Addressing Drake, Pharrell, and the “Meltdown” verse, Scott calls Pusha T’s version of events “crazy”
Travis Scott has responded to Pusha T’s recent diss aimed at him, disputing claims that he interrupted a studio session with Pharrell and selectively withheld Drake’s verse from the producer.
The conflict came into public view with Clipse’s 2025 single “So Be It,” in which Pusha T takes direct shots at Scott amid the long-running Drake–Pusha feud. In interviews around the song’s release, Push suggested that Scott crashed a session he was having with Pharrell to play Utopia, Scott’s 2023 album, only to withhold Drake’s verse from “Meltdown,” where Drizzy takes shots at Pharrell. Push framed the move as disingenuous.
In his Rolling Stone cover story, Scott rejects that version of events. “When you go back and look at it … it’s crazy,” he says. “Niggas said I had a film crew [with me]. I’m like, ‘What?’ I remember when I pulled up, it was them niggas that had a film crew. I was like, ‘Oh, shit. Am I in a documentary?’” According to Scott, he wasn’t crashing the session because Pharrell asked him to come. “First of all, I can’t interrupt something that somebody asked me to come pull up on,” he says. As for the allegation that he deliberately didn’t play Drake’s “Meltdown” verse, Scott says it simply wasn’t finished at the time. “I can’t play something somebody didn’t even have at the time. A lot of shit [Pusha] was saying just didn’t make sense to me.”
Scott frames the flare-up as part of a broader cycle in hip-hop, where proximity to multiple worlds can invite suspicion. “I’ve always been a person who tried to put the best worlds all together,” he says. “And I just think when worlds come together, the music just sounds so ill.” While Scott has generally tried to remain neutral amid recent industry beefs, Pusha’s comments surprised him. “If you got to drop Trav name for the rollout, so be it,” Scott says.
