“Travis Scott really unlisted his music video with James Harden?”: When H-Town rapper took down official video for ‘way back’ featuring Rockets star after poor response

James Harden and Travis Scott are the best of buddies, with the H-Town rapper namedropping his friend in several of his songs. However, one of their music videos together was unlisted after a lackluster reception.

Travis Scott has been one of hip-hop music’s most innovative, original artists over the past decade. Still aged just 30, the H-Town rapper has already released 3 extremely solid albums. His 2018 release Astroworld received universal applause, judging from its Metacritic ratings.

Travis set a record in 2020, becoming the first artist to have 3 Billboard no. 1 hits within 12 months. His musical style combines chill vibes with experimental sounds where he uses autotune on his own voice, leading to some extremely spectacular results.

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James Harden starred in the official video for ‘way back’, but Travis Scott unlisted it

Scott’s second studio album called Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight features a single called ‘way back’. The song starts off with a James Harden name drop, referring to his range thus

“I need fake ni**as to get way back
James Harden with the range on me, ni**a way back
Homie start switchin’ lanes, I thought we went way back”

The YouTube Music audio for this song has over 100,000 likes compared to only 3000 dislikes, indicating that it’s a huge hit with its listeners. A sizeable fraction of these listeners probably also happen to be basketball and NBA fans.

Travis also filmed a music video for this single, in which his bestie stars as himself. However, it seems to have been unlisted after Travis posted it to his Twitter in 2017.

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Nevertheless, the video contains some sneak peeks at a Harden with a less bushy beard than he has these days.

Travis recently also beat James Harden at softball after their respective teams clashed for an exhibition game at JH-Town weekend celebrations for the Nets superstar’s 32nd birthday celebrations.