Line #11 Music/TravisBarker


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2	[floatboxright:Related Acts:
3	* Music/Blink182
4	* Music/TheAquabats
5	* Box Car Racer
6	* +44
7	* The Transplants
8	* TRV$DJAM
9	* Goldfinger]
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11	Travis Landon Barker (born November 14, 1975) is a drummer and record producer, best-known as the drummer for the band Music/Blink182 and for his many, many collaborations with other artists (usually with a "featuring" credit), both as a drummer and producer.
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13	Initially a member of Music/TheAquabats before joining Blink as a replacement for Scott Raynor, Barker began working outside of PopPunk in the mid-2000s following the band's hiatus, having already dipped his toes into the genre as part of the RapRock band The Transplants, when he formed the rock/hip-hop supergroup Expensive Taste with Paul Wall and Skinhead Rob and collaborated with the likes of Music/TheBlackEyedPeas, [[{{Music/UGK}} Bun B]] and {{Music/TI}}.
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15	In the late 2000s, he began collaborating with DJ AM for an unusual group called TRV$DJAM, in which he played drums over AM's DJ sets, and found success in the late 2000s on {{Website/YouTube}}, where he began posting videos of himself drumming over popular songs at the time including Music/FloRida's "Low", {{Music/Rihanna}}'s "Umbrella" and Music/SouljaBoy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)".
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17	On September 19, 2008, however, things changed. Barker, DJ AM and their entourage were on a private jet back to California after a concert in South Carolina which crashed during takeoff, [[CelebritySurvivor killing everyone on board apart from the two musicians]], including Barker's assistant Chris Baker and his security guard Che Still. Barker spent more than three months in hospitals and burn centers, undergoing 16 surgeries, blood transfusions that lasted 4–8 hours and numerous skin grafts, but remarkably managed to recover enough to continue recording music before the end of the year. The crash left Barker with PTSD and a fear of flying, and he didn't take another plane for 13 years.
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19	In 2011, Barker released his debut solo album, ''Give the Drummer Some'', featuring a who's who of HipHop including Music/LilWayne, Music/SnoopDogg, Music/RickRoss, Music/PharrellWilliams, Music/BustaRhymes, Music/LilJon, [[Music/WuTangClan RZA, Raekwon]], Music/TechN9ne, Music/{{The Game\|Rapper}} and Music/LupeFiasco. In 2012, he produced ''Psycho White'', a collaborative EP with Yelawolf, and in 2016, he released ''Rawther'', a collaborative EP with Asher Roth and Nottz. In the late 2010s, this prolific collaborative tendency ramped up significantly; Barker began working with various new-school rap artists including Music/LilPeep, {{Music/XXXTENTACION}} and Music/LilNasX, and releasing collaborative albums with rap group $UICIDEBOY$, LA rapper 03 Greedo and rap-rocker Nothing.Nowhere.
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21	Having collaborated with him on his 2019 hit "I Think I'm Okay", Music/MachineGunKelly asked Barker to produce a pop-punk album for him that became ''Music/TicketsToMyDownfall'', with the success of the album sparking a revival of PopPunk in TheNewTwenties and making him an in-demand RecordProducer, with him producing albums for Music/TrippieRedd (''NEON SHARK vs PEGASUS'') and Music/AvrilLavigne (''Love Sux''), and appearing as a drummer on tracks by Creator/WillowSmith, Music/DemiLovato, Music/CharliePuth, Music/IannDior and Anuel AA.
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23	In addition to his music, Barker's also the owner + founder of the apparel brand Famous Stars and Straps, and is something of a tabloid favorite thanks to his marriages to model Shanna Moakler (with whom he starred in a reality show called ''Meet the Barkers'') and reality star [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Kourtney Kardashian]].
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25	!!Solo Discography (Barker's discography with Music/TheAquabats and Music/Blink182 are on those bands' pages):
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27	* ''Give The Drummer Some'' (2011)
28	* ''Psycho White'' (2012) (collaborative EP with Yelawolf)
29	* ''Rawther'' (2016) (collaborative EP with Asher Roth and Nottz)
30	* ''Live Fast Die Whenever'' (2019) (collaborative album with $UICIDEBOY$)
31	* ''Meet the Drummers'' (2019) (collaborative album with 03 Greedo)
32	* ''Bloodlust'' (2019) (collaborative EP with nothing.nowhere)
33	* ''Might Not Make It'' (2020) (collaborative album with [=UnoTheActivist=])
34	* ''NEON SHARK vs PEGASUS'' (2021) (collaborative album with Music/TrippieRedd)
35	* ''Survivors' Guilt: The Mixtape'' (2021) (collaborative mixtape with [=KennyHoopla=])
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38	!!Albums produced:
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40	* Fever 333 - ''Made an America'' (2018) (EP)
41	* Fever 333 - ''Strength in [=Numb333rs=]'' (2019)
42	* Music/MachineGunKelly - ''Music/TicketsToMyDownfall'' (2020)
43	* Fever 333 - ''Wrong Generation'' (2020) (EP)
44	* Jxdn - ''Tell Me About Tomorrow'' (2021)
45	* [=LilHuddy=] - ''Teenage Heartbreak'' (2021)
46	* Music/AvrilLavigne - ''Love Sux'' (2022)
47	* [=Ho99o9=] - ''Skin'' (2022)
48	* Music/MachineGunKelly - ''Mainstream Sellout'' (2022)
49	* [[{{Music/Blackbear}} Blackbear]] - ''In Loving Memory'' (2022)
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51	!!Tropes (tropes regarding Music/TheAquabats and Music/Blink182 are on those bands' pages):
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53	* TheCameo: Makes one in the music video for the Music/BlackEyedPeas' "Shut Up".
54	* CelebritySurvivor: A real-life example, both he and DJ AM were the only survivors of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Carolina_Learjet_60_crash a 2008 plane crash]].
55	* GenreRoulette: While he primarily works in PopPunk and AlternativeHipHop, he's worked with a wide variety of acts, from Music/BritneySpears to Music/MaryJBlige to {{Music/Pitbull}}.
56	* WolverinePublicity: Became this in TheNewTwenties as a result of his frequent collaborations and tabloid attention.

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