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How Drake Lowkey Played A Huge Role In Travis Scott’s Rise To Fame · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Drake and Travis Scott are inarguably two
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Speaker 1: of the biggest rappers of this era, and they've even
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Speaker 1: teamed up, notably for the hot one topper sco Mode.
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Speaker 1: But the truth is their connection runs much deeper, because
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Speaker 1: it was Drake and his main producer, Forty, that literally
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Speaker 1: inspired Travis to first start recording after he read one
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Speaker 1: particular post on Drake's October's very own blog, Forty tells
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's podcast The ETCeteras. Travis Scott told me this
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Speaker 1: story when I first met him. He told me, Forty,
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Speaker 1: you did this post on Drake's blog where you wrote
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Speaker 1: all you need is a microphone, a music interface and
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Speaker 1: a cheap laptop and you can make music. You posted
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Speaker 1: that and I went and showed it to my mom.
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Speaker 1: I told her that she had it by this and
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Speaker 1: that I begged her for it and she bought it
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Speaker 1: from me. It was Travis's homespun songs off that very
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Speaker 1: gear that first got him attention and transformed him into
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest artists on Earth. That's direct from Hollywood.