Travis Scott has been teasing Jackboys 2, a compilation album consisting of himself and the other artists on his label—Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, and SoFaygo—since March and hinting at it for at least a year now, so its eventual release was always going to be an event. Even though it’s not the full-on blockbuster event that a solo Travis release is, the first Jackboys tape that dropped around Christmas 2019 gave us bangers like “Gatti” and “Out West;” expectations that the sequel would birth heaters of a similar temperature were a given.
But once Pusha T dissed Travis a few weeks ago on the new Clipse song “So Be It,” all eyes were suddenly on Travis to see if he would use J2 as a platform to respond.
Now Jackboys 2 is finally out, and Travis wastes no time addressing current events—ever so slightly.
After some opening words from Travis’s fellow Texan Bun B, who narrates the entire project with anecdotes and asides, the album kicks off with “Champain & Vacay,” featuring Travis and Don, with ad-libs from Waka Flocka Flame. Towards the end of his verse, Travis raps “Man these old n-ggas kill me/Know my YNs feel me… Blue Bugatti, dodgin TMZ/Made a hundred off of pushin tees/Now my phone on DND.”
To recap: Pusha felt compelled to give Travis a heat check for flaunting his friendship with Pharrell during his Utopia album rollout, just to let Drake hop on that same album in the eleventh hour to spitting a verse dissing P and Pusha. The eight bars that close off “So Be It” are ominous and loaded, a warning shot to stay over there or things might get worse. Pusha didn’t mince words when explaining his intent, telling this magazine that he thinks of Travis as “a whore” with no sense of allegiance, loyalty or moral standard.
