Logic, Lil Yachty, Denzel Curry, Kyle, and Brockhampton’s Kevin Abstract have all called Cudi’s music either life-changing or -saving, to some degree. Scott’s far from alone in his idolization of Cudi. It was one of those moments - I was like crying in the backseat… He talked to me about everything. “He came and surprised me at the studio one day when I was working with A-Trak and took me on this drive in his car, played me new music. “I feel like he’s part of my story… There would be no Travis Scott if it wasn’t for him,” Scott said of Cudi in 2015. That artist nets 5080 results for the Google search in question. The usually-surly Travis Scott talks about one artist, and one artist alone, in the breathless way that his fans talk about him. It’s not that those older guys haven’t made heartfelt music with heavy themes - they have - and it’s also not entirely because their heydays occurred before the blog era (Pink Floyd, the first old band that popped into my head, snags 198 “saved my life”s). Got any clips of anyone saying that Puffy and Mase saved their lives? How about Snoop and Dre? This is a completely unscientific metric, but Google searches for Puff, Mase, Snoop, and Dre’s individual names inside of quotes with “_ saved my life” all net results in the single digits. In outward appearance, swaggery, self-consciously hip hip-hop may not look like a salve for severe depression, and that’s probably due in part to history. It’s a little more surprising when that’s true for fans of an artist whose catchphrase is “it’s lit!” and who’s behind auditory bacchanals like “ Sloppy Toppy” and “ Beibs in the Trap” (this is gross oversimplification of Scott’s artistic palette, but stick with me here). It’s not uncommon for people to have such powerful, life-changing connections to their favorite music. “He makes you feel love - like somebody loves you out there.” Another is even more direct, addressing the camera as if it were Scott himself: “You saved my life.” “ was the first person to let me know that I wasn’t alone.” “He changes your heart,” one fan near-tearfully gushes about the rapper.
“In high school and shit, I was like, super depressed, I had no one to turn to,” one young man tells the camera.
But unless you or someone you love is a Travis Scott stan, it might surprise you to learn that, to many of those VLONE-clad novice moshers, this goes beyond turning up, and even beyond simply enjoying the music. The stage diving, the circle-pit-baiting, the shirtless dudes, the hypebeast attire - that’s all set dressing you’d expect if even remotely familiar with Scott’s image and sound. The film spends a good deal of its time at Scott’s concerts, where he’s gained a reputation as a raucous performer who sends his youthful audiences into frenzies. Last month, Travis Scott released Look Mom I Can Fly, a documentary centered around his blockbuster 2018 album Astroworld.
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