Travi$ Scott was always bound for greatness. Who knew his greatness would fully manifest in the form of cow-wrangling, though? Not me, I’ll tell you that much. What with all his collaborating with Kanye West on Yeezus, as well as with Pusha T, Jay-Z, T.I., and his solo work, I sort of thought he’d stay strong with the hip-hop thing. But, Travi$, more power to you. Follow your dreams, even if — especially if — they involve cows, as your recently announced March release date for Rodeo seems to indicate they do. Sure, many have speculated that it’s just an album, a follow-up and fulfillment of Days Before Rodeo from last year, but in order to serve the logic of the bit I’m currently doing, I’ve chosen to not believe any of that and instead imagine Travi$ Scott’s young body tossed about on the muscled back of a furious bull under the hot lights of a stadium on a humid Texas night.
To really throw a bit of confusion into whether or not this whole Rodeo thing is definitely about bulls or hip-hop, Scott has just announced a March tour with Young Thug and Metro Boomin, which will take him around the United States of America and will include a stop at SXSW. He’s also dropped two new tracks to further muddy the water, “Nothing But Net” with Thugga and PARTYNEXTDOOR and “High Fashion” with an assist from Future whose own recently dropped Beast Mode tape seems, to this writer, to indicate — in the interest of really putting a nice bow on this dumb joke — his own desire to move out of the hip-hop game and into the ownership of a beast-infested pit game and to ultimately monetize said pit by offering pit-watching tours from the safety of his own pleasure skiff. I apologize for the direction this post has taken. As consolation, please accept the SoundCloud embeds of both of the tracks I just mentioned below.
Dates:
03.01.15 - Santa Ana, CA - Observatory
03.02.15 - Tuscon, AZ - Rialto Theatre
03.04.15 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
03.06.15 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
03.08.15 - Chicago, IL -The Concord Music Hall
03.09.15 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew’s Hall
03.10.15 - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
03.11.15 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
03.12.15 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
03.14.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero Theatre
03.15.15 - Silver Spring, MD - Filmore Silver Spring
03.16.15 - Norfolk, VA - The Norva
03.17.15 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
03.18.15 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
03.19.15 - Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
03.20-22.15 - Austin, TX - SXSW
03.23.15 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
03.24.15 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
03.26.15 - Phoenix, AZ - The Pressroom
03.27.15 - San Diego, CA - Observatory Northpark
03.28.15 - Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia
03.29.15 - San Francisco, CA - The Regency Ballroom
03.31.15 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
• Travi$ Scott: https://twitter.com/trvisxx
• Young Thug: https://twitter.com/youngthug
• Metro Boomin: https://twitter.com/metroboomin