Earlier this week Travis Scott treated fans to a rendition of his song “FE!N” During a headlining performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Scott played the track 10 times in a row (something he had previously done at a show in Tulsa).
Speaking to host Jimmy Fallon during an interview on The Tonight ShowScott explained that he feeds off his audience and tries to amp things up on stage.
“Man, I have the best fans in the world,” Scott told Fallon. “I register the energy they give me. And they were wild that night. And so I became even wilder.”
Scott isn't the first rapper to hit the snooze button during a concert. In 2012, Jay-Z and Kanye West performed their joint single “N-ggas In Paris” 12 times in a row for audiences in Paris. In 2017, Scott performed his single “Goosebumps” 14 times during a show in Houston.
“FE!N” comes off Scott's Grammy-nominated album Utopia, which dropped in the summer. Scott told Fallon that he found out about his Grammy nod while on tour. The rapper said his immediate reaction was “Yeah, okay this time we gotta bring it home!”
“It means a lot to me,” he added. “I love music and I love the Academy. I think some of the most amazing artists and talented artists have accomplished this. Both as a producer and as a writer and as a musician I take music very seriously. So I love it. It's amazing.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Scott discussed working with Beyonce, his custom Nikes and getting a drink spilled at the Knicks game.
Last month, Scott spoke of the horror of the Astroworld tragedy in his first comments on the incident since December 2021. During the incident, 10 people died and 25 spectators were hospitalized after crowds of people during the festival in Houston. Footage from the festival showed Scott carrying on with the concert, even as he appeared to notice that a fan had passed out. Hundreds of lawsuits followed, though Scott will not face criminal charges over the incident.
“I mean I was beyond devastated, you know. Yes,” Scott said. “I always think about it. These fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the core… You just feel for these people. And their families.”
He also acknowledged, “That moment for the families, for the city, you know, it was devastating.”
Scott pushed his career after the incident by releasing Utopia in July and performing dozens of concerts around the world over the past two years. Through it all, he said, the memory of what happened on Astroworld haunted him.
“The idea of going back to the music, working on the music, and even working on it, was therapeutic in being able to channel some of the energy into the production and the sounds and finish it,” Scott said.