Though becoming a stadium artist was a huge bucket list moment for Travis Scott in 2023, achieving such a feat with his children in attendance during his SoFi performance in L.A., a performance that was a part of his Circus Maximus Tour, was the real cherry on top. In his latest cover story with Billboard, Scott beamed joyfully when speaking about his career’s biggest championship moment.
“When I was walking through SoFi and had my little ones with me, they got on the stage,” Scott tells Billboard‘s deputy director of hip-hop/R&B Carl Lamarre of his children — son Aire and daughter Stormi — whom he shares with former partner Kylie Jenner. “I remember my [3-year-old] son — he can talk — he was like, ‘Yo, who’s performing here?’ My daughter was like, ‘Daddy!’ My son was like, ‘All these people.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, it’s going to be kind of turnt.’ He’s like, ‘For real?’ Stormi’s like, ‘Yeah.’ She’s like describing the show. There’s all this pyro and people are going crazy. I was like, ‘Yeah, this is tight.’ I always wanted to do stadiums, and it was kind of cool to have the little ones understand and know what I’m doing. They were amped for the show. So that was lit.”
Scott also gushed about his daughter Stormi’s new favorite song, “Thank God,” from his 2023 blockbuster album UTOPIA, which topped her previous go-to jam, “Mamacita.”
“I love it, man. F–k! I still listen to that album, too,” Scott said, highlighting his 7-year-old’s love for his older catalog. “It just reassures me that I’m not f–king crazy. This s–t hard. That’s how I know that Stormi’s turnt. Out of all the songs, that song’s turnt and she loves it. Her new favorite song is now ‘Thank God.’ I don’t know if it’s because she’s on it. She didn’t know she was on it until she heard the album. She’s like, ‘That’s me!’ She knows every word. It’s cool to see even the youth is tapped in on that level. It’s ill. It gives me a reason to wake up.”