| "4x4" | ||||
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| Single by Travis Scott | ||||
| Released | January 24, 2025 | |||
| Recorded | 2024 | |||
| Genre | Trap | |||
| Length | 3:11 | |||
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| Travis Scott singles chronology | ||||
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| "4x4" on YouTube | ||||
"4x4" is a song by American rapper and singer Travis Scott. It was released as a single through Cactus Jack and Epic Records on January 24, 2025. Scott wrote the song with producers Tay Keith and FnZ (Finatik and Zac), alongside Dougie F, with additional writing credits going to Honorable C.N.O.T.E., as the song samples the 2016 Tennessee State University marching band playing an instrumental version of the song "Say Sum" by Migos. Mike Dean mixed and mastered it, with Tommy Rush providing assistance in mixing. [1]
The song was first played through the speakers during Scott's performance at a nightclub called the Joy Room in Mexico City on September 22, 2024. [2] The song was further teased on October 18 on an episode of WWE SmackDown when WWE Superstar Roman Reigns had a file of the song in advance. [3] Scott performed it live for the first time during the final show of his Circus Maximus Tour at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand on October 30. He then performed a shortened version of it during his headlining performance at the Rolling Loud music festival on December 14. On January 6, 2025, Scott appeared in-person at WWE Raw's premiere on Netflix, in which the song's title was revealed and it was confirmed to serve as the program's opening theme. [4] He performed the song at the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship during the halftime show on January 20. [5] On the same day, he shared a link to pre-save the song and restocked new merchandise on his website, in which all the proceeds would support people who were affected by the 2025 California wildfires. [6]
The official music video for "4x4", directed by Gabriel Moses, premiered over fourteen hours after the song's release on January 24, 2025. It was filmed in Scott's hometown of Houston, Texas, and some sequences were created with black-and-white imagery. The video starts with an alternate version of the logo of Columbia Pictures, which represents Scott and the words "CACTUS" are displayed there as a reference to his record label, Cactus Jack Records. During the first sequence, a group of men is seen running on a highway with a vintage four-wheel drive car. The song then starts as Scott, who is wearing a Houston Astros cap and drinking water from a bottle, is later accompanied by footage of a section of horn players and drives the car as the men are running behind him. A girl later opens a door and dances to the song with her phone, which then sees the horn players performing in a football field surrounded by female dancers. Scott later dances with a dog in a corridor with the Texas flag shown in the background. The following sequence shows a cowboy training his cow, two girls battling in a car crash, a boy standing in a helicopter while dressed as a superhero, and Scott performing with the horn players behind him at the grandstand. He is later seen wearing wrestling belts while watching a wrestling game to represent his partnership with the WWE at the time. He later drinks some liquid from a can and joins the wrestling match, attacking the other wrestlers, and is then seen with a herd of cows at a stable. The video's last sequence shows real-life images of a herd of police cars on a highway attacking the four-wheel drive car that Scott drives, as well as a black-and-white sequence of the superhero boy standing in the dark and previous sequences of the video. Towards the end, a monkey depicted as a commentator is seen while listening to the song.
"4x4" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 dated February 8, 2025 (with 16.2 million streams, 2.9 million airplay audience, and 167,000 sold), giving Scott his fifth number-one single in the country. [7] The following week, it registered the biggest drop from number one by plummeting down to number 57, surpassing Jimin's "Like Crazy" (which had descended to 45). [8] The song spent four total weeks on the chart, tying 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj's "Trollz" as the second fastest number-one song to depart from the chart.
| Chart (2025) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA) [9] | 53 |
| Australia Hip Hop/R&B (ARIA) [10] | 8 |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [11] | 12 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [12] | 24 |
| Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100) [13] | 30 |
| France (SNEP) [14] | 75 |
| Germany (GfK) [15] | 20 |
| Global 200 ( Billboard ) [16] | 18 |
| Greece International (IFPI) [17] | 13 |
| Ireland (IRMA) [18] | 47 |
| Italy (FIMI) [19] | 54 |
| Latvia Streaming (LaIPA) [20] | 7 |
| Lithuania (AGATA) [21] | 40 |
| Luxembourg ( Billboard ) [22] | 14 |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100) [23] | 65 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [24] | 30 |
| Nicaragua Anglo Airplay (Monitor Latino) [25] | 4 |
| Nigeria (TurnTable Top 100) [26] | 74 |
| Norway (VG-lista) [27] | 35 |
| Poland (Polish Streaming Top 100) [28] | 15 |
| Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100) [29] | 18 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [30] | 97 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [31] | 10 |
| UK Singles (OCC) [32] | 23 |
| UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [33] | 5 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 [34] | 1 |
| US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [35] | 1 |
| US Rhythmic Airplay ( Billboard ) [36] | 10 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
|---|---|---|
| United States (RIAA) [37] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||