Travis Scott billboards near Coachella site hint at rapper’s return with new album

5 months after a competition tragedy upended his profession, rapper Travis Scott seems to be inching again into the general public eye.

4 billboards for his long-awaited album “Utopia” have been noticed on the I-10 freeway in California, leaving cryptic clues about Scott’s subsequent transfer.

The indicators popped up over the weekend close to Indio, not removed from the place the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant will be held this weekend and subsequent. In accordance with Selection, the billboards face the wrong way of the competition grounds.

The situation is telling: Scott, 30, reportedly was supposed to hitch Kanye West’s headlining set as a visitor earlier than the guy rapper dropped out earlier this month.

The freeway billboards read “PSST…….,” “On the lookout for ‘UTOPIA’?” and “WRONG WAY!” The final signal options Scott’s Cactus Jack document label emblem.

Representatives for Scott didn’t instantly reply Monday to The Instances’ request for remark.

Scott was introduced as a headliner for Coachella in January 2020, however the competition was then postponed till this yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nonetheless, after 10 concertgoers have been left useless on the Astroworld competition in Houston, which Scott headlined in November 2021, a Change.org petition urged promoters to take away the artist from all competition lineups.

In December 2021, Scott was faraway from the Coachella lineup. This yr’s headliners embody Billie Eilish and Harry Kinds; the Weeknd and Swedish Home Mafia changed West as co-headliners.

Coachella takes over the Empire Polo Membership in Indio on April 15-17 and April 22-24.