


The album's deepest verse by a great measure, it has no discernible connection to Scott's surrounding rhymes of cocksure nonsense. Among the present is André 3000, who drops by on "The Ends" to recollect the infamous rash of murders that struck his city during his early childhood. Released almost exactly a year after Rodeo, Birds in the Trap features little development, though the large company Scott keeps is quite different, and Metro Boomin is noticeably absent. It's easily the track with the most pop appeal on Scott's second full-length. "Pick Up the Phone" functioned as the lead single off Thug's JEFFERY, and it sensibly reappears here, buried in the latter half, de-emphasized yet not quite a tacked-on bonus. Whether it’s out this week or not, the project seems like it can’t bee too far away.Titled after one of Quavo's lines from the chirpy summertime 2016 hit co-billed to Travis Scott and Young Thug, this fitfully hypnotizing follow-up arrived after numerous delays, toward the end of the year's third quarter. Of course, fans will be up at midnight Thursday in anticipation either way. Travis posted a few photos to Instagram that suggest the project has wrapped, including a pic of a dead bird with the caption, “Just had my first listening session with the fam.” Meanwhile, his main collaborator, Mike Dean retweeted a tweet that read “#BITTSM IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!” as well as sending out his own tweet, saying “Time to let the birds fly soon.” No word on how soon that might be. Today, Travis has been assuring fans that the project is complete and will be arriving soon, and this time, it seems like it just might be for real. The last we heard Mike Dean was still in the mixing process. Travis Scott has made a lot of promises regarding the release of his upcoming project, Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight, but the project still hasn’t dropped.
