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4 days ago
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Travis Scott Hangs Out With His Amazing Friends on ‘Jackboys 2'
'Yeah, man, I swear these old niggas kill me,' raps Travis Scott in his typical melodic flow on 'Champain & Vacay.' The Houston star's pushback against Clipse's 'So Be It,' where Pusha T's ripped Scott for his 'lack of loyalty' towards past mentors and friends like Kanye West and Drake, seems relatively tame. The irony, though, is that Scott isn't young anymore, either. At age 34, he's been a star since 2014's Days Before Rodeo, and his traits are overly familiar: the watery and slightly distorted harmonies, the insistent luxury metaphors, and the way he punctuates his verses with adlibs like 'it's lit!' and 'straight up!' At his best, Scott shapes these tropes into immersive Astroworlds, creations where the sonics are so dazzling that one tends to overlook its plasticine exteriors and lack of nuance and frisson. But a decade's a long time to spend in virtual reality. Jackboys 2, a sequel to 2019's EP-length chart-topper Jackboys, may be intended as a showcase for Scott's Cactus Jack imprint and acts like Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, SoFaygo, and Wallie the Sensei. But it ultimately sounds like Scott and his Amazing Friends. He hogs most of the tracks alongside high-wattage guests like Playboi Carti and Future ('Where Was You'), Tyla and Vybz Kartel (the tropical-sounding 'PBT'), Youngboy Never Broke Again ('Outside'), and 21 Savage ('Kick Out'). The nearly hour-long project is threaded with quotes from UGK hero Bun B that seem designed to center Jackboys 2 as a Texas-sized blockbuster. 'This shit get intergalactic,' promises Don Toliver on 'Champaign & Vacay.' More from Rolling Stone These Blog-Era Rap Stars Dropped Last Week. Only One Made the Hot 100 Watch Clipse Showcase Emotional Track 'The Birds Don't Sing' on Fallon Travis Scott Says Kanye West Gave Permission to Use Demo in Motion to Dismiss 'Telekinesis' Suit To his credit, Scott tries to rap a bit harder than usual, especially on 'Kick Out' and 'Dumbo,' the latter where he brags, 'Chain on ice cream, don't melt.' There's some nice production, particularly from producers F1lthy and Glasear on 'Where Was You,' which floats with an odd, harpsichord-like melody. But everything sounds paved with the same rolling trap-like thump, a baseline requirement for rage-rap. Songs meander by with nothing but banal sentiments to distinguish them, like Scott claiming, 'I'm sittin' courtside, can hit the ref with a tech/Lambo door suicide, she get blessed if we mesh' on 'Contest.' There are a few good shots, though, like when SahBabii claims, 'Rainbow diamonds, this shit on me blingin'/Stepped out of the jeweler, bought a gay parade (wow, wow)' on 'Beep Beep.' Kodak Black inserts pathos into 'Florida Flow' when he raps, 'I don't wanna live too long, too old, but I don't wanna die this young/All I know if 'trol pull us over, this bitch better hide this gun.' And hilariously, GloRilla uses her cameo on 'Shyne' to rap, 'My only regret is bein' too young to fuck Matthew McConaughey.' Ultimately, Jackboys 2 unfolds like a mediocre Netflix movie, an amusing late-night diversion that's hard to remember the next day. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
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4 days ago
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Travis Scott's ‘Jackboys 2' Tops Albums Chart
Travis Scott and his Jackboys collective's compilation album Jackboys 2 debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as Billboard reports. It earned 232,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of those, 72,000 comprise streaming equivalent albums (SEA) equaling 94.68 million on-demand streams of the album's songs, according to Luminate. The follow-up to the chart-topping EP Jackboys from 2019, the sequel arrived on July 13 with seven songs available as a digital download and came in five vinyl variants. Its expanded version houses 17 tracks, available via digital download, streaming, and on CD with five variants. There is also a 20-song edition that dropped on July 17. More from Rolling Stone Bad Bunny, Travis Scott, Saweetie, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week Travis Scott Hangs Out With His Amazing Friends on 'Jackboys 2' Watch Clipse Showcase Emotional Track 'The Birds Don't Sing' on Fallon In addition to Scott, Jackboys 2 features Sheck Wes, Don Toliver, SoFaygo, Playboi Carti, Future, SahBabii, Tyla, Vybz Kartel, GloRilla, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Wallie the Sensei, and Kodak Black. It also includes Scott's single, 'Dumbo.' Elsewhere on the chart, Justin Bieber's surprise album Swag bows at Number Two, with 163,000 equivalent album units earned, 155,000 of which are SEA. Swag also debuts at Number One on the Top Streaming Albums chart (earning the equivalent of 198.77 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs), marking Bieber's biggest streaming week ever. Meanwhile, after ruling the top of the albums chart for its first eight weeks, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem drops to Number Three, with 147,000 equivalent album units earned. Debuting at Number Four is Clipse's Let God Sort Em Out. Their first album in nearly 16 years garners 118,000 equivalent album units. It's the second time the rap duo comprising Pusha T and Malice have made the Top 10, following Clipse's Lord Willin', which also opened at Number Four back on Sept. 7, 2002. Rounding out the Top Five, KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack falls from Number Two to Number Five. In its fourth week on the charts, it earned 85,000 equivalent album units. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
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6 days ago
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Travis Scott Unveils ‘Jackboys 2' Release Date
With just days to go before its release, Travis Scott announced that his Cactus Jack compilation album Jackboys 2 will roll out this Sunday, July 13. According to post shared to his Instagram on Thursday night, the project will span 17 songs and be hosted by Bun B. 'The Jack is back with 17 tracks full of trunk rattling classics in the making,' read the text on the poster. Alongside the image, the rapper wrote in the caption: 'JB2 OUT EVERY WHERE 7 13SPEAKERS AND SCREAMS AT MAX VOLUME.' More from Rolling Stone How Director Gabriel Moses Channeled Hip-Hop Culture and Atlanta for His First Short Film Young Thug Returns to the Stage With Triumphant Summer Smash Performance Our Favorite Afropop Songs and Albums of 2025 So Far The announcement arrives a few months after Scott teased the sequel to 2019's compilation LP Jackboys from his label Cactus Jack Records, with a video by White Trash Tyler and filmmaker Harmony Korine featuring an unreleased song. Earlier in the week, Scott shared the track '2000 Excursion' featuring Don Toliver and Sheck Wes. The rapper has also been promoting his project by reportedly sending Lamborghinis branded with the Jackboys logo (echoing his previous teaser trailer, which featured a purple Lamborghini alongside a horse) to his fellow artists including Waka Flocka Flame, 21 Savage, GloRilla, Tyla, Vybz Kartel, and Kodak Black — hinting at possible features on the upcoming sequel. Last year, Scott was presented with the annual I Am Hip Hop Award at the BET Hip Hop Awards, an honor given to artists who have made significant cultural and creative impacts on the genre. He also headlined this year's Coachella festival in Indio, California, turning the event into a massive all-night of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
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6 days ago
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Travis Scott Celebrates ‘Jackboys 2' Release With ‘Dumbo' Video
Travis Scott is celebrating his Cactus Jack compilation album Jackboys 2 with a new visual. Just a day after dropping the 17-track LP that included songs by Sheck Wes and Don Toliver, Scott released the cinematic video for his highly teased single 'Dumbo.' The Gabriel Moses-directed visual splices clips of Scott singing from inside a crowded room of women and in front of a sports car. At one point in the video, Scott gets a tattoo painted on his back during the visual. The classic Travis Scott lyrics hear the star flaunting his luxuries while singing about a woman 'goin' dumbo.' More from Rolling Stone Conan Gray Gets His Heart Broken in 'Vodka Cranberry' Video Travis Scott Unveils 'Jackboys 2' Release Date Dove Cameron Sings to Her 'Dangerous' Italian Lover on 'Romeo' 'That come-down no emotion, yeah, yeah/See, the whip ain't no regular body, the whip got a kit like BBL,' Scott raps on a verse. 'One digit on back of the truck and she's backin' it up, no CDL.' 'Dumbo' has been a long time coming for Scott, who first previewed the track at the HBCU Celebrity Softball Classic Cactus Jack hosted back in February. He played it for the first time live during his 2025 headlining Coachella set as one of two unreleased tracks performed. Scott released the Jackboys 2 compilation album on Sunday, featuring tracks such as '2000 Excursion' with Scott, Sheck Wes, and Don Toliver; 'MM3' by SoFaygo; 'ILMB' with Scott and Wes; and 'Cant Stop' by Toliver and Wallie the Sensei. The album also features guest vocals from Tyla and Vybz Kartel on 'PBT,' GloRilla on 'Shyne,' and YoungBoy Never Broke Again on 'Outside.' The LP garnered a whopping 35.7 million first-day streams on Spotify and reached Number One on Apple Music Sunday. Jackboys 2 is the first compilation album from Cactus Jack since 2019, when the first JackBoys record dropped. That album featured 'Highest in the Room' featuring Rosalía and Lil Baby, 'Out West' featuring Young Thug, and 'Gatti' with Pop Smoke. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
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7 days ago
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Coldplay's Chris Martin teases couple on kiss-cam after outing Astronomer's CEO, asks ‘Are you legitimate?'
Picking yourself up after an awkward moment can be rather challenging, especially when it happens in front of thousands of people during a Coldplay concert. The lead singer of the band, Chris Martin, gave birth to such a moment when, during the kiss cam segment of the concert, they panned the camera towards astronomer CEO Andy Byron, who was enjoying the music with the company's HR chief, Kristin Cabot. What followed was utter chaos, with Chris realising that he might have done and said something he wasn't supposed to. The moment Andy and Kristin realised they were on the jumbotron, both covered their faces and quickly ducked out of the way. Chris remarked, 'Look at these two. Either they are having an affair or just very shy,' and it quickly dawned upon him that the former might be a very real possibility seeing their reaction. Reportedly after the incident, Chris was heard saying, 'Holy sh*t. I hope we didn't do something bad.' The band, the crowd and our confused instigator Chris all tried to move forward as the singer was visibly worried about what had just happened. Later, the kiss-cam showed another couple on the screen, and in an attempt to cool things down and poke some fun at himself, Chris asked them, 'Are you two a legitimate couple?' ALSO READ: Jackboys 2 Album Review: Travis Scott needs better music to play at his India concert A lot has happened since the initial incident; however, most of it is speculation at this point without any confirmation from viable sources. An account on X (formerly Twitter), which is reportedly a parody account, posted a long apology on Andy's behalf which mentions the tycoon's company, family, and especially his wife. Chris also recently went through a split with his long-time girlfriend and fiancée, actor Dakota Johnson. He is currently amidst the Music of the Spheres World Tour along with his bandmates. The tour that started back in 2022 has gone through more than 40 countries, including an electrifying detour in India. The tour will most likely conclude in September of this year, bringing one of the most successful and longest-running music tours of all time to a close.
