Travis Scott has a message for everyone clowning him over those viral DJ booth fail compilations, and it starts with one thing: his love for smashing laptops.
In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Scott leaned into his chaotic reputation and explained why so many clips online appear to show him fumbling controls or "messing up" while DJing. But before addressing the internet jokes, he opened up about a long-running habit that fans have come to associate with his high-energy nightlife appearances: destroying computers mid-rage.
"See, that's a whole other rage," he said. "You know, I just, a computer and I, we got a bond, man… Yeah, it's up and it's just so turnt, closest thing there is just, you know, me and QWERTY keyboard."
Scott described the laptop-smashing moments as pure adrenaline, not fueled by substances, but by the intensity of the crowd and the atmosphere around him.
"It's not even like alcohol or nothing," he said. "It's literally just pure energy."
And sometimes that energy comes at a cost, including computers that don't even belong to him.
"Yeah, it was one computer was my homie's computer," Scott admitted.
The rapper then addressed the wave of viral posts compiling clips of him seemingly "DJing terribly," claiming the situation is often misunderstood or intentionally staged to make him look bad.
"I've been seeing these little videos… these compilations… fucking up in the DJ booth," he said. "A lot of these times y'all see these videos, I'm walking up to somebody else's like computer and they're asking me to do something that I don't want to do in this time."
Scott insists he knows his way around a laptop when it comes to playing music, but blames much of the chaos on malfunctioning equipment, and people putting him in a bad position.
"I know how to play music off a laptop," he said. "A lot of these fools, computers are just fucked up… command keys aren't working and shit like that."
He added, "They kind of like set you up, so you hit a button and it's like, oh, shit," he explained. "Then you look at them, they look at you like…"
Despite the drama, Scott made it clear he's not showing up to clubs just for appearances and he's not interested in the standard VIP routine but rather turning up.
"I don't like being in a club just to stand and pop bottles," he said. "I love to just listen to music, you know, see what's really going, and, you know, um, that's why I spend a lot, like a lot of time in Europe. I mean, I've always been into house music, and, like, Crystal Castle, it's not house music butlike Crystal Castle is like, one of my favorites. Just an element of, like, universe, like, a DC 10 or some shit like that."