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Travis Scott says Pusha T's version of the story about what went down at Pharrell Williams' studio is "crazy."
Push previously explained that his interaction with Scott at P's studio at the Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris inspired his scathing verse on Clipse's hit "So Be It" from their Grammy-nominated album Let God Sort Em Out. He alleged Scott interrupted their recording session to play his UTOPIA album for Pharrell, including his song "Meltdown" without Drake's verse. In a new interview Rolling Stone published on Wednesday, January 21, Scott shared his side of the story for the first time.
“When you go back and look at it … it’s crazy," he recalled. "N***as said I had a film crew [with me]. I’m like, ‘What?’ I remember when I pulled up, it was them n***as that had a film crew. I’m talking about the little microphone on the stick and all of that. I was like, ‘Oh, s**t. Am I in a documentary?’”
“A lot of s**t [Pusha] was saying just didn’t make sense to me," he continued. "It was like he was saying I was interrupting s**t and I was playing them s**t. First of all, I can’t interrupt something that somebody asked me to come pull up on. So when I hear that type of s**t, it’s just like, I don’t know, man. If you got to drop Trav name for the rollout, so be it.”
In his interview with GQ, Push said he and his brother, Malice, weren't into his music because they were in the middle of recording their own. He told the magazine that Scott "wanted to film us and Pharrell listening to it." He said Scott played "Meltdown" for them, but he didn't play Drake's verse, which contains bars about melting down Pharrell's jewelry after he bought it. When it comes to that part of the story, Scott said it was true but claimed he didn't have Drake's verse when he played it.
“I’ve always been a person who tried to put the best worlds all together. And I just think when worlds come together, the music just sounds so ill,” he said. “You got to think, man, rap is only what, 51 years old? That’s just young as hell. It’s a genre that’s still growing, so people are really trying to see the growth of it.”
Since "So Be It" dropped, Scott has responded on JACKBOYS 2 and during a show overseas. Yet, this is the first time he's spoken on the infamous interaction at Pharrell's studio. Read the entire cover story here.