WHAT TO DO?

Mood

Production Style

The Take

Track six of the *JackBoys* compilation, 'What to Do?' is credited to Travis Scott featuring Don Toliver — a billing inversion that, in late 2019, was still novel. Don was barely a year into the Cactus Jack signing, and 'What to Do?' was the highest-profile platform Travis had given him to that point as a feature artist on a Travis-led song (rather than a Travis cameo on a Don song). The 4:10 runtime is one of the longest stretches on the 21:22 EP-length compilation, and the structure leans into the trade-off: Travis takes the opening statement, Don anchors the chorus and a melodic bridge, and the back half reads as a duet rather than a feature. Production is in the Cactus Jack family pocket of the moment — sustained-pad keyboards, half-time trap drums, a low-end mix that rumbles rather than punches, all tuned to Travis's *Astroworld* / post-*Astroworld* sonic vocabulary. The paraphrase of the lyric: a what-now meditation on a relationship that's run out of conventional moves, with both narrators describing the same partner from slightly offset perspectives. The chorus's titular question is asked rather than answered, in the same way Don's 'Heaven or Hell' or 'Company' would frame their dilemmas — a structural fingerprint that links 'What to Do?' to the album Don was about to release three months later. 'What to Do?' is also one of the clearest documents of how the Don/Travis vocal partnership was architecting itself in real time. By 2026, with five Don albums and multiple Travis collaborations behind them, the chemistry feels established; in late 2019, hearing Travis hand a *JackBoys* track's chorus to Don was a structural choice that reset expectations for both artists. The song certified RIAA Platinum on the strength of *JackBoys* Christmas-week streaming and remains one of the foundational documents of the Don-and-Travis catalog.