GATTI

The Take

Track seven and the closer of *JackBoys*, 'GATTI' is the Pop Smoke / Travis Scott collaboration that arrived just over six weeks before Pop Smoke's death in February 2020 — a fact that, in retrospect, gave the song an outsized place inside both artists' catalogs. AXL Beats produces, in the same UK-drill-via-Brooklyn vocabulary that anchored Pop Smoke's *Meet the Woo* projects: skittering hi-hats, sub-bass slides, and the slid 808 figures that defined the Pop Smoke sound before he had the chance to push it further. Don Toliver does not appear on this track in a documented credited capacity. The track is included on the compilation he is a core member of, and on this encyclopedia's *JackBoys* page for completeness, but the lead/feature billing is Travis and Pop Smoke. As a structural closer to the seven-track compilation, 'GATTI' performs the same role 'JACKBOYS' performs as opener — a crew-identity statement that places Cactus Jack inside a wider hip-hop ecosystem (in this case Brooklyn drill rather than the Houston/ATL axis the rest of the compilation occupies). The track went RIAA Platinum and now sits as one of the more frequently-revisited Pop Smoke documents in the catalog.