Travis Scott’s “Days Before Rodeo”: 5 Songs That Laid The Foundation For “Rodeo”

Newer Travis Scott fans are in for a treat from earlier in his discography this Friday (August 23), but for the rest of us...

this isn't our first rodeo. La Flame will drop his 2014 mixtape Days Before Rodeo on digital streaming platforms for the first time this week, celebrating its tenth anniversary and teasing the inclusion of more tracks from that era's vault. All this excitement around this re-release led many die-hards to look back at the DBR days quite fondly.

The project has some of this catalog's most beloved tracks to this day, and as its title suggests, it proved crucial to the development and massive success of its successor, the 2015 studio album Rodeo . As such, we're taking a look today at just five of Travis Scott's songs on Days Before Rodeo that paved the way for what he achieved on Rodeo , although you could say that about the whole mixtape. Of course, there's a very specific and connected lineage to highlight: DBR owes much of its identity to the Houston superstar's first tape, 2013's Owl Pharaoh .

Thus, Rodeo is an even more extended development of many of those original ideas. But when it comes to rapping performances, production styles, and the psychedelic aesthetics that Travis is so renowned for today, DBR is what really started to nurture these key elements of his discography and artistry. His 2015 album sent these elements into the stratosphere of mainstream hip-hop.

But these five tracks, in no particular order, are what made them compelling in the.