Travis Scott Biography 2026: Age 35, $80M & the Odyssey

Last updated: 6 November 2026 | By Nathan Cole

Travis Scott is 35 years old in November 2026, born Jacques Bermon Webster II on 30 April 1991 in Houston, Texas, and worth an estimated $80 million per Celebrity Net Worth. The biography behind that number runs from a middle-class suburb of Houston to a Pulitzer-adjacent peer group, five Billboard Hot 100 number ones, a $265 million tour, and — in 2026 — a role in a Christopher Nolan film. He is also the only rapper of his generation whose career carries a tragedy as large as his triumph: the Astroworld Festival crowd crush of November 2021, in which 10 people died.

The short version of the life: a teenager rapping as K.Dot, a dropout who talked his way into Kanye West’s GOOD Music as an in-house producer, three chart-topping albums in four years, and a brand empire — Cactus Jack Records, Nike, McDonald’s, Fortnite — that turned a rapper into a businessman whose name sells sneakers faster than records. The long version is where the biography gets interesting, because Scott’s career has been defined by reinvention after every peak: after Astroworld, after the lawsuits, after the industry wrote him off, he came back with UTOPIA and the highest-grossing solo rap tour in history.

This profile covers the whole arc — the Houston childhood, the mixtape years, the albums, the money, the tragedy and its legal aftermath, the family with Kylie Jenner, and what he is doing in 2026. Every figure is attributed to the outlet that reported it, and where sources disagree, this article says so.

Who Is Travis Scott?

Travis Scott is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer from Houston, Texas, whose psychedelic trap sound made him one of the defining hip-hop stars of the 2010s and 2020s. His full name is Jacques Bermon Webster II. He took the stage name Travis Scott from two sources: his favourite uncle, Travis, and Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi — a nod to the artist who shaped his sound more than any other.

Scott’s career has three acts. The first is the climb: mixtapes as K.Dot, a production job inside Kanye West’s GOOD Music, and a debut album, Rodeo, that announced a new kind of rap star — one who sang as much as he rapped, drenched his voice in Auto-Tune, and treated albums as worlds to step inside. The second is the peak: Astroworld, “Sicko Mode”, a Nike empire, a McDonald’s meal with his name on it, and a Fortnite concert watched by 27.7 million players. The third is the aftermath and the rebuild: the Astroworld tragedy of 2021, the legal fallout, and a comeback built on UTOPIA and the Circus Maximus Tour, the highest-grossing solo rap tour ever reported.

By the numbers, the case for his standing is plain: four studio albums, all of which reached the top three of the Billboard 200 and three of which hit number one; five Hot 100 number ones; 10 Grammy nominations; and a tour gross of $265.1 million. The Pulitzer Prize went to Kendrick Lamar, not Scott — but Scott’s influence on how rap sounds and how rap stars sell themselves is arguably larger. He turned the album rollout into a theme park, the sneaker drop into a stock market, and the concert into a spectacle other rappers now copy.

Early Life in Houston and Missouri City

Jacques Bermon Webster II was born on 30 April 1991 in Houston, Texas, the first of three children of Jacques Bermon Webster, an entrepreneur and amateur musician, and Wanda Webster, who worked for AT&T. His parents called him Jack, or Junior. The family lived in South Park, Houston, before moving to Missouri City, a middle-class suburb on the city’s southwest edge, where Scott grew up.

Music was in the house from the start. His father gave him his first instrument, a drum set, when he was three years old, and his grandfather was a jazz composer. Scott attended Elkins High School in Missouri City, where he was a quiet, studious presence rather than a class clown — the same watchful intensity that later defined his stage persona. He enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio, then dropped out to chase music full time, a decision his parents opposed.

The dropout is the hinge of the biography. Scott moved to Los Angeles with almost nothing, slept on couches, and worked his way into rooms he had no business being in. The gamble reads as reckless in hindsight only if you forget how it ended: within two years of leaving Texas, he had a major-label deal and a job inside Kanye West’s camp.

The K.Dot Years: The Graduates and the Move to LA

Scott started rapping as a teenager under the name K.Dot. At 17, he and his friend Chris Holloway released an EP as the duo The Graduates, and he followed it with full-length projects alongside Jason Eric, known as OG Chess, between 2010 and 2012. The early tapes were local, rough, and self-released — but they carried the sound he would later refine: dark, woozy, melodic, built on atmosphere as much as bars.

Los Angeles changed the trajectory. Scott met T.I., who took an early interest, and then Kanye West, who hired him as an in-house producer for GOOD Music. In 2012, Scott signed his first major-label recording contract with Epic Records, alongside a publishing deal with GOOD Music. He appeared on the GOOD Music compilation Cruel Summer that same year, and the industry began to notice the kid from Houston who could produce, write hooks, and rap — a triple threat in a scene that usually demanded one skill at a time.

The producer’s chair mattered as much as the microphone. Working inside West’s camp taught Scott how albums are built as concepts, not collections of singles — a lesson that shows up in every record he has made since, from Rodeo’s road-trip narrative to Astroworld’s theme-park world-building to UTOPIA’s dystopian sprawl.

Breakthrough: Owl Pharaoh, Days Before Rodeo and Rodeo

Scott’s first solo mixtape, Owl Pharaoh, arrived in May 2013 after delays caused by sample clearances and a growing profile — including a place in XXL Magazine’s Freshman Class of 2013. Days Before Rodeo followed in August 2014, and by then the sound was fully formed: Auto-Tuned melodies over thunderous, psychedelic production, with Scott half-singing, half-rapping about Houston, ambition and excess.

His debut studio album, Rodeo, landed in September 2015 and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200. Its breakout single, “Antidote”, became his first major hit, peaking inside the top 20 of the Hot 100. The album’s guests — Kanye West, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Young Thug — read like a list of the decade’s biggest names, and every one of them showed up because Scott was the producer-rappers wanted to work with.

One year later, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, his first chart-topper. The title nodded to his Houston roots — “the trap” — and to Quavo of Migos, whose ad-libs Scott borrowed for the title’s wordplay. Two albums in, the pattern was set: each record bigger than the last, each rollout more elaborate, each sound more unmistakably his.

Astroworld and the “Sicko Mode” Peak

Astroworld, released in August 2018, is the album that made Travis Scott a superstar. Named after the demolished Houston theme park of his childhood, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and produced “Sicko Mode”, his first Billboard Hot 100 number one — a shape-shifting, three-part track featuring Drake that spent weeks at the top and became the defining rap song of 2018. The album also carried “Stargazing” and “Yosemite”, and its rollout turned the record into an event: a giant inflatable head of Scott touring American cities, a pop-up theme park, merchandise that sold out in minutes.

The numbers behind Astroworld explain why it matters to the net worth story. It was his second consecutive number-one album, it kept him on the charts for years, and it powered the Wish You Were Here tour of 2018–2019, which grossed more than $65 million. The album’s success also made him a brand in his own right: within two years, Nike, McDonald’s and Fortnite would all pay for the association.

The Astroworld era also set up the contradiction at the centre of Scott’s career. His live shows were famous for their chaos — fans were encouraged to rage, to climb, to lose control — and that energy was the product. The same energy, at the Astroworld Festival in 2021, turned lethal.

The Money: How the M Estimate Breaks Down

Travis Scott’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $80 million by Celebrity Net Worth, inside a published range of roughly $60–100 million. Some analysts argue a lower $35–50 million midpoint is more defensible, because Scott’s private holdings have no public valuation and the Astroworld settlements were never disclosed. The full breakdown of his fortune — music, touring, brands and business — is covered in detail in Travis Scott’s net worth profile on this site. The biography’s job is to show where each stream of money came from.

The table carries a warning that matters more than any single number: tour gross is not take-home pay. The $265.1 million from Circus Maximus is ticket revenue before venue shares, promoter cuts, staging, transport, crew, insurance, management and tax. Scott’s personal share was never disclosed. The same logic applies to the brand deals — the $20 million figures Forbes attached to McDonald’s and Fortnite include merchandise revenue, not a single cheque. The $80 million estimate is a model built on public figures, not an audited balance sheet, and this article treats it as one.

Cactus Jack: The Label, Nike and the Brand Empire

In 2017, Scott founded Cactus Jack Records, his own label, and it has become the business at the centre of his empire. The label’s first compilation, JackBoys, topped the Billboard 200 in 2019; the sequel, JackBoys 2, arrived in July 2025 and also debuted at number one, featuring Don Toliver, Playboi Carti, Future and GloRilla. The roster — Don Toliver chief among them — gives Scott a second income stream that does not depend on his own voice.

The Nike partnership is the most lucrative brand deal in his portfolio. The Cactus Jack line of Air Jordan and Air Force 1 sneakers, launched in 2017, sells out on release and trades on the resale market for several times retail. Trade press has put the annual royalties in eight figures, though Nike has never confirmed a number. The sneakers turned Scott from a rapper with a shoe deal into a fashion name: his Cactus Jack designs have been worn on red carpets, in music videos and on the feet of athletes.

Then came the two deals that showed his reach beyond music. In September 2020, McDonald’s put his name on a meal — the first celebrity meal since Michael Jordan in 1992 — and Forbes reported the partnership brought in about $20 million including merchandise. In April 2020, his Fortnite concert, Astronomical, drew 27.7 million players across five shows, and Forbes put the take at about $20 million including merchandise. A Dior menswear collaboration followed in 2021. Each deal worked because Scott’s audience is young, global and willing to buy what he endorses — the exact audience brands pay a premium to reach.

UTOPIA and the 5M Circus Maximus Tour

Scott’s fourth studio album, UTOPIA, arrived in July 2023 after a four-year gap, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with about 496,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album. It was a darker, more experimental record than Astroworld — a deliberate reset after the tragedy, built with Beyoncé, Drake, The Weeknd and Playboi Carti among its guests — and it proved the audience had not left. The album’s lead single run included “Meltdown” and “FE!N”, and in January 2025, “4×4” gave him his fifth Hot 100 number one.

The Circus Maximus Tour, launched in October 2023 in support of UTOPIA, became the commercial peak of his career. By its conclusion in November 2025, Live Nation reported more than 2.2 million tickets sold across six continents, and Billboard reported a final gross of $265.1 million in July 2026 — the highest-grossing solo rap tour ever reported at the time. The North American leg alone grossed $95.7 million across 44 dates, including a single SoFi Stadium show that pulled $7.9 million from 49,000 tickets.

The Astroworld Tragedy and What Followed

On 5 November 2021, during Scott’s performance at his third annual Astroworld Festival in Houston, a crowd crush killed 10 people and injured hundreds more. Scott continued performing as the crush unfolded, a fact that drew fierce criticism and became the centre of the lawsuits that followed. He has said he did not realise the severity of what was happening in the crowd; investigators and victims’ families have disputed that account, and the question of what he knew, and when, has never been fully settled in public.

The legal aftermath stretched for years. In June 2023, a Houston grand jury declined to indict Scott on criminal charges. Most of the civil lawsuits were settled by 2024, with the terms kept private; a small number remained pending. The settlements are a genuine unknown in the net worth story: whatever Scott paid was never disclosed, and no published estimate can account for it. The festival has not returned.

The tragedy reshaped the career. Sponsors paused, the Dior collaboration was shelved, and for two years Scott’s public appearances were rare and carefully chosen. His return was built on music, not apology tours: UTOPIA, then the Circus Maximus Tour, then a film role. The biography cannot separate the triumph from the tragedy, because Scott’s career after 2021 was defined by the attempt to do exactly that — and by the fact that the audience, for the most part, let him.

Personal Life: Kylie Jenner, Stormi and Aire

Scott’s personal life has been public since 2017, when he began dating Kylie Jenner. The relationship produced two children: daughter Stormi Webster, born 1 February 2018, and son Aire Webster, born 2 February 2022. The couple were never married, and they split in late 2022, with the separation reported in early 2023. They have continued to co-parent, and both children appear regularly in the public record through their parents’ social media.

The Jenner connection mattered to the biography in two ways. It put Scott inside the most watched family on the planet, which amplified every album rollout and every brand deal. It also made his private life a tabloid staple, in a way his music never asked for. Scott has stayed mostly silent about the relationship itself, and this profile follows the public record rather than the rumours: the dates, the children, the split, and nothing beyond what the couple and their representatives have confirmed.

Away from the relationship, Scott keeps a low profile for a star of his size. He has no public social media presence to match his fame — his posts are rare, usually tied to releases — and he gives few interviews. The privacy is deliberate: the music, the sneakers and the shows are the public product; the life behind them stays behind the gate.

Travis Scott vs His Peers

Against the rappers of his generation, Scott sits in the top tier on every measure except one: he has never won a Grammy, despite 10 nominations. Drake, his most frequent collaborator and the artist he is most often compared with, has five Grammys and a fortune several times larger. Kendrick Lamar, whose net worth profile on this site puts him at about $200 million, has 27 Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize. Scott’s case for greatness rests on something else: influence. His sound — the Auto-Tuned melodies, the psychedelic production, the album-as-world concept — is the sound a generation of rappers copied.

On the money, the gap is narrower than the Grammy count suggests. Scott’s $80 million estimate is built on touring and brands as much as records, and the $265 million Circus Maximus gross is a touring figure neither Drake nor Kendrick has matched in a single tour. What Scott lacks is the catalogue depth of a 20-year career and the acting or business portfolio of a mogul. What he has, at 35, is time: UTOPIA and the tour proved the audience is still there, and the 2026 film role suggests a second act beyond music is already being built.

The Odyssey and What’s Next in 2026–2027

In 2026, Scott was cast as a bard in Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odyssey, which released in July 2026 — his most visible acting role to date, and a sign that Hollywood now sees him as more than a musician with a famous face. Britannica’s biography of Scott, updated in October 2026, lists the role alongside his music career as a defining recent credit. He also contributed a track to the film’s musical world in 2026, extending a sideline in scoring that began with his early production work.

What comes next is an open question with three plausible answers. A new album would be the simplest: JackBoys 2 showed the Cactus Jack machine is still running, and Scott has spent his career releasing in four-year cycles. A second film or scoring role would extend the Odyssey opening. Or the brand empire could grow further — the Nike line shows no sign of slowing, and the Cactus Jack label keeps producing chart-toppers in Don Toliver. At 35, with five number ones, a $265 million tour and an $80 million fortune, Scott has already had the career most rappers dream of. The biography’s next chapter will be about whether he can add a second act to it.

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Sources & Reporting

This profile was reported from the following sources, all checked in November 2026: Wikipedia for the birth date, family background, discography, chart positions and Grammy count; Britannica (updated 15 October 2026) for the career narrative and The Odyssey casting; AllMusic for the biography and album history; Celebrity Net Worth (snapshot 4 November 2026) for the $80 million estimate; Billboard and Live Nation via Pollstar for the Circus Maximus Tour gross of $265.1 million and 2.1 million tickets; Forbes for the McDonald’s and Fortnite figures of about $20 million each and the 2020 annual-earnings figure of $39.5 million; and trade reporting for the Wish You Were Here tour gross of more than $65 million. Net worth figures are estimates: Travis Scott has never disclosed his personal finances. Where sources disagree, this article publishes the range and names the outlet behind each figure. Corrections: figures are updated when new reporting emerges — contact us via the About page if you spot an error.