Travis Scott is addressing one of the most talked-about lyrical disputes of the past year. The Houston rapper graces the latest cover of Rolling Stone, where he responds directly to Pusha T’s pointed bars on “So Be It,” offering his clearest account yet of the Paris studio moment that fueled the tension.
The disagreement traces back to 2023, during the final stages of Scott’s Utopia era. Pusha T has claimed that Scott unexpectedly appeared at a studio session hosted by Pharrell Williams in Paris, interrupted work with Clipse, selectively played material from Utopia, and filmed reactions while notably excluding Drake’s verse on “Meltdown.” That verse would later draw attention for its sharp references to Pharrell, a longtime collaborator and close friend of Pusha.
Scott strongly disputes that version of events. Speaking to Rolling Stone, he says the narrative presented in the song felt distorted from the start. “A lot of sh*t [Pusha] was saying just didn’t make sense to me,” Scott explains. He insists that he did not interrupt anything, emphasizing that Pharrell personally invited him to the session. “I can’t interrupt something that somebody asked me to come pull up on,” he adds.
He also pushes back on claims that he arrived with a film crew to capture reactions for content. Scott recalls the opposite. According to him, it was others in the room who had professional recording equipment. “N*ggas said I had a film crew. I’m like, ‘What?’” he says. “I remember when I pulled up, it was them that had a film crew, with the little microphone on the stick and all of that.”
As for the absence of Drake’s “Meltdown” verse, Scott says the explanation is simple. The verse, he claims, had not yet been completed at the time of the listening session. Any suggestion that he intentionally withheld it to avoid discomfort or to play both sides, he argues, is unfounded.
Scott appears largely unbothered by the diss itself, framing it instead as part of the modern rap ecosystem. “If you got to drop Trav name for the rollout, so be it,” he says, suggesting that his visibility makes him an easy target.
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