Travis Scott’s New Album Is Officially Coming: 6 Reveals From His Variety Cover Story

The Travis Scott new album is officially on the way: the rapper confirmed his sixth studio LP — his first since 2023’s Utopia — is actively in the works, in a Variety cover interview published July 22, 2026. The wide-ranging profile pairs the album news with the biggest business move of his career: a first-look film and TV deal for his Cactus Jack company at Paramount Pictures.

This week's cover story:

Travis Scott's Hollywood Odyssey: The Rapper on Acting for Christopher Nolan, His New Paramount Deal and Never Winning a Grammyhttps://t.co/AU0DStex8u pic.twitter.com/0zwPrFC0At

— Variety (@Variety) July 22, 2026

Key facts

• What: Travis Scott’s new album (sixth studio LP), plus a Paramount first-look deal for Cactus Jack
• When: Revealed in Variety, July 22, 2026; album undated and untitled
• Follows: Utopia (2023), his first No. 1 and a double-platinum record
• Also covered: His acting role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and his 10 Grammy nominations with zero wins

What is on the Travis Scott new album?

Scott told Variety he is deep into the follow-up to Utopia, calling the work “fucking amazing” and saying he is “constantly pushing myself to push the sonics to try to make something that I haven’t made before.” He is carrying the in-progress tracks on an iPod — the same device fans spotted clipped to his waistband at a recent World Cup match in Houston, which he attended with his children Stormi, 8, and Aire, 4.

He would not reveal a title, a release date or the direction of the sound, but he did open up his listening. The album is drawing on an unusually wide set of influences for a rapper, from vintage funk to British rock. Scott name-checked Parliament, Oasis, Van Halen — praising the latter’s “mega-choruses and hard bass lines” — plus Don Toliver, Raphael Saadiq and Daft Punk.

What Travis Scott revealed about the album	Detail
Album number	Sixth studio album, first since Utopia (2023)
Status	In progress; tracks carried on an iPod
Stated influences	Parliament, Oasis, Van Halen, Don Toliver, Raphael Saadiq, Daft Punk
Creative goal	“Make something that I haven’t made before”
Live vision	Music built to reach “the person all the way back in the bowl”; a more theatrical show

The stadium era is shaping the record directly. After a two-and-a-half-year “Circus Maximus Tour” that sold 2.2 million tickets and grossed $265 million, Scott said he is “trying to make something that can reach the person that’s all the way back in the bowl” — and to “elevate the show to a more theater aspect.” He teased that Utopia “was supposed to be a play,” adding, “I want to try to bring back true experiences before they try to take them all down and make everything digital.”

What is Travis Scott’s Paramount deal?

Scott has signed a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures through Cactus Jack, giving him freedom to develop film, TV, theater and experiential projects across the studio. It formalizes a partnership that already produced fast-selling SpongeBob SquarePants and Scream apparel drops, and it slots into Paramount’s push to pull younger audiences back into theaters.

“I want to bring back amazing films, pictures and just creative good ideas. And [Paramount’s] not scared to make good ideas,” Scott told Variety. Paramount Pictures co-chair Josh Greenstein framed the appeal in cultural terms: “His taste level moves culture. How many people can you say that about? Everything he touches becomes culture, and that’s a superpower.” Paramount teased the relationship in a Tom Cruise-narrated reel at CinemaCon earlier in 2026.

For Scott, film and music were never separate lanes. “I was spending so much on music videos that they were like independent film budgets, and I wanted to figure out how we could make better use of that,” he said. He has no announced slate yet, but floated a passion for slow-burn “dark thrillers,” a possible remake of the 1979 cult classic The Warriors, and even an Entourage-style biopic about himself.

How big has the Cactus Jack empire become?

Founded in 2017 as a record label and publishing company, Cactus Jack has grown into a full commercial ecosystem around Scott. Its roster includes rappers Sheck Wes and Don Toliver, and its consumer-products arm has collaborated with Nike and Jordan, Fortnite, Saint Laurent, Dior, Audemars Piguet, Hot Wheels, Reese’s Puffs and McDonald’s.

The reach is now academic: this fall, the University of Southern California launches a course studying the creative ecosystem around Scott and Cactus Jack. All 140 slots were claimed in roughly 20 minutes — about the pace of one of his product drops. “Everything he touches becomes culture,” as Greenstein put it, and the USC course is built to unpack exactly how one artist turns talent into a platform.

What about The Odyssey and the Grammys?

The album news arrives alongside Scott’s most serious acting turn: a speaking role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, in which he recites the Song of Odysseus atop a table before a cast including Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. “I was nervous as fuck,” he admitted. He also co-wrote the film’s end-credits song, “When I’m Home,” which could land him in the Oscars’ best original song race.

That would be a first, given his record with the Recording Academy. Scott is a 10-time Grammy nominee who has never won. “I still need a Grammy, but I would love to take home an Oscar. That’d be cool,” he told Variety, adding of the trophy that has eluded him: “It’s not why I do what I do… To me, the award represents something, and to achieve that would be amazing.” For more on the artist, see the TSNVWRLD Travis Scott hub.

What’s next?

No title, tracklist or release date for the new album has been confirmed — Scott is keeping the sound under wraps. The near-term markers to watch are The Odyssey‘s theatrical run and its awards campaign, the first projects to emerge from the Paramount deal, and any official rollout for the sixth album. Everything beyond the confirmed “in progress” status remains unannounced.