WondaGurl Reflects on Working with Her Day 1 Collaborator, Travis Scott
WondaGurl, whose instinct and talent led to her becoming a go-to producer for top names in music, including Travis Scott, is proof that being there from the start pays off. It’s been years since her first session with the rapper, but she’s got the mixtapes, tour merch, platinum plaques, concert passes and the receipts from Spotify’s RapCaviar Day1 Club experience to prove that she was one of the first to see the talent in Scott.
WondaGurl is the only producer who can say she’s created a beat for Travis Scott, Jay-Z, Drake, Big Sean, Bryson Tiller, Lil Uzi Vert, Rihanna, Young Thug, 2 Chainz, Mariah Carey and the late Pop Smoke — and that’s not even her entire resume. She lives up to her moniker, which she created by flipping the name of her good friend, mentor and fellow Canadian, the producer Boi-1da. What sets WondaGurl apart in the industry is her strong intuition, which she’s tapped into from the beginning to take herself from the sidelines as a spectator and fan to playing crucial role in the game. In fact, her incomparable knack for identifying major talent from the outset led her to become a go-to collaborator with Travis Scott. She’s been working with the superstar since before he was considered one, and that can be proven with Spotify’s RapCaviar Day1 Club, which uses streaming data and analytics to show who was there from the start.
she lives up to her moniker
"you could tell he was going to change the world in some way"
“I became a fan of Travis when I heard his music at Hit-Boy’s house for the first time,” says WondaGurl. “I was like, I haven’t heard anything like this in my life.” It was then, during the making of Travis Scott’s debut mixtape Owl Pharaoh, that WondaGurl saw the vision for what a collaboration with Scott would sound like, immediately sending beats to Audio Push after the sessions and getting them to Scott. He quickly took a liking to WondaGurl’s special beat-making palette and they delivered on their first track together, “Uptown” featuring A$AP Ferg. “You could tell he was going to change the world in some way,” says WondaGurl. Little did she know that she would play a major role in that. In the years following, she went on to work with Scott in various capacities, including her first Top 40 hit single with “Antidote.”
The unique thing about WondaGurl and Scott’s relationship is that they came up together in the industry, and the relics and momentos she’s gathered that signify this would make any collector of Travis Scott merch swoon. A look inside her studio reveals all access passes from Scott’s shows, a sweatshirt from his 2015 The Madness Tour with The Weeknd, a plaque commemorating over 3 million albums sold, personal photos from recording sessions and more. And if that’s not evidence enough of her day 1 status, Spotify’s RapCaviar Day1 Club has the numbers to prove it. The interface uses streaming history to identify when user’s actually caught onto their favorite artists, sharing whether or not they were in the top percentage of early adopters for the now mainstream musicians. As expected, the receipts show that WondaGurl is part of Scott’s Day1 Club.
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