do probably around 300,000 first week.

So technically, I wasn't too far off. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to pat myself on the back. You know, a lot of people in the hip-hop industry love to say that fans just be talking and fans don't know what they're talking about. and it always reminds me of when people say

oh you got to be in this hip hop industry you got to make music to know what you're talking about and when athletes be like oh you got to play this game to know what you're talking about and then they end up saying something out of pure hatred for another player so not only could you get misinformation from people in the league quote unquote

because of their personal bias towards people but you can also have a certain perception of another person in the same league because of that person having a personal vendetta case and point i'll probably point out isaiah thomas and michael jordan ask michael jordan like who's the top five point guards ever played the game ask isaiah thomas who's the top five shooting guards ever play the game and you'll probably get an interesting answer but they was in the league mind you so anyways hopefully that makes sense if it didn't say hey maybe i am just talking but anyways uh so uh travis guy is you know set to sell around 500 000 first week with bundles

and 300 000 by himself with uh streams and in general billboard updated as eligibility rules as you can see right now shameless plug to my analytic dreams video channel on spotify exclusive version and billboard restored some of the formats such as merged bundle sales when calculating chart positions under the new rules artists may only sell two different fan bundle variations which must come with a physical copy of the album and a piece of merch astro world to put in perspective sold 538 000 album equivalent units in 2018 so with that that was the only That was the second largest first week sales only behind the goat, of course, because you know, these people can't compete with the goat. So even though y'all may say I'm biased with my praise of Drake, who I always call the goat, just though, objectively speaking, Bill Board is on record saying that Drake has the highest first week sales for hip hop ever with Scorpion, with 732,000.

first week sales now let's just let's just you know let's just let's just let's set in you know a little moment silence for the goat so basically for Utopia it's not going to get close to 700,000 but it will get close to five maybe six if the projections are just off with bundles of course without bundles like I said it's probably going to be around a 300 range of 400 but the biggest thing is Travis got definitely sold a lot and compared to what I was thinking when it comes to Travis Scott. I do think that the Utopia rollout

has been one of the best rollouts I've seen since Kanye West and has dawned the rollout. I'm going to make a lot of comparisons to Kanye West and Travis Scott for the simple reason. Hold up. Okay. Yeah, because I was trying to...

I think I found this, but I'm trying to make sure I get my facts correct. Correct. So basically, I'm going to make a lot of comparisons between Kanye Wes and Travis Scott simply because a lot of people was calling this album Yeez's 2.0. What people don't know is that Travis Scott was the key producer of Yeezus back in what 2012, 2013, I forget when that was happening. But basically everybody attributes that album to Kanye West's current sound as far as the influence. And Travis Scott, was the main component of that sound.

As if you look it up, Travis Scott was a huge producer for the album, Yeezis. And Kanye and Travis has always been influenced off one another, of course. So let's not get a twisted. Kanye West is still him when it comes to influence. But as far as his sound, specifically, it's kind of like when Drake, quote unquote, allegedly, use Quinn Miller in The Weekend, the Weekend for Take Care album, of course, and then Quinn Miller for, if you're reading this, is too late.

That's kind of the effect that Travis Scott had for Yeezus. No, he didn't do everything for Kanye West, but he was a huge contributor to why it sounded the way it did. Hopefully, it makes sense if it doesn't. Just know that I'm not trying to say Travis Scott completely influenced Kanye West, but as far as his sound, post-Yezus, it was heavily inspired by Travis Scott. So when a lot of people say that, oh, Travis Scott was copying Yeez's or Kanye West rarely inspired Travis Scott in the way to change his whole sound is actually the other way around. So that being said, Utopia review. All I got to say is, where do you go now that you're done with me? That is ringing through my ears every single time I listen to the outro of Utopia because I don't know about y'all.

I've been talking about the Asterold situation nonstop. And I said that the sales will represent if people care about the Asteroor situation or not. because of course, if you don't know, the whole AstroWorld situation is when I believe, let me look this up, because I'm definitely not trying to get this wrong. Because of Travis Scott AstroWorld situation and the events that led up to it

makes me believe that Travis Scott is one of the most dangerous hip-hop performers, like, not even hip-hop, one of the most dangerous performers ever in life. Because November 5th, 2021, for the Asteroel Festival that was a music event that was founded by Travis Scott.

That's the biggest point. I think a lot of people are like, why you blame him Travis? He didn't do anything. It's literally his festival. And a lot of different insiders were saying that he runs it a certain way

so he can have certain rushes towards the Mosh Pit allegedly. I have to say allegedly, definitely for that. But what's not alleged is that eight people died the night and two more died

in the hospital over the following days because of that Asteroil festival on November 5th, 2021. And the cause of death was because of a lot of... Let me see. I'm trying to find with it. Okay, so 25 people were hospitalized.

More than 300 were treated for injuries at the festival's field hospital. Multiple concert goers documented the incident by posting videos and recounting their experience on social media during and after. the concert. And the reason I say that is because I don't want to say anything that's like objective or just like I want to give you, I want to give you actual, I don't know, I want to give you anything that's like subjective. I want to give you things that's objectively true. So with the AstroWorld situation, it was also a, it was a play by the Houston police that I thought was pretty interesting to downplay the rollout of Utopia when it eventually came out. And the reason

I say that is because once I pull it up in a second, it's really interesting that they were release this info now, then it actually, when it actually occurred. So they waited to release this info after the album was released. But the Houston police basically came out and said, because granted, I mean, keep in mind, Asterold is a festival founded by Travis Scott, right? Astro world tragedy, the Houston police came out and said that Travis Scott team prevented the concert for stopping multiple times. The police report says, and they said, um, try to find if they had anymore, what they said. And they basically said that, yeah, the Houston police said that Travis Scott's team prevented the Asteroq concert from stopping.

And I think that's very interesting that they've released that as soon as Utopia release. Why not release that right when the album, or not right when the situation was, or the information was brought to you. It does feel like a marketing play, but at the same time, the event did happen. People did die. And the reason why I say the sales is going to be reflection on if people care or not is because you see all these features for Travis Scott, Beyonce, Drake, The Weekend, twice, twice, future.

Then you see the reception of Gunna not being able to get any mainstream producers, artists, to feature supposedly because he snitched on Young Thug. It kind of shows where the moral integrity is of hip-hop. And the security guard from the police, so the police, the Houston police came out with a 1266 page report on the day that Utopia came out. So like I said, I think it was like a interesting marketing tactic about the police, but still, nonetheless, it's actually a.

happened. A guard named Marty Walgren, I don't even know if I should say his name. I should probably say his name because people not going to think I'm actually saying like what happened. Went backstage and told two of the members of Scott's team that the show needed to end because of the injuries and stuff.

And then he also said that the show could not end because Drake had three more songs left to perform. He also said that they actively impeded the ability for anyone to stop the show. So that's what I said multiple times. So they were stopping people from actually being able to stop the show, right?

Because it's ran by Travis Scott. Astro World Festival is not Rolling Loud. It's not, what's some other ones? All I know is Rolling Loud. It's Rolling Loud. There's some other festivals. But anyways, those are ran by, like, other people who are not artists.

Astro World specifically ran by Travis Scott. So I think a lot of people got that confused. Like, why don't just go after the company instead of Travis Scott? because Travis Scott founded Astro War Festival and he runs it by himself and he hires the security, which is the biggest portion that a lot of industry insiders get into, which is why this event happens often because Travis Scott has a history of inciting riots in the crowd. And that's actually a fact because in Arkansas, when he performed, I forget how long ago, I think I can look that up as well. But Travis Scott was arrested for inciting a riot.

And let me see. And this has happened. The reason why I'm pausing, because I don't want to say anything that a lot of people don't understand. I want to give you the facts in a way that you can understand. I don't want to just like guess. Because I've said this a bunch of times, but for the Utopia review, I definitely have to get these bullet points out because this is no joke.

Honestly, this is like very interesting the way the hip hop just skips past certain things. But of course, I always say hip hop. is a lot of hypocrisy happens throughout hip hop because in general when you're talking about Travis Scott, a lot of people brush past the Astroo situation. Like, oh, yeah, that was a disaster. But anyways, let's get to that music. Like, no, I'm going to spend a significant time of this Utopia review breaking down

why I believe Travis Scott needs to be held more accountable for what happened. Anyways, Travis Scott has a history of inciting riots during his performances. In 2015, he was arrested at Lalapalooza. That's another festival I forgot to mention. encouraging fans to rush the stage and bypass security. 2017, after a show in Arkansas, like I just said, he was accused of inciting a ride and endangering the welfare of a minor. 2019, a fan, I don't know if this is Travis Scott's fault, but a fan fell off the balcony

of his concert and was paralyzed. But the fan's family, so for that situation in 2019, the fans' family sued Travis Scott. Now, we don't know if they want or not. but I don't really put that situation on Travis Scott. Like if somebody falls off the balcony, you know, unless Travis was like, come from the balcony, I don't see how that would be his fault. Anyways, what I do want to point out is his history of just inciting riots time and time again to the point where he got tired of doing Lollapalooza in 2017.

It doesn't list, but it was AMP, the Walmart amp like The 8 or whatever. that's what it was in Arkansas. And then he got probably got tired of getting arrested for literally inside inciting riders during, during his performance that he created his own Astroar Festival. And now he has been, now that this situation has happened because Astroiril, the situation happened on November 5th, 2021. So we have, let me find this again, we have Lollapalooza situation where he was arrested

for inciting. inciting riots, 2015. 2017, he was arrested for inciting riots. And then in 2021, 10 people died. More than 300 people were treated for injuries at the Festival's Field Hospital. And multiple concert goers documented the incident by posting videos and recounting their experiences

on social media during and after the concert. So if you don't believe me, you can look it up for yourself. AstroWorld Festival survivors, quote unquote, of the a disaster and they will probably give you their personal recount of what happened anyways so that's why i say Travis guy is more than responsible for this astro world tragedy and why he should be held more accountable and just shows the hypocrisy in the hip-hop field of letting a person like gunna go criticize and gives him give gunna so much criticism and downplaying his name and just ridiculing him to the point where he doesn't have any features no artist wants to

collab with him because of riding with thug but then you come over to astroworld which is a much a way more serious situation obviously on the flip side it cannot be a way more serious situation because young thug is also accused of you know that's alleged so I'm not going to get to that but basically you know apparently allegedly people passed away because of the whole case is going on with young thug right now. Like as far as like what he did in the past, apparently people passed away and that's why they're trying to lock him up specifically. Anyways, that's alleged.

So I'm not saying that's a fact. Getting into the factual, though, realm again, the actual world situation did happen. It was documented and I think is way more serious than a lot of people are letting on and are describing because even though Travis got denied these accusations of him, you know, inciting riots and not stopping the show when people are seeing to be. be in distress. It's just too many accounts of this man doing this time and time again of getting arrested time and time again.

And for people who actually pass away during his concert because of him doing the exact same thing in his own festival, kind of shows you why people are so upset at Travis Scott, me included. Travis Scott, to be fair, they do say that Travis Scott has been committed to working with the families of the victims. But however, his history of Insighton Riot, such as his concert, is raise serious questions and awareness from major brands, which is why his arena festival, his arena tour, if he even goes on one, would be very interesting to see how that goes about. Because let him say one thing about Insight and they're just probably going to rest in my spite. I'll be interested or I'll be surprised if they even let him do any of that when he goes to their venues.

Because like I said, he was arrested multiple times in 2015, 2017 that he just created his own festival. So to do his own tour, I think we'll have to once again be on its own merit because a lot of these major arenas, such as like the one in Kansas City, like if he wants to go to the Sprint Arena or Madison Square Garden, like he's not having it. like they're not having it so i'll be interested to see how he how he handles that situation as obviously he was um a lot of lawsuits are still happening with his whole astroar tragedy however the police the police reported that um it can lead to a lot of criminal charges against travis scott but i believe a lot of them has been dropped i don't know that

is for a fact but it doesn't seem like a lot of them because when you get into that situation Like as far as hip hop lawyers like a hip hop artist can literally kill somebody and then the lawyers like hey I can get you off of that like it's hip hop lawyers are notorious for getting their clients off on just outrageous situations but anyway that's what's that point so now with that all that important information out the way let's get into the album review so basically utopia so switching gears I know it's like a harsh little transition but like I said the reason I titled the reason I titled the album review. So basically Utopia. I'm switching gears I know it's like a harsh little transition but like I said the reason I titled of this, the Travis Scott Utopia review, because I definitely wanted to get out that Astro War point, because I think a lot of people let that slide, but I didn't want to let that slide at all. And plus, if you listen to my Travis Scott coverage over the past months and years

since the Asteroor situation, you know this is my same sentiment. I've always been saying. So anyways, switching gears to music. So now focusing specifically on music. After what I just said, I believe

that you told you about Travis Scott, objectively speaking, no, no, subjectively. Yeah, subjectively speaking, for me is the best album of 2023. The reason I say is the best album of 2023 is I would ask you to show me an album that came out this year with levels of production that's even close to this right here. I believe that what Travis Scott did with Utopia on a production level, it's a literal masterclass on how to record certain effects over sound effects, certain EQ that he uses for samples to match perfectly along with the beat. I mean, a meltdown, he literally had a star

war sample that I had no idea that he used until I saw it in the credits had to listen back to it and then once you know that as a Star Wars sample it's like oh it's it's like night and day the way it stands out once you see the production credits and the way he just uses that sample seamlessly with the actual beat is kind of insane the way that he samples is Kanye West esk because of course like I said, Travis Scott influenced Kanye West's sound over Yeez's, but let's not even act like Kanye West, the producer, needs any help from anybody. He's very much a genius when it comes to production side. Travis Scott, I think at this point in time, is on that level of genius when it comes to musical production. Solely musical production when I saw the producing credits and I saw

some of the other reports that was coming out, like this is Travis Scott's most produced album since, like, forget they say it was his most produced album since it was like pharaoh or whatever i forget what it was called but basically when he first came out with albums or mixtapes he was more hands-on with production and he kind of tapered off a little bit and not more like drastically more like i think the lowest percentage of production he had on this album was like 23% so he's always hands-on but as far as this one it was like in the 60% range and a lot of people are attributing that to

Travis Scott just being a musical genius because at this point I do believe that when it comes to production there's not really too many artists or just musicians in general that is better than Travis Scott on the production side as Drake included future um obviously they're not producers so let me again a producer realm metro forrell Williams Kanye West um Travis Scott needs to be needs to start being perceived in that light because when it comes to production, he's very hands-on. And when it ends up sounding like this, obviously he had help for Mike Dean,

but what producer doesn't collapse. To be hands-on like this, to deliver a product like this, production-wise, is the best project I've ever heard. Sonically, it's the best project I've ever heard. Like I said, it reminds me of Kanye West, Donda, the way that the production

was just leaps and bounds ahead of anything else that was released in that year. And it reminds me of Pusha T's album when Farrell and Kanye West produced it where all those beats on the album is almost dry. That's the level of production that's on Utopia. Those are the three albums

that really stood out to me and just leaps and bounds above all others. And of course, Metro is a close second with his compilation album, with heroes and villains and the Spider-Man soundtrack. So all those, all those hours, albums, projects I just named, production-wise, you can literally play any track off of that

and play any track off of another artist, and you can tell the level of production is just on a different level, vice versa. Like, well, not vice versa, but when comparing those projects to a Metro, to a Kanye, to a Travis. So, and also to a for real. Don't want to disrespect, for real, even though Drake just did it. But anyways, we're going to get to that in a second. So first track Hyena I think that's how you say it right I believe I don't know

The way that this album started When I'm going to It's like AstroWorld IshtraWorld is What I consider Travis Scott's best intro track I feel like it really set the tone

From the beat To what he was rapping about I feel like Utopia This is like a watered down version of that But it's still a great track I've really like hyena. And when I say watered down version of AstroWorld, it's like when I say like a watered down version of a Drake new song compared to his old song.

Like when I'm comparing them to themselves, their worst production or a track is still better than most people's track, good to best track. So I'm comparing Travis Scott to himself at this point. AstroWorld, I think, had a better intro. But I do believe hyena definitely set the tone when it came to production. and when it came to the samples he was using especially the way he was rapping like he said something about uh let me just pull this up this man said something about bobblehead i was like

ain't no way he said i'm so technically this is the location so i know it's a pg podcast but so we're gonna talk about the location not the cuss words anyways he said quote i'm driving through hell and i didn't brought snow it's shining in here the iddenbride glow i hear the sirens right out to something run me the info trying to hear what you did not how you came close like he was also Travis Scott rap

more on this project than any other project he's ever put out so that's another tip bit trying to hear what you did not how you came close that's a bar then he just and then the follow up was he said because I get bobble head like I didn't make pro

I made Italian Italian bread like I didn't made though i'd be all around the map write a show by myself like i'm chelsea chelsea handler or write a series by my expeditives like on kelsey grammar nicknamed the jed j hawk because it's out of kansas you know it's spalding in my top i'm in esper okay we just just know he was rapping on this entire project he was really rapping i was surprised by the level of uh lyricism he was giving because i never said Travis can't rap but I never considered Travis a lyricist so the way he was rapping on this was was definitely um lyrical like his lyrical ability for this album was on this on display for more of the

album that I've ever heard from uh Travis Scott project usually he's like crooning which is like singing for me for people who can't sing like that's what I call it I call it croning but anyways uh that's besides point also thank God featuring Kate see i think that's how you said that track was pretty solid let me see what do you see uh that track was pretty solid that wasn't like one of my favorites but and then modern jam that's when we got into the utopia feel that's when i started to feel like okay well he's really he's really switching it up and at first i'm not going to want i first listen it makes you feel like this track is just atrocious and then after listening to it over and over and the concept of the album that's strange

fire. Modern Jam, one of my favorite tracks of this album. It's not in my top three. It's probably top five, maybe. I don't know. I just like the way he switches it up. And then after you listen to the entire album over and over again, you appreciate Modern Jam because he gave you kind of what you wanted and rapping and singing. And this

was more of the experimentation that a lot of people have come to know about Travis. So Modern Jam was a very unique gym. I think you kind of have to listen to it over and over, not to program, but just to understand a lot of the production angles that he was taking. Martin Jen was straightfired to me.

Featuring Tizo touchdown. I don't know who that is. And then My Eyes by Travis Scott featured Bon Iver and Sanfa. I don't know who Sanfa is, but my eyes is definitely one of my favorite tracks off of the album. I don't know, the beat switch from him singing to rapping

were reminding me of when Drake, Drake from Take Care, how sometimes he was sing, and then he would just get into his rapping bag on the second half. my eyes are like the perfect track when it comes to singing and rapping solely by Travis Scott because there's not too many solo tracks from Travis Scott I think it's like five on this 19 track album so yeah it's probably my favorite solo no it's not my favorite solo but as far as my

eyes it's like top two yeah all right but as far as singing and rapping is probably my favorite solo uh Travis track uh track number five guys country I thought that was pretty solid I don't really have too much to say about God's country. Track number six, Sirens. At first, I also didn't like this track. Like, I put a skip. If you don't know, if you listen to Spotify, you can hide the track. And I hit it off of the album because I was like, I'm not trying to listen to this.

And because at the end, it gets very annoying. It's like this drop they play. And it's like over and over and over. And I can just picture Travis in the studio. Like, if you've never seen the meme from Travis Scott being at some type of club and he was just slamming the laptop, like just atrocious, not trojan. just like, um, just very obnoxiously slamming the laptop like he was a little kid. That's what reminded me with the end of this track.

Like he was just slamming that effects button over and over and over and that stuff was annoying. Like I'm not going to lie. That's the reason why I really hit the track. But other than that, the tracks actually saw this. So after listening to it over and over and I just skip it when it gets to that part. Like that's just, I don't know why he did that. Hopefully he takes that out because that's very annoying. Um, because it leads right into the meltdown.

And because the funniest thing about this, is that Drake, at the end of this track, he literally says he's like, where the girl's like, I thought we were going to Utopia, right? That's the girl. And the Drake says, what makes you say this is in utopia?

And the girl's like, I mean, I don't know. Isn't this supposed to be some perfect destination? This is just your hotel room. And then Drake's like, yeah, it looks perfect to me. And then after that, to go into meltdown, like, you just got to really appreciate the sequencing of this album. Because of course, I don't know if y'all saw that famous meme from academics when he first heard sickle mode. But as far as grown men and how they should act, let's just say that was a very interesting reaction and how he reacted to Drake's voice off a sickle mode.

So from first listen, Travis Scott hides all the features. So when Drake came on sirens at the end, because I was going to skip it, I was honestly going to skip it. I was like, no, let me at least for the first time, listen to, you know, it fully. I'm glad I did because I heard the last part, you know, Drake being Drake being supremely hilarious. And it leads you right into Meltdown. Now, let me tell y'all something. I ain't heard Drake rap this aggressive since this man put out back to back. I'm not even being, I'm not even joking with you.

Like the way that he was rapping on Meltdown, I believe that somebody told. him hey about that push of T.B. Are you ever going to return to that? Give that any energy. Kind of show them what's up and that you're not to play with. And Drake probably heard that and he was probably like, you know what?

I do I do got a score to settle with that dude. And this man was rapping. Like, first listen, as a Drake stand, I was saying to myself, who is this?

this can't be the Drake, I know. This man singing about, this man singing about falling in love with me or honestly, never mind. This man singing with little baby talking about girls want girls, talking about she says she a lesbian, I am too.

So I'm under the impression like, hey, Dracus, you know, he's just flamboyant at this point, which ain't nothing wrong with that, you know, each, you know, to each his own. Always, you know, respect people's decision and what they want to do with their life, with their bodies.

So I was just like, okay, this is the type of time we are. I see Drake, you know, painting his nails, you know, showing his face, his face care routine as a grown man. What else? Doing interviews with TikToker, Bobby Alhoth or however you say your name. Not even trying to be disrespectful. I forget how to say it. Her last name is kind of hard to say. It's like Althawth.

I can't. I'm sorry. My fault. Drake out here talking about, you know, embarrassing whenever on the stream with Yadi. So I'm like, you know, at that point I'm just thinking Drake You know Maybe a little flexible

You know ain't nothing wrong with that It's just he's just letting us know So I'm like I'm appreciating him that You know I'm respecting him as a human being Able to make his own decisions And then he comes on meltdown And he rapping like He's the newest member of G unit

I ain't know if this is Drake or 50 cent I was like oh this man wants This man wants beef and that's a actual pun because I believe the beat the sound of the beat really reminds me of when Meek Mill

re did the beat of West Beef and had Jay-Z on it I know y'all gonna think I'm crazy listen to so I because of course like it's a notorious mass effect I know where it came from B-I-G the original West Beef actually was it J-Z

dang hold up I can get my hip-hop car taking give me one second i don't know if it's j z or biggie i think it's maybe j z i was just about to attribute it to biggie no no it was biggie okay i'm not going crazy i get to keep my hip hop car right maybe hopefully all right my fault my fault y'all so what's beef was the track made by notorious b ig right on the album uh life after death in 1997 and a lot of people sampled it or redid it and it's one of biggie's best songs ever and one of his most important disc tracks in just hip hop history like

Biggie's a legend. Like there's a reason I went with the name notorious because I wanted a representation of a real hip-hop musician and Biggie is just one of the best, just storyteller. No, he is the best storyteller ever to touch a mic. That's what's point. So what's beef beat is very similar to this one as I do believe that when Drake was talking about what he was saying over Meltdown with this beat sounding the way it did, I feel like it was a tribute. to the West Beef beat by notorious B-I-G. Y'all are going to think I'm crazy. Just listen to Meltdown at the beginning, listen to West Beef, and at the end of it, if you still tell me I'm crazy,

then, yeah, I can sit with it. But that's how I felt. And also, so Drake gives his bars about, you know, you talk to the cops on some therapists, you act like you love this American. And obviously, he was addressing Gunner with the track, I mean, with the verse. heard your new joint is embarrassing you talk to the cops and some therapists i thought that was

strictly for gunner then he said you act like you love this american but really the truth that you scared of the six i think that was a direct shot at a childish gambino which is uh donald glover of course and then your bodyguard put in some work on a fluke now you want to go and inherit i think i think now he's specifically talking about push the tea right and then he keeps going right he keeps going and getting into the meat and potatoes at this bar. My schedule is out. Can you spin us for real? Forget all that spin in the narrative.

I melt down the change that I bought from your boss. Give an expeditive about all of that heritage. Since V not around, the members that hung up to Louis, they're not even wearing it. Don't come to the boy about repairing. Don't come to the boy about sparing. You're lucky that Vogue was suing because I would have been with the the wasses and pairs man man man let me tell you something Drake was rapping like he had bills to pay on this track I ain't never heard that cadence from Drake and the Drake has been in the game

for what 10 years at this point 11 to 12 years at this point I ain't never heard this man rap aggressively or more aggressively or as aggressively ever than I heard in this track titled meltdown I don't know what guy into him I don't know if push a T is going to respond because if i have to explain it melt down the chains that i bought from your boss is apparently i play off of pusher and um i thought Kanye was his boss but maybe there was co-partners i don't know he he says your boss so i don't know who's the boss of who i don't know who's the boss of pusha t or who's the boss of feral williams many ways drake bought some chains that was notorious for the feral where it's like some controller type chain right he melted he melted down who knows

he actually melted it down for money but that's what he said and then he also said um since v not around who is uh virgil virgil virgil i blow who was like the i forget what he did that's so disrespectful i totally forget virgil created louis did he created something i think it was louis baton and then um since virgil abloat passed away i think Farrell took up the mentor of like the creative of creative lead or whatever so Drake of course is in another shot of Farrell talking about we're not even wearing that stuff no more so basically disowning Louis because you know I think Farrell took over and then of course the repairing and sparing is the stuff that push a tea you know they're probably to add some time time again since he quote

unquote repair with Kanye are you going to repair with push a tea and guess what he probably told him he was like definitely no I'm not repairing anything in fact I got this track coming out called I got this verse coming out on Meltdown, and I can't wait till he hears it. And best believe you, I'm pretty sure Pusha T heard that. And I believe he's going to send shots back, but maybe just on his own time. You know, like this album, like, the way to Pusha T kind of ethered Drake into bringing out his son, also talking about his producer being extremely sick. Like, he really went to a level that I just don't think Drake can ever match ever in life.

Drake said he had to distract for Pusher, but somebody told him to not put it out. out. I don't like, I just think that man lost the beef and not lyrically, but I think beef is all about exposing one another and push the tea death. I mean, I don't think having a child is that big of a deal, but when you're Drake, it just seemed like the most flagrant thing he ever did in life. Like, God forbid, a celebrity wants to raise the child in peace and I just wants to have him on the internet 24-7. But the way they push a friend then, he was hiding it. Like, The world just blew up. And from since then, I don't think Drake has ever recovered.

I think he's still trying to get his get back on a pusher. So anyways, also, meltdown. If you want to hear the little Star Wars sample, which may be like this track even like 10 times more. Because once I figured that out, I was like, ain't no way. I listened back to it. And you have to listen to, let me see, when does he say that? Whenever he's saying, like, are you crazy, are you crazy?

Like going through that chorus, listen to the end of that chorus. and then like because the transition between the chorus to the verse is the star wars like ship sound when they're shooting the little lasers or beams or whatever it's like so far like for travis got to sample star wars which i just think has some of the best sound effects ever created in just history and have it seamlessly made uh integrated into the beat that's that stuff is just i'm not gonna lie that's top tier so made me like that track even more like honestly i listen to the Drake verse and I just skip to my other favorite song. But now I can listen to the entire track

because the production really makes you appreciate this album even more. Like even if you're just not a fan of Travis, like listening to the album, it's just really leaps and bounds above anything we've heard in a while. So track number four. Not track number four. My fault, I can't count. Track number eight.

So this is the fan favorite. Feen by Playboy Cardi and Sheck West. I like the track, but it's not my favorite. like the public enjoys it. Like the public perception, it's like, oh, this is like our fan favorite. Like obviously, no, it is a fan favorite, like objectively speaking. But personally, I just, it's not my favorite track. I think it's fire, obviously, but it's just not one of my favorite tracks.

So that's all I have to say about it. The way they Playboy and Travis Scott made this track, I think it's like they went for a certain sound and they just achieved it. And that's all I really have to say about it. It's a very, very solid track. All right. Let's get into track number nine, which is my favorite track off of Utopia. Some of y'all may be surprised by this fact, but I don't even know how you say this. Del Resto, in Echols in parentheses by Beyonce and Travis Scott, is my favorite track off of this entire album.

I don't know why, production-wise, vocals from Beyonce, vocals and rapping also from Travis Scott. Well, I think Travis Scott was mostly singing, but I think he starts rapping. happening at the end. I don't know, I forget. But anyways, my favorite track off of this album is by far Del Resto, because I just feel like when I think of a favorite track as a whole, it has to be played in multiple scenarios. Like, I can't only play one track in one mood or setting and then be like, oh, okay, well, now it's my favorite track. Like, my favorite tracks usually you're able to play at the gym, able to play maybe if you're with your parents or something, you're able to play when you're reading and when you're watching, like, when you're just chilling. Like, it's just a lot of different

moods and settings that your favorite song has to fit for me personally i don't know how other people decide their favorite songs but that's how i am so this is one of my favorite tracks which is twenty twenty three in general and also it's my favorite track off utopia now track number 10 i know this is also one of my favorite tracks this probably top three for me i know for me has a really nice tempo and i think this is probably my third favorite track off the album i think that the way that Travis is singing on this track and the tempo that he's going with and the way that he's rapping flows in a way that's just very infectious and makes me feel like I need to keep replaying this beat over and over and over and the chorus always replays in my head. I don't know what it is about

Travis Scott and choruses but that stuff be replaying in my head and it's like different choruses from the entire album and I know is one of the best singing tracks for me from Drake so track number 11 toopia twins 21 Savage and rob 49 not to you first listen i thought that was young boy i don't know why i thought that was young boy but i really did so i think they could have done without rob 49 and just kept 21 savage and had travis just give a second verse or whatever but toopia twins was still fired i thought the i thought rob 49 you know jokes set aside i think he had a solid showing but i do believe at the end of the day they could have deal without his uh feature Track number 12, Circus Maximus, I think this is the best track production-wise off of the album.

I think Sway Lee, The Weekend, with Travis Scott, with this level of production, should have made it into my top three as far as the album is concerned. But I think the production heavily carries this track. And that's surprising with the likes of Sway Lee, the Weekend, and Travis all on one single track. but the production is just that much of a just it's just like a master class on how to produce tracks because circus maximus has so much going on but it makes so much sense it's like the best produced track that i've heard in a while so you're going to hear that a lot like throughout the album i was just like okay Travis Scott is just like you ever know like to get into the sports field you ever know somebody so talented everybody just puts up with some of his antics off the court

that's how Travis is man like because when he gets into that studio it's really not too many that can mess with him quality wise because circus maximus the production on that is just a masterclass that's all i got to say all right track number 13 pariselle featuring young lean i didn't even know young lean was on this uh track i don't even know who that is so young lean just sounds like something that it's just not pg at all but um i like it i like the intro of it's like somebody talking i believe and then Travis comes on I like the vibe solid track none I don't have too much to say about that track number 14 schizo featuring yontha now this is the one this is the one I wanted to get to because this is probably my top five favorite track hopefully I'm not running out of it yeah I think it's my top five schizo is um the best beat I can't even say best beat because that's like production it's the best hip-hop centric beat for me on this entire album. I'm not going to say it's not experimenting at all, but as far as, like, hip hop elements,

I feel like this is the most infused into the album with Schittso. Like, Schittso is just straight up, hard 808s, Travis rapping over kind of like I know, track number 10, I know. He raps in a certain pattern that's very infectious and makes you want to like keep replaying the track. Like, Schitzel from the beat, the hip hop elements, the 808s, from Yon Thug coming on. Like, it's just a very very, very hard track. Like, that's the descriptive word I would use. Just straight up hard. Like, schizo beat is very, very hard.

All right. Track number 15, lost forever. James Blake and West Side Gunn. I didn't really hear James Blake on this track. Maybe I'm tripping. Maybe I need my ear's check or I just need to listen to the track again. I heard West Side Gun. I honestly had no idea he sounded like that.

I thought he was going to get some like Griselda type of sound. But West Side Gun has a higher pitch voice kind of. I'm not even trying to be funny, but I just thought he was going to get some, like, I don't know, some like Joe Budden-esque type of bass in his voice, but it wasn't really, isn't it? But still, he gave a great, a phenomenal verse. I was just focused on the sonics for some reason and the inflection, it was just interesting. Anyways, that track was solid. Track number 16, love featuring Kid Cuddy. One of my lower tier tracks off of the album, I still think it's solid.

But as far as Travis and Kid Cuddy, I feel like that could do a lot better. together but it's an okay track and it's not bad it's just i feel like i expect more from travis and kid cutt especially with travis scott literally picking up the name scott because um let me see what's his full name let me see so basically the reason that travis scottis even called that travis like some made-up name i believe and scott is based off a kid cuddy's real name uh scott Raymond Seguero or whatever. Yeah, so first name of Kid Cuddy is Scott

which is why Travis Scott's literally called that. So with the inspiration such as this, I don't know if he was nervous or whatever. I still think the track was solid. I feel like they just could have did a lot more. Anyways, that leads into the track number 17, K-pop, with the Avengers lineup, Travis Scott, Bad Bunny

in the weekend. For me, I think this track is fire. I still, to this day, be playing there. Like, when the weekend said, you my bad little mommy mommy and he like it was like i ain't gonna lie that was fire like the way that the weekend went off i don't know maybe i'm a little biased because i've listened to the entire idol soundtrack and he was just completely killing it from double fantasy to popular to false idols that when i got to k-pop i don't i still had that sound in my head so when he came on it was like i was used to

that sound so he was like giving it in a way that um i pause but no i just like So yeah, I like the track. And Bad Bunny, I think, had a phenomenal verse. Like, even though you can't, well, for most Americans, you can't tell what he's saying. He was flowing and it sounded nice. Like, that's all I need. Sonically, for people I don't understand as far as the language, sonically, you just got to sound nice and you got to be flowing with the beat. And he did both of those things.

So I don't know. Kind of reminded me of when, it's going to be a random comparison. But the track was 6'9 in Kodak and the Spanish rapper. kind of reminds me of that. Like after 6-9 and Kodak goes, I still keep the song gone because the Spanish rapper, she's just going crazy over that beat.

And let me tell you, I can't make out one word that she says. But she just, I know she's saying something because she's flowing in Spanish. And that's how Bad Bunny was on K-pop. So anyways, the song was called like Shaka Laca

if you want to listen to 6-9 and Kodak track. And yes, they do have a track together. Track number 18, telekinesis, Future and Siza. I may need a collab album. I know what Travis Scott was trying to do. Future and Siza, the king of toxicity, the queen of toxicity being on one track,

title telekinesis. Nah, you got to get a Grammy for that one. Only Travis Scott could recognize the toxicity of both of those artists' content and put them together. So I just, like, I believe Future and Siza have a lot of tracks together. Actually, let me look it up now

because I don't want to just be saying stuff. Let me see how many tracks they got together. but future and scissors like i just i really need a collab album i need to see who can out toxicity who like who can out toxic who okay so dj call it said it which is funny because i literally compared the album to dj call it so dj call it did it and that was it that was literally it so only dj caled and travis scott was able to pull off a future and cissor collab i need an album i'm gonna keep saying that like that album would be well received in a way that I don't even think either artist understands.

So with that being said, the way that Travis Scott came on this track, it was okay. It was just like I was really just waiting for Future and Siza. So I don't really blame him too much. It's just when you get a collab like this that's so spares and inconsistency and how it happens, I just believe that people are going to focus on that collab more. It's kind of like the whole K-pop situation. You have bad bunny at the weekend on the same track.

I'm sorry, but as far as popularity, both artists are way more popular than you, and they're going to listen to those two artists to see how they mesh more than how you mesh with them. That's just how I am. So Telekinesis, while it's not my favorite, it's very high up to them, maybe top 10. Yeah. That track is just phenomenal. And since it comes out of nowhere, which is another reason why I really enjoy how Travis Scott didn't list any features for this album, because the way that these artists come out nowhere and how it just fit seamlessly into the track,

like I said, Travis Scott, at this point, his discography is one of the greatest ever. And at this point, you can just call him a musical genius, which is why I think a lot of people end this stuff off the, you know how you say off the court, out of the studio slide with Travis Scott. Anyways, till further notice featuring 21 Savage and James Blake, that's kind of what I was referring to when I started off this review. Like, where were you go now, now that you're done with me? Like, where were you go now that you're done with me? That's an interesting phrase coming from Travis Scott on an outro.

Because it's kind of letting fans know, I'm one of the best musicians y'all got. And so if y'all want to go somewhere because I don't know how to act in concerts and I don't know how to act as a human being, then y'all let me know, because you ain't going to find nobody like me. And that's kind of what I got from this last track

is that he was repeating, because he repeated this over and over again. And I don't think it was like in a, oh, the album's over. I think it was like more of a, um, a bird's eye view of the landscape of music. Like, you, I don't know.

Personally, I've never heard a production this sonically amazing since probably Asterold and Donda and Metro. but there's a lot of music that drops in hip-hop. So when I'm naming these albums, these are like the top of the top. But as far as the top, like the cream of the crop, I think it's probably Kanye and Travis, as far as albums that sonically consistently, they're just different.

So, because he says over and over, where will you go now, now that you're done with me? And they say it over and over. And then this is very interesting. You should be done with me. I don't blame you. You should be done. I think that's very interesting because of the whole Asteroor situation and everything.

I know a lot of people are probably like, they're probably not even talking about that. I'd be hard pressed to think that an outro is not talking about the Astroworld situation, when they're literally saying, where are you going now that you're done with me? Like, it's like saying, I don't blame you is interesting because who would blame somebody for not being a fan of an artist after the history comes out of them inciting riots leading up to the whole Asteroor disaster? Like, you know, so I feel like this whole intro is introspective for Travis, and I'm interested that he even included it. Of course, if you ask him, he's probably going to be like, ah, you know,

I just put that, like, Travis guy I don't think could ever just straight up admit fault for the actual situation because he's being sued left and right. But in about way, he can come out and say he was sorry. So, but he could have definitely gave more conviction than he did in his last, the last time he actually apologized for AstroWorld, which was like only one time, like as far as live face, um,

well, as far as like a video of his face, it was like one time he had his hand over his face looked like he didn't want to be there. He was like, yeah, man, can't believe that situation happened.

And that was it. Like what? Like, what type of apology is that? So, yeah, I was really, I'm still upset over his handling of the situation. But anyways,

seems like a lot of fans art, because you see the sales getting back into the you know pulling this full circle you see the sales right here analytic dreams video shamis plug on Spotify see the streams right here

245,000 to 275,000 first week including bundles extra 200,000 so he's probably going to do around 500,000 first week including bundles without bundles

he may do around 300,000 so it's interesting interesting indeed how people forget what else i want to get into that was basically it so my top file let me just get my top file out now that i've reviewed the whole track list so one i would say my favorite track is the one with biance so i would say del resto echo that's my favorite track my second favorite track will have to be meltdown featuring drake my third favorite track will have to be probably K-pop. My fourth favorite track

would be, let me see, probably Schizo with Young Thug. And then my fifth favorite track, probably I know with a question mark. So, at that top five, only

one of those tracks was a solo track from Travis, which I condemn I don't put producers on my top projects of of 2023 so you won't see any Metro on my top five albums, but you will see them in the top 10 songs. But the reason I do that is because it's so easy to pull artists together and just have them

give their best performance. But because of the production, being so leaps and bounds above any production, I've heard from any other hip-hop album in the past, no, because Donda did pretty well. But since Donda, no album has even come close production-wise, even Drake. Like, Drake's not really about the huge left-field experiment, experiment. production. He's more just about hard beats and lyricism. That's it. So production wise, never heard like nothing like this since Donda. And that let me

excuse most of the features because technically he has solo tracks on here. Because that's another thing why I don't put producer projects on my top five list. It's because you're not rapping. You let know other people do to work for you. Which I guess, you know, a lot of producers would condemn that phrasing because they do a lot of work behind the with the beat, but at the end of the day, I want to judge artists based on what they're producing as far as lyrics and production. For Travis Scott, he does both on a master class level. Like, I think there's a reason why he's still around and people haven't given up on him because this man

music-wise, it's just out of this world. It's just personally, he has a lot and a lot of things to clear up. And let's see if he does, because I honestly think he does not care. He put out a music video accompanying this album basically saying I know y'all want me to talk about the Astro World situation but I want to talk about something else and then literally just switch to whatever the movie was about

I'm like oh this man don't care like he don't care don't care like he just blatantly don't care so interesting to see how people receive that compared to how Gunna is treated in hip hop being that he quote unquote snitched on young thug he can't seem

to get no A list features and producers because a lot of people boycotting him because he unthugged or the allegiance to young thug. But the whole Travis Scott Asteroor situation can happen and nobody even bats the eye. Beyonce, Drake, the weekend on here twice, 21 Savage on here twice, James Blake on here. Like nobody, nobody cares. So interesting. Anyways, after my Travis Scott Utopia review, click my link tree in my bio and let me know

in one of my social medias. what do you think about my review as a whole? What do you think I would have touched on as far as the album or just extra information? And also, if you've listened to the album, what is your favorite track?