Travis Scott‘s super-sized roll-out of his Utopia album continued on Tuesday (Aug. 15) with the free YouTube posting of his 75-minute Circus Maximus movie, in addition to 4 Utopia music movies.
The trippy movie — which performed in choose theaters on the album’s July twenty eighth launch date — opens with a scene by which Scott goals he’s being enveloped by a huge sea creature earlier than setting off on a quest throughout a desolate panorama that brings him to a lavish mansion the place he meets up with producer Rick Rubin.
Seen via a keyhole, their interplay initially finds Rubin asking probing questions (“is the home half empty, or fully empty?,” “how are the youngsters?,” “are you continue to crying?,” “how in regards to the medicine, are they nonetheless working, or are you simply uninterested in them?”) as an exasperated Scott tries to collect his ideas.
What unfolds over the following hour-plus is a head-spinning movie — written by Scot and co-directed by the rapper, Andrew Dosunmu and Kahlil Joseph — that comes with all 19 tracks from the feature-filled album in a sequence of colourful vignettes. It bounces from Scott rapping “Hyaena” in an African village, to the MC collaborating in a Catalan-style human tower construct in “Sirens,” all intercut with bits of the Rubin interview.
Elsewhere, there’s a futuristic taxi chase set to the Beyoncé-assisted “Delresto (Echoes),” a strobing underground dance occasion for “Trendy Jam” and a few recent footage cued to “Hyaena” and a remix of “Jam” by which Scott stands in entrance of a large wall of audio system in Rome’s Circus Maximus, which bleeds into an prolonged run of footage from the latest album launch present within the historical venue that drew 60,000 followers and a shock Kanye West cameo.
The break-out movies for “Sirens,” “Trendy Jam,” “Hyaena” and “Delresto (Echoes)” are all variations of the clips that seem within the Maximus film. Utopia has dominated the Billboard 200 albums chart for 2 weeks in a row, incomes 147,000 equal album models within the U.S. for the week ending Aug. 10, down 70%, in line with Luminate, from its debut the week earlier than with 496,000 models earned.
Take a look at the Scott movies under.
