Travis Scott can be a photographer’s nightmare. From the onset of his career, La Flame’s made a habit of looking away from the camera lens in photos.
Some just assumed that looking down was his signature pose and done purposely, but Scott clarified in his new GQ: Man of the Year piece that isn’t the case.
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“Yeah, my head’s down. I’m not a picture guy,” he admitted. “I just put my head down because people are just snapping away.”
“I think people think I’m posing. I’m not. I’m just really just looking down. No, just looking down. And then when it’s over, we can laugh and do whatever again.”
Find some examples of Scott’s “pose” below:
Elsewhere in the interview, Scott explained that a ride with his daughter Stormi provided the genesis for UTOPIA, which was recently nominated for Best Rap Album at next year’s Grammy Awards.
“I was actually riding with Stormi… we were getting fireworks in Houston. Her favorite song is ‘Mamacita’ — it’s like, her favorite song of all time,” he said. “She plays it all the time in the car, over and over and over, and that’s from this mixtape Days Before Rodeo.
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“Just hearing that song over and over just reminded me of that time. I wanted to get back to the essence of who Travis Scott was as, like, a creator of music and sound.
The rapper continued: “To just go back to the core, what got me here, which is producing and creating and the raw format of how I’ve started making music. And I got so excited about that.”
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Travis Scott also reflected on the devastating 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy that left 10 people dead, which he channeled into his UTOPIA album — most specifically on the song “My Eyes.”
“Making music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things,” he said. “That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating.
“And when it came to making, like even finishing the album…I got back into it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months after. And the idea of just even getting back into music, working on music and just even getting into that, was therapeutic of being able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.”
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Asked about whether he was in a good state after the crowd crush, the Houston native replied: “Nah, not at all. I mean I was just overly devastated, you know. Yeah. I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the utmost.”
The Houston native’s Circus Maximus Tour continues this week with shows in Utah, Las Vegas and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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