Travis Scott says one Kid Cudi song changed how he saw his future

Travis Scott has said that Kid Cudi’s track Soundtrack 2 My Life was the moment he truly believed a future in rap might be possible for him.

The 34 year old artist has long spoken openly about his admiration for the Pursuit of Happiness musician, and he has now singled out the song from Cudi’s 2009 album Man on the Moon: The End of Day as especially influential.

Reflecting on that period, he told Rolling Stone magazine: "It’s just the soundtrack to my life. From 0:00 to the end of the song, I felt like we were brothers or something. We live like the same life.

"I think that s*** came out in ’09 and I was a senior in high school. I was like, ‘You know what, I could probably make it.’

"People gotta understand, Cudi came out and was moving albums and s***. To me, I was like, ‘Wow, people are really resonating with this.' ”

He also shared memories of one of the earliest shows he ever attended, recalling Kid Cudi, then 42, performing as the headliner with Asher Roth supporting.

Describing the night, he said: "He had the LED screen and it was this black-and-white thing and the shadow and he walked out of the LED screen.

“I remember looking around like people are really receptive to this guy’s story. I was like, ‘Okay, people will hopefully understand the story I got to tell.' ”

The SICKO MODE artist, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster II, later adopted the Scott portion of his stage name from Kid Cudi’s own name, Scott Mescudi.

Their first musical collaboration arrived in 2016 with Thru The Late Night, which appeared on Travis’s album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight.

They have continued to work together since, teaming up on songs including THE SCOTTS, LOOOVE, Baptized in Fire, Get Off Me and At The Party.

In 2019, Travis also spoke in more detail about why Cudi’s work resonated with him so deeply.

At the time, he told Playboy's Spring 2019 #TheSpeechIssue: "One of my idols is Kid Cudi and the way he tells his stories about how he felt as a kid growing up, like where he's from.

"I related to that. I adopted my own form of storytelling - whether it's through melodies or through raps or both."