If you like Travis Scott
For fans who come for the rage, the reverb and the beat switches: where that sound came from, where it is going next, and one from home.
7 picks, none of them the obvious ones. Tell us what you think of each.
Start with: Ginseng Strip 2002
Hazy, half-ironic cloud rap from Stockholm that wrote the rulebook for a decade of drugged-out, atmospheric hip-hop. Travis's dark side, a few years early.
Start with: Be Nice 2 Me
Auto-tune pushed until it turns into pure feeling. If the melodic, floaty moments on Utopia are your favourite part, start here.
Start with: Faneto
The blueprint for rage: a relentless beat and a hook built to be screamed in a mosh pit. Every rager since owes this one a little.
Start with: if looks could kill
Dark, syrupy and endlessly replayable. The Opium sound at its moodiest, with the same cinematic gloom Travis builds his best songs on.
Start with: Nothing Like Uuu
Spacey, glitchy and very young. The next generation of the sound, raised entirely on SoundCloud and already doing its own thing with it.
Start with: Big Dawgs
Kerala's heaviest export: a bass-loud flex with a stadium-sized hook. Proof the energy you love in Travis is being made right here at home too.
Start with: Nanchaku
Delhi's sharpest duo trading bars over a beat that hits like a festival drop. If you want Indian hip-hop with real weight, this is the door.
Not sure where to start?