The third movement reminisces about the rappers' high school years, but now enjoys the luxury of flying out of a fixed base operator.

Writing for Rolling Stone, Christopher R. Weingarten deemed the "hard-knocking" track the "album highlight",[10] while Brendan Klinkenberg from the same magazine described it as "the apex of Scott's synthetic instincts".

[12] Roisin O'Connor of The Independent felt Drake "sounds more important on this record than he did at any point on his own recent release, Scorpion, with a ballsy, confident flow".

It later became his first number one on the issue dated December 8, 2018, after seventeen weeks in the top 10, aided in part by the Skrillex remix;[3] had Drake been credited, it would have been his 7th number-one hit.

[17] Reflecting on its commercial impact, Billboard magazine's Andrew Unterberger called the song "a three-part prog-rap odyssey that would've been unimaginable as a radio single years earlier, but which got audiences so hyped with its unexpected beat switches and back-and-forth hooks that the pop world had no choice but to meet it halfway".

The video starts off with Scott's red head on a building while a camera zooms into it, and cuts to the next scene of people getting back into some multi-colored houses.

[20] Travis Scott performed the song at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards[21] and the Super Bowl LIII halftime show.

[26] Performance Production Technical Additional songwriting credits as pertaining to the samples: "I Wanna Rock" as performed by Luke, written by Luther Campbell, Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch; and "Gimme the Loot" as performed by the Notorious B.I.G., written by Christopher Wallace, Osten Harvey, Bryan Higgins, Trevor Smith, James Jackson, Malik Taylor, Keith Elam, Christopher Martin, Kamaal Fareed, Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad, Tyrone Taylor, Fred Scruggs, Kirk Jones and Chylow Parker.