Travis Scott Performs "Meltdown" With Drake For the First Time

Aggro Dr1ft premieres in a few days and is described as “gamecore” with lots of strippers and guns 🎮️ read more below. In other news today:

• Song streams & revenue 💰️ 

• Utopia week-over-week revenue 🤑 

• Eminem & MGK “to be killed on sight” as targets of Jacksonville shooter 😳 

• Everything we know about Aggro Dr1ft starring Travis Scott 🎮️ 

• The crazy way Rob49 ended up on Utopia for “Topia Twins” 🤯 

• New Music Friday releases 💿️ 

• Industry Insights 📈 

Song Streams & Revenue

It’s a new Thursday and a new song revenue chart. As reported by Hits Double Daily, which tracks streaming revenue week over week, the above chart reflects the streaming period from August 18th to 24th.

For the third week in a row, Gunna’s “fukumean” is the most profitable rap song from streaming revenue, generating $93K from 19M streams. It’s been on the Billboard Hot 100 for ten consecutive weeks, peaking at #4.

Utopia week-over-week revenue

It’s been one month of Utopia and Travis Scott’s combined streaming revenue for “Meltdown,” “I Know,” “Fe!n,” and “Telekinesis,” week over week, is…

• $452K from 93M streams in its first week

• $259K from 53M streams in its second week

• $233K from 48M streams in its third week

• $191K from 39M streams in its fourth week

Jacksonville Shooter Wanted Eminem and MGK “to be Killed on Sight”

On August 26th, a racist gunman killed three Black people at a dollar store in Jacksonville, FL, and his writings reveal his desire to kill Eminem and MGK as well. Rolling Stone reviewed two disturbing passages full of racist and homophobic remarks that suggest the gunman, Ryan Palmeter, was once close enough to MGK to take a shot.

“[Eminem] walks the edge of ni**er lover and honorary ni**er. Fell off not because his new stuff sucked but because the lyrics were gay annoying liberal shit. ROE for Total Ni**er Death is to include Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers, aka Slim Shady, aka Ken Keniff, aka the white guy from D12) as a valid target, and he is to be killed on sight,” the shooter wrote.

He then turns his pen to MGK, writing, “Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly): Honorable ni**er. To be killed on sight like Eminem because I didn’t get a shot at him up in Ohio.” It’s unclear when Palmeter was in the same proximity as MGK, but it suggests he’d been planning these racist attacks for some time.

Multiple writings were recovered from electronic devices that show “a hatred against African Americans and belief in the inferiority of Black people. There’s also evidence he harbored anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Semitic grievances,” said FBI agent Sherri Onks in a briefing call on Monday.

The shooting took place two days before the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Along with the manifestos, swastikas were drawn on the two firearms used. 21-year-old Palmeter murdered two men, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr (19) and Jerrald Gallion (29), and one woman, Angela Michelle Carr (52), before killing himself.

Travis Scott Performs “Meltdown” with Drake & Stars in Upcoming Aggro Dr1ft “gamecore” Film

Earlier this week, there was speculation that Travis Scott would replace 21 Savage for the Vancouver stop of It’s All A Blur tour, and sources were correct. “Oh yeah, for the first time ever in Vancouver, Astro, and The Boy, we in this bitch,” Drake said before he performed “Meltdown.”

They also performed “Sicko Mode,” and Travis performed “FE!N” without Playboi Carti.

It was reported in March that 21 Savage wouldn’t be attending any of the Canadian tour dates, likely due to his ongoing immigration issues after he was arrested by ICE agents in 2019. J. Cole stepped in for the Montreal dates, but Travis fittingly filled in for Vancouver after announcing his own Circus Maximus tour.

Kicking off in October, Travis will be taking Utopia to 28 cities across North America, ending in December. As expected, ticket prices are super reasonable if you have an extra $600 you don’t need. The Ticketmaster floor plan reveals a weirdly shaped stage layout with floor seats surrounding it.

Everything we know about Aggro Dr1ft

Aside from the tour, Travis is starring in an upcoming movie directed by Harmony Korine, who also worked on the Circus Maximus film for Utopia. Details were scarce when the film was first announced this summer, but as the premiere approaches, more has been revealed.

Aggro Dr1ft is described as an experimental action movie filmed entirely with infrared photography, per the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film will be screened on Sept. 11th.

In just 80 mins, it tells the story of “the world’s greatest assassin,” named BO, as he prepares to vanquish a demonic crime lord in Miami. Spanish actor Jordi Mollà plays the assassin, and Travis stars alongside him as a “literal snaked-tongued militia leader.”

Hip-hop electronic producer Araabmuzik, best known for collaborations with A$AP Rocky and Cardi B, is scoring the film soundtrack. The movie’s plot is said to be very minimal, so don’t expect intricate storytelling, and places a greater emphasis on the unique visual stylings. Korine calls the aesthetic “gamecore” reminiscent of crime-ridden video games like Grand Theft Auto.

GQ writer Zach Baron, who saw an early screening, said, “It’s got the repetitive cadence of a video game cutscene, plenty of strippers, plenty of guns.” The description could sound more on-brand for a Travis Scott acting debut.

Aggro Dr1ft’s first premiere is at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3rd, but no official release to the public has been announced yet.

The Crazy Way Rob49 Ended Up on Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’

“If I ever made music with somebody, we like each other in real life—it’s not one of those,” Rob49 says, calling in from Atlanta. The only thing more impressive than securing a feature on Utopia, one of the most highly anticipated rap albums in the last five years, is having Travis Scott genuinely fuck with you in real life.

So much so that Travis invited him to Rome for the Utopia performance, but he couldn’t go because of a lost passport.

Despite not making the trip, you could hear Rob49’s booming voice full of rowdy energy when Travis performed “Topia Twins.” His verse wasn’t sent in or finessed via label bureaucracy but was a byproduct of his authenticity, recorded after a night of partying with La Flame.

Below, Rob49 chats to RapTV about the first time he met Travis Scott, the Utopia song he passed on for “Topia Twins,” and his three principles for a good collaboration.

How did your feature on “Topia Twins” come together?

We was at the club the night before, and we ain’t never wanna go home, just partying hard. [Travis] don’t like going home, he ain’t want me to leave, so we stayed out all night. The next day they called me like, ‘Pull up to the office,’ I pulled up to the office. [Travis was] like, ‘You ready to go make some music?’ I’m like ‘wtf, hell yeah, let’s go.’

We ended up going [to the studio] he played me the stuff with him and Pharrell, him and The Weeknd, that song they got with Bad Bunny. He was telling me I could get on any one of those, but then he played “Topia Twins,” and I was like ‘Let’s do our own shit.’

Why did you pass on the “K-POP” song with The Weeknd and Bad Bunny?

The reason I didn’t get on The Weeknd one [is] because I’m really a Weeknd fan [and] I want my first song with The Weeknd to be just me. Not finessing a feature, I don’t do that.

A lot of people probably don’t know you performed with Travis at TAO LA last year

Oh yeah, I ain’t going lie, I was kind of like, cause my song [Vulture Island V2] was just picking up, but he knew it like crazy, so he telling me go crazy with it, but they not knowing it in the crowd. I’m kind of shy, like I don’t even want to rap my shit, but he’s telling me right beside, so I just did it.

Did you know Travis before that, or was that the first time you met?

That was our first time meeting, we met that night. We didn’t meet at the club though we met at the office, and we was chilling, and then we winded up being like, ‘Let’s go to the club.’ It was just a natural vibe, we were just vibing hard.

New Music Friday

J.I.D announced he’s dropping a new album soon, and the first two singles with Lil Yachty and BabyTron arrive tonight. Here’s all the music dropping tonight—categorized by 💿️ for albums and 🎶 for singles:

• 💿️ SIXTAPE3 by Blxst, Bino Rideaux

• 💿️ Flying Objects by Smoke DZA, Flying Lotus

• 💿️ E3 by midwst

• 💿️ Blue Moon by Coi Leray

• 🎶 Van Gogh by J.I.D, Lil Yachty

• 🎶 Half Doin’ Dope by J.I.D, BabyTron

• 🎶 Kat Food by Lil Wayne

• 🎶 Street Sweeper by Chase B, Swae Lee

• 🎶 Demons by Doja Cat

• 🎶 Last Time I Saw You by Nicki Minaj

• 🎶 Bonecrusher by Maxo Kream, Key Glock

• 🎶 No Fake Love by Queen Naija, NBA YoungBoy

• 🎶 Die Today by EARTHGANG

• 🎶 Goodfellas by Conway The Machine, 38 Spesh, Benny The Butcher

• J.I.D announces new album Forever & a Day along with a new single ft. Lil Yachty. He confirmed that the new album will be dropping before his collaborative project with Metro Boomin.

• Nicki Minaj says her upcoming song with Drake on For All The Dogs is Young Money nostalgia. “The song I did with Drake recently put me in the feels,” she revealed in a TikTok livestream.

• 50 Cent is reportedly a battery suspect after hitting Power 106 host with a microphone. The performer got fed up with faulty microphones and threw one in the crowd, leaving Bryhana Monegain injured.

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