ASTROWORLD by Travis Scott

ASTROWORLD, Travis Scott's third studio album, dropped on August 3, 2018 through his own Cactus Jack imprint and Grand Hustle, with Epic distributing. It's named for Six Flags AstroWorld, the defunct theme park in his native Houston; Scott said he wanted it to sound like kids having their amusement park taken away, and he pitched it as a continuation of his 2015 debut, Rodeo.

The ride is psychedelic rap with trap bones: woozy, shape-shifting beats from a small army of producers including Scott himself, Mike Dean, Hit-Boy, WondaGurl, Tay Keith, Tame Impala and Thundercat, and a guest list that runs from Drake, Frank Ocean and the Weeknd to Kid Cudi, James Blake and Philip Bailey. "Sicko Mode", with Drake, lurches from beat to beat like a coaster jumping tracks, and it became his first number one on the Hot 100. The album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 with 537,000 units, went six times platinum, won Album of the Year at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.

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