Was arguing with a Travis stan about how Travis is more of an a&r / curator than a real artist. Tried to come at me for listening to Sah & Lucki calling them both Young Thug clones (yes, he called Lucki a thug clone ) and I responded by saying Sah might be a Thug clone but he's more influential than Travis.

At first I said it just to piss them off, but then I started thinking about it, and who the f*** has Travis influenced? Maybe it's just the lane that I listen to, but I genuinely can't think of any successful artists that are out here sounding like Travis clones. I'm sure being as big as he is, he must be influencing some people, but who???? Is his music at this point simply too generic & watered down to really be inspiring/influential like that?

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yeah he def is a lot of production and vocal style is pretty derivative of him

culture era migos
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a lot of uzis vocal style
trippie

Killy said that Travis influenced him a lot

Yup you're actually very right about Culture era migos (at least Quavo). Uzi I disagree so so so strongly lol (point me to songs tho maybe im tripping)

He’s pretty much what most songs on the radio sounded like pre-dababy

Travis just a cudi x kanye baby

i’m thinking this like Scott & Ramona

you can just as easily point to sosa but the combo of production style with the way the autotune is is a lot closer to rodeo era travis than sosa

Idk rodeo travis sounded a lot rougher

Yeah obviously but u could say Thug is a Wayne baby & Keef is a Gucci baby, but look at how widespread their influence goes I guess maybe though bc they've continuously evolved their sound and developed dozens of their own sounds whereas Travis has remained a Ye x Cudi son his whole career

Niggas tried to do the beat switch gimmick 😂😂

Yeah thats why i feel like anything niggas get off him really cant be credited to just him

travis more influential for sound not rapping so it's harder to see. Travis not really that influential tho.

Idkkkk about that. Also Uzi has many times directly said that he's super influenced by Keef and listens to a ton of Keef to this day (never heard him say anything remotely like that about travis), so i think it's a safer bet that that's keef influence (although as a Keef stan i dont even really hear keef influence there tbh. Uzi had developed his own sound at that point)

This, Uzi would never have linked up with Wondagurl if Travis hadn’t

they did this on grammys before.

Beat switches have been a thing

Oh yea

yes he is, stylistically he has i seen lots people copying birds era visuals to this day.

Musically nah

Yeah

If it's for better or worse is for you to decide but he's for sure influential

So has autotune, it’s about the way these things are used that people pay attention to

Like???

idk tho autotune is a very nuanced thing that can be very very different. Like if someone was using Travis style autotune it'd be very clear (just as it's very clear when people use Speaker Knockers autotune style). Beat switch is just a beat switch u cant really trace it to someone