Travis Scott Tours a $65M Mansion, Talks Architecture, Movies, 'Utopia' Tour, & More | Cover Story

For Rolling Stone's February 2026 cover story, #travisscott tours an 18,000-square-foot brutalist mansion in Beverly Hills owned by the founder of Oakley Sunglasses that's for sale for $65,000,000. One of rap's biggest superstars talks to Senior Music Editor Jeff Ihaza about his big plans for the future, his favorite movies, how #architecture inspires him (and his goals of studying it), and a lot more.

Travis Scott on his love for architecture: "I want to go to school eventually and study engineering and architecture. It's not even about the school, it's about learning. I thought about Berkeley or maybe like Harvard? They have a good architecture school. I like spaces. I love experiences. I love things that make you come alive. Certain things are inspirations, whether it's like cars, whether it's furniture, shoes, clothes, whatever. They're all inspiration and such. They can give you a drive or wake you up to push you to go do something."

Travis Scott on where his 'Utopia' world tour felt the craziest: "South Korea was crazy. Man, that was my first time I've ever been there, period. That shit was different. Johannesburg was fire. Europe, the whole Europe...every place was next level. South Korea, I said that because it took me by surprise. I didn't expect it. It was my first time being there. Fans were just going crazy. You would have thought you was in like Manchester or something, or London or something. Even like China, India, you know...nuts. Maybe I'm just saying that now because it was the last thing or most recent. South America was insane. Just seeing different walks of lives and people that just enjoy the same thing and idolize the same thing as you and other people as far as like music and experience. I know I just named nine different places, that's why it's not fair. We all won."

Travis Scott on keeping movie theaters open: "This is what I say to Ted [Sarandos, Netflix CEO]: You can't kill theaters man. I love watching movies at the house. It's cool for people, if you can't get to the theater, get it at the crib, it's something about being able to be at the house and being in your own little comfort sh*t. But the theaters is so important, it's like concerts is so important...Going and being able to get that surround. All the people that spend so much time: sound design, even just the visual coloring, the lenses...it's so much details that goes into shooting a film. I'm not saying that the TVs are taking that experience away but the whole theatrical experience, you need that."

Read the Rolling Stone cover story here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...

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Talent — Travis Scott
Interviewer — Jeff Ihaza
Director of Social & Video — Waiss Aramesh
Shoot Director, Editor, Colorist — Mitch Saavedra
Executive Producer — Christopher Hwisu Kim
Senior Producer — Viviane Feldman
Video Director of Photography — Grant Bell
Camera operators — AJ Young, Ryan Leuning
Sound Engineer — Gray Thomas-Sowers
Production Assistant — Mykel Aguirre
UX Editor — Nicole Thompson
Creative Director — Joe Hutchinson
Executive Music Editor — Christian Hoard
Editors in Chief — Sean Woods & Shirley Halperin
CEO — Julian Holguin

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