Scott first appeared on the smaller B-stage at the back end of the arena. The 80-minute set started with a sleight of hand. In between, he blew up a giant inflatable astronaut and danced under an arcade's worth of lasers and lights. He rode a roller-coaster over the heads of the 15,000 fans during a couple of songs near the end. Scott, 26, strapped into a Super Loop-type ride and rolled upside down at the beginning of the show. The staging was based on his third album, "Astroworld," nominated for three Grammys a day earlier and named after the now-defunct, Texas-sized, Six Flags theme park in his hometown of Houston. (He also brought his wife Kylie Jenner and their infant daughter, setting off a minor tsunami on social media.) Cole and Jay-Z - all reaching for a bar set by his fellow Kardashian-in-law Kanye West's hi-fi tours - Scott literally brought an amusement park's array of bells, whistles, stunts and tricks to Minneapolis. Saturday's sold-out Travis Scott concert was one of the genre's farthest-reaching visual productions yet.įollowing on the pyro-singed heels of Drake, J. Rap concerts sure have come a long way from the days when the most exciting thing to look at was Snoop Dogg's uncle twirling a towel in the back corner of the stage.
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