It certainly doesn't feel like 15 months since Travis Scott dropped Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. The album still sounds as fresh as it did on release day, and Scott has continued to push his music forward at a furious pace.
He's stayed in our playlists with new music—"Butterfly Effect" and "4 AM" alone would mark a successful year for most artists—and been touring relentlessly, often atop his giant bird. But the Houston rapper has also continued to make headlines for the music yet to come. There's a collab album with Quavo that was shipped off for mixing last week (if Quavo is to be believed), and then, there's Astroworld.
The album has become something of a folk tale for the Houston rapper's fans. It's a project closely tied to his city: the name is derived from a local amusement park that closed in 2005, and that closure still stings. "They tore down AstroWorld to build more apartment space," Scott told GQ in May. "That’s what it’s going to sound like, like taking an amusement park away from kids. We want it back."
He's been talking about Astroworld since before BITTSM even dropped, describing one of the best albums of 2016 as a "stepping stone" to Astroworld. So needless to say, we need it. But all Scott gives us these days is one word: "soon."
Watch the timeline above to hear everything we know about Astroworld so far, and check out our new music recommendations for Travis Scott fans below.
