Travis Scott: Rodeo (2LP) [GRAND HUSTLE/EPIC]

Why you'll love it

Rodeo went double platinum and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, with "Antidote" and "3500" as the singles. The guest list is a whopper: The Weeknd, Future, Kanye West, Young Thug, Schoolboy Q, Justin Bieber and Toro y Moi.

This edition

• 2LP set, 14 tracks
• Grand Hustle/Epic pressing of the 2015 album
• Includes "Antidote", "3500" and "90210"

About the album

The Travis Scott we know and love today isn't quite all there yet on his 2015 debut, Rodeo, but the seeds of the future are being sown for sure. Huge, in-your-face beats, screwed-up and psyched-out vocals, an overall air of slightly menacing trap dementia: it was all here on delivery, albeit not in as refined and ambitious a form as it would be two albums later on the Houston rapper's masterwork, 2018's smashing Astroworld.

There was never any doubt that the guy was bound for greatness, and there are enough proper rippers here (the singles "3500" and "Antidote" among them) that even casual listeners will stumble across a few jams they can't possibly deny. The guest list on this one is a whopper, too, which would seem to suggest that a lot of A-listers were quite happy to rub shoulders with this kid on his way up: Future, 2 Chainz, the Weeknd, Schoolboy Q, Young Thug and the less obvious likes of Justin Bieber and Toro y Moi all make appearances. Someone at the label was willing to throw some cash around in service of Scott's vision.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Grand Hustle/Epic, first out in 2015.