In December 2019, Travis Scott and the late Pop Smoke linked up for the song “GATTI” from the first JACKBOYS compilation. The drill track peaked at No. 69 on the Hot 100 and marked Pop Smoke’s first entry on the chart. Unfortunately, two months later, Pop Smoke would lose his life at just 20 years old in an armed robbery shooting while staying in Los Angeles.
In a new episode of Complex’s On Display series, Scott discussed creating the music video with Pop Smoke and the major purchase he made for the love of the game.
La Flame needed a “GATTI”
Instead of renting the luxury Bugatti Chiron (allegedly worth more than 5 million dollars) seen in the music video, Scott bought the vehicle out of the lot to make the visuals more authentic.
“I remember I was doing the song, and Pop’s like, ‘You know, we gotta bring Bugattis out, man!’ I forgot who was helping us with the video,” Scott recalled. “The guy was like, ‘Yeah, man, I know somebody that can bring some Bugattis out for us’…I’m thinking, ‘Bring ’em out for us?’ Nah, fuck that. So I’m like, ‘Naw, I’m just gonna go and get this.’ We was at the shoot, me and Pop. He was like, ‘Man, damn bro. This shit smells brand new.’ I was like ‘Yeah, bro. I just got it like a week ago,’” he said.
During their link-up, Scott made sure to give the Brooklyn native his flowers, not knowing this would be their first and last collaboration.
“You one of the illest rappers…I feel like you changing the whole sound of New York. I don’t even know if you know right now, but from the sound of the beats to the way you putting it together, it’s gonna create an allegiance of sound and the creatives so you gonna have a million [Bugattis],” he said to Pop Smoke.
In the rest of the video from Complex, Scott showed off other cars in his collection, including his Lamborghini Urus and Mercedes-Maybach G650 Landaulet. However, his story about Pop Smoke hit fans the hardest.
