On Repeat: JACKBOYS by Travis Scott and Co.
- Killjoy Reviews
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min read
By Dylan Shulman
This is the latest project from Travis Scott, and it was widely met with disappointment. Say what you will, Travis has a way of bringing people together. This 2019 project has seven songs, one of which is an instrumental, and the other six are hit or miss. Still, it is a really fun album to listen to. The project carries allusions to other projects such as Travis' "ASTROWORLD," "Rodeo," and Don Toliver's had-yet-to-be-released "Heaven Or Hell." Otherwise the topics covered in the album hit the big four for trappers and not much more: women, drugs, money, and violence. As a Travis project, the production is really nice. He maintains rapping over dark and stormy instrumentals with well-suited trap beats.
The remix of "HIGHEST IN THE ROOM" is full of auto-tuned goodness, clean flows and decent bars. The Rosalia feature is really nice and she does a fantastic job, making a spot for herself in between two trap champs. Lil Baby doesn't do too bad either, and this may have been the song that caused his popular feature run, spurring this tweet. "GANG GANG" is a lyrically unremarkable song with a mediocre feature from Sheck Wes, dumb but fun. It's followed by "Had Enough," a song that fuels my growing fascination with Don Toliver. Surely rock inspired, it has two of the three members of Migos, and a dope beat drop making it my favorite track on the album. "OUT WEST" absolutely has to be one of the most explicitly horny songs ever written, and in my opinion Young Thug even tops Kanye West's "I'm In It" by that criteria. Even if the lyrics are vulgar to the point of revulsion, the beat and delivery are full of high energy. "WHAT TO DO?" has Travis and Don Toliver discussing their drugs and money, nothing great but a decent track. Finally, it's time for me to break some hearts. Rest in peace, but I'm not a Pop Smoke fan. I think "GATTI" is a terrible song, and while I like the drill beat behind him, the chorus sounds like Pop Smoke forgot the words, just recorded saying "okay," and then released it.
Travis, Don Toliver, and the other JACKBOYS work together very well, and I think I need to pay more attention to Don Toliver. It's a mid project but one I keep coming back to. Super energetic and entertaining, with songs for hype playlists and workout mixes, I don't think it deserved all the hate it received upon its release.
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