For the last couple of months, Travis Scott has slowly, but surely begun to roll out his forthcoming studio album Utopia, five years removed from his previous LP Astroworld.
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While May was a huge month for the album’s rollout, where Scott played the album privately for professional athletes and walked around with a “Utopia” labeled briefcase, it also saw the project’s presumed mixing and mastering engineer, Mike Dean, pump the brakes on fans getting ahead of themselves.
“UTOPIA WILL BE DONE WHEN TRAV AND I SAY IT’S DONE,” Dean wrote in all caps in a now-deleted tweet on May 23. “DO NOT RUSH LET US COOK.”
Turns out Dean’s urge for patience was necessary, as we are now almost a month since his tweet with no release date in sight. But, that is not to say that he and Scott are not “cooking” it up, as he asserted.
On Thursday (June 15), the dynamic duo visited Abbey Road Studios in London to continue crafting Utopia. Along with Dean posting a photo of Scott from the legendary studio, Scott was also seen crossing the street that day in a cleverly familiar way.
Joined by three members of his security team, with one gripping the now-iconic “Utopia” briefcase, Scott crossed Abbey Road just as The Beatles did for their fan-favorite 1969 eleventh studio album. A few days later (June 19), the briefcase would be passed to Dean next, as he wielded the enigmatic bag in an Instagram photo he posted.
As noted before, the release date, track list, and cover art for Utopia have still not been made official, as Scott has been pretty mum on the topic in the press. But, with declaring that the LP was in the mixing and mastering stages in mid-May, along with promising that it was “on the way,” Scott’s return truly could come any day now, as it will without a doubt be the most monumental hip-hop release of the year thus far.
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