Travis Scott<\/a>, going from a college dropout to one of Hip-Hop\u2019s top curators, and more.<\/p>\n\n\tYou\u2019ve got your mixtape,\u00a0Be Very Afraid<\/em>, on the way. What\u2019s the inspiration behind the title?<\/strong>
Be Very Afraid<\/em>\u00a0is kind of me stepping out and being like, \u201cAll right, y\u2019all might know of me from other spaces, on the stage, or maybe a certain club or whatever, but this is me kind of putting my flag down. This is exactly who Chase B is.\u201d Even just sonically, I feel like it really enunciates who I am and my preferences. I feel like you can hear a lot of me through the music. Obviously, I\u2019m not rapping at all. I would never, but this is really just me personified through music.\u00a0Be Very Afraid<\/em>\u00a0is like foreshadowing. I got a lot more music that\u2019s probably going to come out this year, too. It\u2019s me gearing up for everything I\u2019ve got and just dropping it. \u201cNo more holding onto music.\u201d That\u2019s the motto.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tHow would you describe the mood and vibe of this project?<\/strong>
This mixtape is really progressive. That\u2019s why I wanted to come out with \u201cSatellite\u201d as the first song because you can hear those dance elements, those electronic elements at the beginning, and it switches to this whole trap energy when Faygo\u2019s verse comes in. I wanted that to be the pillar of the mixtape and all the types of shit I\u2019m interested in. You got the house kind of rhythm with dance and an electronic melody in the background. I really feel like you are levitating at certain points.<\/p>\n\n\tThere are instrumentals I wanted to include, and there\u2019s obviously some hard rap shit. There are some R&B elements with some samples; it\u2019s just a lot. It\u2019s a really open format, and that\u2019s who I am as a DJ. I really wanted to take this opportunity to give that to people. Correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but it really hasn\u2019t been done before, like an open-format kind of genre-less producer mixtape.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen did the process for this project start?<\/strong>
If you want to take it all the way back, to be honest, this shit started in 2018, 2019, or something like that. When my homie Jerry called me up \u2014 I still lived in New York at the time \u2014 and was like, \u201cYo, would you ever put that project out? Def Jam called me, and he was asking if you were interested in putting out your own project.\u201d I had never even thought about it before that. I was like, \u201cYeah, I guess I could.\u201d So in 2018, I signed with Columbia, and we were in the middle of a tour at that time. I didn\u2019t have a single for the longest, and they started calling me like, \u201cYo, when are you going to deliver all this shit?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tMy first song was actually \u201cMayday\u201d with Young Thug and Sheck [Wes]. That\u2019s when I started building the whole project together. It was a totally different project from what it is now. Most of those songs even came out. \u201cMayday\u201d went out. We put a song out for me with Kendrick Man and Blood Bat. This is all during COVID. All these [songs] were supposed to be on one mixtape, but rap culture moves so fast that songs would come out on other people\u2019s projects. \u201cRing Ring\u201d came out, I want to say, in 2023. Mike Caren over at APG [Artist Partner Group] was doing a lot of work with Don, and he just really loved the song.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tI signed on with APG to put this mixtape out, and it changed a lot. Even over the last two years, just regarding features. There are 13 songs on the project, and these are the ones I feel are most cohesive, progressive, advanced, and modern-sounding. This specific project probably started two or three years ago to get it all done.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther than \u201cSatellite,\u201d which three tracks are you most excited for fans to hear and why?<\/strong>
I saw this crazy Cleo Soul sample, and I\u2019m just so grateful she cleared it \u2019cause I know she does not clear samples for everybody. That one was super special. That\u2019s the R&B components I\u2019m kind of talking about, and Trav and Sean\u2019s verses are super sentimental. It\u2019s just really important. And there\u2019s a song on there called \u201cOff at 7\u201d with Sheck that I\u2019m really excited about<\/p>\n\n\tI saw this crazy Cleo Soul sample, and I\u2019m just so grateful she cleared it \u2019cause I know she does not clear samples for everybody. That one was super special. That\u2019s the R&B components I\u2019m kind of talking about, and Trav and Sean\u2019s verses are super sentimental. It\u2019s just really important. And there\u2019s a song on there called \u201cOff at 7\u201d with Sheck that I\u2019m really excited about.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s kind of like a pseudo 2000s kind of R&B\/Hip-Hop joint. People don\u2019t really hear shit like this on too many joints. The beat is hard as hell, and super simple like a crazy loop.<\/p>\n
\n\tMost memorable moment from the making of\u00a0Be Very Afraid<\/em>?<\/strong>
I just feel like the whole process of putting out my debut project. This whole situation, I learned a lot from it, especially as far [as] getting all this shit cleared at the same time. Turning in that final tracklist and being like, \u201cYo, this is exactly what I\u2019m coming with.\u201d I learned so much from it, and I\u2019m just so ready for the next one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tWhat message or feeling do you hope listeners take away from this mixtape?<\/strong>
I just really want people to feel like, \u201cAll right, this is kind of refreshing, and it\u2019s brand new.\u201d This is a DJ-first, producer-second mixtape, so I want other DJs to go out and challenge themselves into making this music and add their branding and sonic stamp. That\u2019s what I really want people to take away: just loving the craft that much to articulate yourself through the music. That\u2019s what I feel this project really did for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tCactus Jack artists are known for doing big visuals, from stage sets to music videos. How do you plan to bring this project to life on stage or visually?<\/strong>
It\u2019s crazy \u2019cause I feel like this is my opportunity to be the only DJ producer to bring that energy to Cactus Jack, have these big Coachella sets instead of the whole conventional rap set, bring these songs to the world, and over to Europe and just play my part when it comes to that.<\/p>\n\n\tI had a whole meeting this morning about my visuals for the tour and what we\u2019re going to do this summer. I feel like that angle I come in is bringing that super, loud, crazy energy and having visuals actually do most of the talking \u2019cause, obviously, I\u2019m not going to be on stage rapping [or] anything like that. The visuals and the music go hand in hand with you as a DJ producer, so I\u2019m getting ready for that.<\/p>\n
\n\tA lot of people know about Houston, but you\u2019re from Missouri City, Texas. Tell us a little bit about \u201cMo City\u201d and your upbringing.<\/strong>
I consider \u201cMo City\u201d the perfect place to grow up. It\u2019s just the perfect blend [of] everything. We had like the crazy white boys and the super gangster ni**as at the same time, and sports were always a huge thing.<\/p>\n\n\tIt was the perfect high school setting [for] whatever you were trying to get into. If you\u2019re [in] downtown Houston, \u201cMo City\u201d is probably like 25 minutes away. It\u2019s a little more suburban, but still, you get all that Houston energy and all that type of sh*t. It\u2019s kind of like our sector of Houston, you know? I\u2019m still in touch with most people I grew up with. My mother\u2019s still [there]. She actually just retired and taught at Clear Valley Middle School. I\u2019m always 10-15 minutes away from \u201cMo City\u201d for real.<\/p>\n
\n\tCan you speak to the legacy of \u201cMo City\u201d as far as Texas Hip-Hop?<\/strong>
We had Z-Ro putting on for us when we were growing up. Then, obviously, we\u2019ll try to be at the forefront of being from Missouri City and all that type of shit. But just being from the south side in general, especially with the whole Screw movement and just that sound, it was like you got Michael 5000 Watts from the north side, and then DJ Screw from the south side. So that just kind of always resonated with us. Screw, to me, he\u2019s Top 5 forever just because of the whole culture he brought to the city that we\u2019re from.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tHow would you describe your musical background?<\/strong>
The thing about my shit is that, especially with putting this project out, it was almost like a backward effect. It wasn\u2019t like me wanting to be in it and then finding a love for it. It\u2019s just my love for it that made me want to be in it, you know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n\n\tI\u2019m very much a DJ first, so it\u2019s kind of like me just studying the craft and seeing who came before me, and the importance of all five pillars of Hip-Hop. When I started DJing, I was like, \u201cHold on, let me go back and really study\u00a0Wild Style<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Krush Groove\u00a0<\/em>and see all these people. It had nothing to do with what I was actually doing; I just wanted to be that much immersed in everything Hip-Hop and everything DJ culture, so I went back and studied the fashion, then the graffiti. I just really wanted to know everything. When I started DJing, it just kind of led into, \u201cOh shit, well, if I can go out and play other people\u2019s music, let me go take this a step further and be like a Clark Kent or a DJ Premier.\u201d I don\u2019t have a musical background. My pops and my mother didn\u2019t play the guitar, sing, or anything like that. It was really just me finding the love, finding my groove, and then taking it from there.<\/p>\n\n\tHow did you and Travis first link in school?<\/strong>
Our schools were probably five minutes away from each other. [With] Texas High School flag football being so big, it\u2019s like we just kind of always ended up in these certain circles. We always ended up at the same after-parties, at the same restaurants, [or] whatever. I\u2019ve probably known Travis since we were like 11 to 12 years old. We were always just involved with each other and what we were doing. Obviously, he was super involved in the music, [but] I wasn\u2019t at the time. We were just cool. He was just playing me all the sh*t he was making, and the shit just sounded crazy. But we met way before high school and just [grew] super close. Our moms are super close. It\u2019s like a whole thing. It\u2019s way deeper than rap when it comes to me and him. We\u2019ve had this relationship for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\tHow was the journey from you starting off as a DJ at Howard to linking with Travis?<\/strong>
When I started DJing and everything, I honestly wasn\u2019t that good. I just knew everybody from emceeing or whatever. He [Travis] would send me his music, and I would just go out to the house parties and play it for people. Everybody was fucking with it. It was a whole thing, like, \u201cWho is this?\u201d Trav actually came to Howard one time and was kicking with me in my crib. We ran around to different stores and sh*t, just giving mixtapes out. We were really doing everything guerilla-style way before any project or artist deal got done, or anything like that. We were just stuck in it. When his music started to take off, it wasn\u2019t even a conversation of, \u201cAm I your DJ?\u201d It was kind of like, \u201cOh shit, we\u2019ve got a show on Thursday.\u201d It was obvious that this is what this shit [is] about to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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