The song was produced by Scott and Noah Goldstein, with additional production from Jahaan Sweet and Mike Dean.
[1][2] Scott also uses the same rapping style for that song: "A walkin' distraction / I'm naturally Black and / Unnaturally breathin' / Like a waist that is snatchin'".
Complex's Jordan Rose saw the resemblance of the song to "Black Skinhead" but deemed it one of the worst things of Utopia as he felt that the album was influenced by Kanye West too much.
[6] Tom Breihan of Stereogum also acknowledged the influence but felt that "Kanye West was always interesting", but "Travis Scott is simply not".
[9] The Weeknd performed "Circus Maximus" with an extension to his chorus in the Latin American leg for his After Hours til Dawn Tour.