Travis Scott got the shock of a lifetime upon finding out that Adrien Brody makes beats.
The Utopia artist was interviewed by Eric Skelton for the latest Complex cover story and was notified that Cameron Diaz considers herself a Travis Scott fan.
After a moment of excitement, Scott was asked if it was "surprising" to run into other celebrities who support him. One person he brought up was two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, who recently won Best Actor at the 97th Academy Awards.
"Did you watch The Brutalist? That movie is hard as fuck. I hope he wins Best Actor. That’s my dog," Scott said just one month before the Oscars.
"I ran into him at a fashion show recently, and I’ve always been a fan of his. He’s been in Wes Anderson movies and shit, and worked with a lot of directors I fuck with," the Houston native continued. "I sat next to him and I’m like, 'Fuck, I don’t even know if this dude knows who I am.' And the first thing he tells me is, 'Yo, bro, I fuck with your shit.' And I’m like, 'What the fuck?'"
"He makes music, too. He’s like, 'You know, I make beats and shit,'" Scott recalled. "I’m like, 'You got to send me some beats!' So we chopped it up. Man, that fucked me up. That’s crazy. I get shit like that all the time."
While we await a potential Scott and Brody collaboration, the actor has been a longtime drummer in indie rock band Big Japan. Last December, he spoke to the Los Angeles Times about starring in 1994 film Angels in the Outfield, which prompted him to start beatmaking.
"That movie, by the way, got me making beats because I hung out with some kids in The Bay in Oakland who were producing and rapping," Brody said around the 2:45-minute mark below. "And I grew up in New York, in kind of like the birth of hip-hop, but I didn't know that I could actually go make tracks. And I started producing tracks with these guys and learned how to do it and went back to LA, and this was before the internet."
After 30 years of producing, we need to hear what Brody's been making all this time.
