The one production gadget that really matched and complemented his performance was the bank of vents that blew sudden blasts of smoke up from both stages. He tore through six songs in about 15 minutes on the small stage, starting with 'Stargazing' and 'Carousel' - also the two opening tracks on 'Astroworld' - and culminating with one of his 2014 breakout cuts, 'Mamacita.' That patient lull quickly gave way to a hyperactive pace once Scott came out. This set off a rampage of young concertgoers running across the general-admission arena floor, after they had stood for a couple of hours pressed up tightly against the main stage and waited out a long gap left by the absence of one of three scheduled openers, Trippie Redd. Scott first appeared on the smaller B-stage at the back end of the arena. The 80-minute set started with a sleight of hand. In between, he blew up a giant inflatable astronaut and danced under an arcade's worth of lasers and lights. He rode a roller-coaster over the heads of the 15,000 fans during a couple of songs near the end. Scott, 26, strapped into a Super Loop-type ride and rolled upside down at the beginning of the show. The staging was based on his third album, 'Astroworld,' nominated for three Grammys a day earlier and named after the now-defunct, Texas-sized, Six Flags theme park in his hometown of Houston. (He also brought his wife Kylie Jenner and their infant daughter, setting off a minor tsunami on social media.) Cole and Jay-Z - all reaching for a bar set by his fellow Kardashian-in-law Kanye West's hi-fi tours - Scott literally brought an amusement park's array of bells, whistles, stunts and tricks to Minneapolis. Saturday's sold-out Travis Scott concert was one of the genre's farthest-reaching visual productions yet.įollowing on the pyro-singed heels of Drake, J. Rap concerts sure have come a long way from the days when the most exciting thing to look at was Snoop Dogg's uncle twirling a towel in the back corner of the stage.

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