From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

This is Eby Stokes, and this week, I am here with Travis Thompson.

Travis, you make some incredible music.

How many albums have you made now?

Oh, man, I did, I say probably like four or five.

And how old are you? I am 29. Don't say it. In rapper years, I'm like 36, dude. Oh, my goodness. But it's only been my job since I was like 24, 25. Okay, so you've got a lot. Did you, was there a certain music that you listened to when you were growing up that made you like steer towards wanting to be a rapper yeah well

I remember the first iPod I ever had like I stole an iPod at someone's backpack I paid my sins for it

I feel like I've had my car broken into enough times so like I paid money but yeah I stole an iPod and the the first

music I went over my friend's house and the first two albums I had on it where was American Idiot by

Green Day and college dropout by Kanye. Oh, okay. So, like, I feel like those two things, like, shaped exactly who I am, just like this, like, weird pop punk melodies mixed with, like, soulful rapping. And that's kind of what I've carried, like, my whole career. Man, college dropout was so good. It's, yeah, like, people talk about, like, dark twist of fantasy or graduation, but

college dropout is, like, my favorite. It's the most, like, he had so much to prove, and it's so hungry, and, like, it's so good. Yeah, yeah, college dropout is my favorite. Oh, Kanye. I know. I know. every now and then I'll go and I'll go down to Kanye rabbit hole my girlfriend is like are we listening to

Kanye right now I'm like yes we we listening to Kanye right now? I'm like, yes, we're listening to the kind right now. Context aside, we're listening to it right now. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, 100%. But then like Mac Miller and Kid Cuddy and Lil Wayne, those are also like some of my biggest impressions. a new song that you're going to share with today from Lhaze.

You say the club open till two.

Got battle serves, probably what's new?

Star of the room.

So this is like, I think L'A's biggest song, but Lhsay is someone that she's on one of my biggest

songs called Mobbin.

Okay, I'm doing pretty good as far as geniuses go.

Up a left to my death, but I'm getting cream on each coast. She's also been in the scene forever. She's someone that was in the studio with me and around us when we were first learning how to rap. You know what I'm saying? And first learning how to make music laws. She's been there from the jump. So and she she's just honestly, like, one of my favorite artists in general, like, city aside, like, she's awesome. And 2 a.m. is, like, her biggest song and it's her moment. And it's, I don't know, it feels like if she had a sound, this is kind of definitive of what it is. Cool. Let's listen to it. This is from Lhé, Open Till 2.

Open till 2.

You say the club open till 2, got battlesairs, popping what's new.

Star of the room on lies on you. Don't tell me that it's changing my move.

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