For these of you who rocked with Travis Porter in 2010 once they signed to Jive Records, chances are you’ll bear in mind this three-man band was usually mistaken for one individual.
I used to be immediately 12 months outdated after I realized that Travis Porter was a gaggle and never only one individual. I do know…… I do know…. pic.twitter.com/R52UX6ZAjJ
— 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓈𝑒 ✨ (@_queenpatreese) October 19, 2022
Most recognized for his or her hit songs ‘Bring It Back’, ‘Ayy Ladies’ and ‘Make It Rain’, this group made a reputation for themselves by means of these membership anthems and hood classics. The group consists of stepbrothers Ali & Quez, and their longtime good friend Strap who they met at school.
Recently, Travis Porter stepped into The Shade Room backstage on the Millennium Tour in Dallas, Texas with interviewer, Taylor Bickham, to get some issues off their chest. Everything you may consider was mentioned: the origin of their identify, their ideas on not getting the flowers they deserved, their relationship with Adidas, which artist helped expose them to a distinct market of followers, the Millennium Tour and extra!
Interviewer: How yall been?
Strap: Working, busy. Tour life
Quez: We been nice. We been having fun with life. We been having enjoyable nonetheless. That’s the very best half about all of it. We been having enjoyable.
Interviewer: Lots of people need to know why Travis Porter is a singular identify and y’all are a three-person band?
Quez: We do every little thing alike
Strap: We are the identical individual. 3 Times!
Quez: It’s three of us however we the identical individual. We simply look a bit completely different
Ali: We simply don’t all have the identical girlfriend.
Interviewer: Loads of people consult with y’all because the “Original Migos” how y’all really feel about that?
Strap: I’d simply say we the unique three-man rap group. Of course they gone at all times examine the following folks that come after however we obtained our personal lane, and we at all times stayed in our personal lane
Who bear in mind Travis Porter they have been like the unique Migos lol
— the treatment (@Lederrick_) January 23, 2018
Interviewer: So, y’all are saying you all go exterior of the field?
Strap: We exterior, exterior. Look at our identify! Straight out the field. Straight out the bowl.
Interviewer: Have y’all ever damaged up?
Quez: As a gaggle we did. It wasn’t like…
Strap: It wasn’t like that
Quez: Them n—- wasn’t f—– with me. It wasn’t no sh– like that. We all was identical to “okay cool”. Let’s simply pause.
Strap: We have been simply dwelling life
Quez: It was like… if we are able to’t get to the studio. Why we nonetheless speaking in regards to the studio? We obtained new child children. You know sh– like that. So it’s type of arduous for lively dad and mom to get within the studio. Strap: All the time
Quez: To make it worthwhile. Because the way in which we make music is like day in and day trip, not like clocking in and clocking out. We would possibly sleep on this motherf—-. But , child mama would possibly obtained an issue with that two nights in a row. Asking the place the f— you been?
Interviewer: With y’all taking that pause in music, do y’all remorse it?
Quez: I don’t assume we remorse it. I really feel like that is even the enjoyable half about every little thing. This was essentially the most enjoyable half about us even being within the rap business. The grind to get to the following degree. This is enjoyable. I really feel like a problem is at all times good and for issues to not simply be simple as hell. Even although we get love in all places, the love continues to be there. But, it’s simply the place folks see you at of their minds. I really feel like that is the very best time for us. We love grinding. We love being on the street. We love placing out music. We love the ridicule and when folks say “that ain’t it” so we are able to go more durable.
Strap: We good with constructive criticism.
Travis Porter Gives Their Take On Adidas & Kayne West
Interviewer: It looks like on social media lots of people usually are not clear in your tune ‘A.D.I.D.A.S.’ Is it in regards to the model Adidas or is it the acronym “All Day I Dream About Sex”, prefer it says within the tune?
Strap: I assumed we performed it each methods. We did it each methods
Quez: Yeah, double entendre
Strap: Shoutout to the producer who made it. It was such a very good manufacturing. That’s like certainly one of our fan favourite songs.
Quez: I used to be telling her [interviewer] that. At the time we have been shifting the tradition in Atlanta. So, we had everybody in Adidas, however Adidas by no means lower us a examine.
Strap: They confirmed love.
Quez: They gave us free garments
Strap: But, everyone give us free sh—
Quez: But, guess what although? After that, in 2014, that’s when Adidas began signing rappers. That’s after I was like, “hold on.”
Strap: We have been earlier than the wave
Quez: They did Big Sean and a pair extra different n—–s and we have been like, “bro… hold on man.” We began it within the “A” and so they seemed over Travis Porter. Like at all times, you understand how that go.
y’all act like travis porter did not have an entire tune bout adidas. mf was rocking the shell toes like a mf. KOBE was carrying adidas.
— depraved witch 🤎 (@naeijuaba) October 26, 2022
Interviewer: How do y’all really feel about Adidas dropping their partnership with Kanye West?
Quez: They dropped it?
Ali: Man, I don’t prefer it.
Quez: I don’t prefer it both. I really feel like folks ought to be capable of separate the artwork from the individual. I can do it.
Interviewer: In all features? Even in conditions like, R. Kelly?
Quez: Definitely listening to R. Kelly on the crib. I’m enjoying R. Kelly within the automotive. I can inform the distinction between artist and the music. I can differentiate the 2.
Ali: You can’t drop somebody who introduced you again to life.
Quez: If they was f—– with him, they should hold f—— with him. Y’all ain’t f—— with him due to his private views? But, y’all was already f—— with him. So, y’all simply didn’t know this about him or one thing? Are the gross sales dropping? I don’t know. I simply really feel like they’re tripping.
Travis Porter Talks About Not Getting Their Flowers
Interviewer: Do you guys really feel such as you get the flowers you deserve?
Strap: It’s actually a stiff a– no.
Quez: Heisman Trophy stiff
Strap: But on the similar time, lots of people ain’t get their flowers. It don’t simply begin and finish with Travis Porter. It’s numerous n—- that don’t get their flowers, and so they them n—- kind sh—. I don’t need to be like yeah we don’t get our flowers when it’s different n—– who’ve carried out greater than what we did
Quez: And, they haven’t obtained their flowers
Strap: So we ain’t gone cry about it. We gone hold going more durable.
Interviewer: Do you’ve gotten any songs that you simply really feel like didn’t get the credit score it deserved?
Ali: Nah. I really feel just like the songs that didn’t get as a lot love folks nonetheless hearken to ‘til this present day.
Interviewer: I really feel like “Cake” didn’t get the popularity it deserved.
Quez: You proper, nevertheless it did although as a result of after we carry out it everyone realize it. But, that’s like our profession. That’s like Travis Porter profession. It’s like they realize it nevertheless it’s like have we heard it? It’s like we all know them n——. We love them n——-. But, the place they at? That’s how that tune is. It’s prefer it’s there. Everybody realize it. But, it didn’t get as a lot love as “Make It Rain” or “Bring It Back” nevertheless it was a hood traditional. Some of the sh— simply don’t go like that. Like, I may identify 100 Boosie songs that no person ever heard of however they’re a traditional to me.
Travis Porter Gives Mac Miller His Flowers For Help Putting Them On
Interviewer: Yeah, how does it make you’re feeling that folks nonetheless rock with y’all like there was no pause?
Ali: I imply.. I do know I nonetheless obtained it. I do know I’m him.
Quez: That comes with a strong basis, like Strap mentioned, how we have been introduced up and the way we began.
Ali: We are a folks individual.
Quez: We will depart the part and go to the bar. Even if we obtained a present and solely 300-500 folks pull up, we going to the bar and get pictures for everyone. It ain’t too many individuals the place we are able to’t present everyone love.
Strap: I really feel like the way in which we present our followers love we make them really feel like they know us extra in order that they admire it. They admire the music and it at all times take you again to the place you have been at. We obtained reminiscences collectively. Simple as that.
Ali: And our music crossed over, and I gotta give that to Mac Miller for placing us on his tour. It crossed us over to an entire nother world
Quez: He put us in an entire completely different realm when it got here to the music and that’s after we dropped ‘Reup’. That’s certainly one of them songs. It was a sleeper however his followers are those that took that and ran with it. You know what I’m saying? Shoutout to Mac Miller. Rest in peace to the homie.
Travis Porter Talk All Things Millennium Tour
Interviewer: Who requested y’all to affix the Millennium Tour?
Quez: Sh–, Bow Wow.
Interviewer: What was that like? How did he ask y’all?
Quez: Sh—, Facetime. He was like, “Bro. What you doing? What y’all tryna do?” I used to be like, “What the money looking like?” And, shoutout to our homie, Bart, he was pushing for us to be on this tour, too. He’s certainly one of our homies from Atlanta.
Interviewer: What does being on this tour imply to y’all and your contribution to the tradition?
Ali: It feels good. You type of overlook since you ain’t carried out in an enormous crowd like that in a very long time, and it’s identical to rattling we actually them. That’s the way it feels each time we get on the stage.
Quez: Yeah, that’s details. And, we got here out after everyone on this tour, and I really feel like we a very good addition to what’s happening. And, we obtained the very best present. We obtained the very best set.
Interviewer: On this tour, who do y’all really feel such as you have been followers of?
Quez: Pleasure P
Ali: Yeah, I’d say the identical factor
Strap: Me too
Ali: That ‘Did You Wrong’ obtained my lady again 5 instances
Quez: Like actually, I misplaced my virginity to a Pleasure P tune. So, that’s why I resonate
Strap Clear The Air On How Important Sex Is To A Relationship
Interviewer: And, my final query is for Strap, I noticed a video on Twitter and it was a podcast, and also you particularly mentioned that you simply assume intercourse is 90% of a relationship. So, inform me why you assume it’s 90% of a relationship?
Strap: That was 90% Cassamigos answering for me. Lol.
It’s clear that Travis Porter actually appreciates the love they’ve been receiving through the Millennium Tour, and followers are right here for the nostalgia their music brings.
Roommates, what Travis Porter tune is your fave?