It’s a sweeping structural failure with what happened.” I don’t think there’s one bad guy or culprit. There’s a lot of negligence across the board. “With regards to last night, that’s an example of how things can go wrong. “I’ve seen him tell people like ‘Don’t listen to security. He called the rapper one of the most electrifying performers he’s seen. “In terms of energy, he wants the energy he’s giving out on stage to be reciprocated from the audience, almost in defiance,” said Julian Kimble, who wrote a concert review on Scott’s 2018 Astroworld performance for the Washington Post. In a separate incident, he was sentenced to one year of court supervision after pleading guilty to reckless conduct charges stemming from a 2015 incident in Chicago at the Lollapalooza music festival.Īt the time, Chicago officials said Scott encouraged fans to vault security barricades. In 2017, Scott was arrested after he encouraged fans to bypass security and rush the stage, leaving a security guard, a police officer and several other injured during a concert in Arkansas. In 2015, a collision of two crowds at the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia caused more than 2,400 deaths, based on an Associated Press count of media reports and officials’ comments.īut with Scott getting into trouble before for the two past shows, Shachtman thinks the rapper will get a “hard second look.” At a soccer stadium in England, a human crush in 1989 led to nearly 100 deaths. No matter where the investigation ultimately leads, tragedies like the one at the Astroworld Festival have been happening for a long time.In 1979, 11 people died in a scramble to enter a Cincinnati, Ohio, concert by The Who. In a tweet posted Saturday, Scott said he was “absolutely devastated by what took place last night.” He pledged to work “together with the Houston community to heal and support the families in need.” “That makes for some really fun shows and made for a couple of scary incidents.” “Travis Scott is legendary in the hip-hop community for his beyond high-energy performances, where he really tries to rile up the crowd,” said Noah Shachtman, editor-in-chief at Rolling Stone. The Houston-born musician founded his festival in 2018 on the heels of his chart-topping album “Astroworld,” which was led by the infectious song “Sicko Mode.” He also has a 3-year-old daughter with Kylie Jenner, who announced in September that she is pregnant with their second child. Scott is an eight-time Grammy-nominated rapper who is music’s biggest young stars. It’s not uncommon to see a lot of crowding and raging or complete wild behavior at a Travis Scott show.” With the death of punk rock, hip-hop has indeed adopted and patterned the new generation of mosh pits. “Travis Scott’s whole aesthetic is about rebellion,” said HipHopDX editor-in-chief Trent Clark, who has attended several of his performances. He’s often encouraged fans to bypass security and rush the stage, but none of those previous situations resulted in fatalities. People in the crowd reported lots of pushing and shoving during the performances leading up to Scott’s set - which is normal at his shows. A sizable group of the 50,000 in attendance pushed toward the stage at NRG Park as a timer clicked down to start the performance before the chaotic scene began to ignite. Unfortunately, the Grammy-nominated rapper’s energetic show this time turned deadly after at least eight people - between the ages of 14 and 27 - were killed duringa crowd surgeat his music festival in Houston on Friday evening. Welcome to Scott’s Astroworld Festival – where concertgoers can become their rebellious selves.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Travis Scott’s high-energy performances are known for being chaotic and fun-filled shows with concertgoers encouraged to take part in a raucous nature involving mosh pits, crowd surfing and stage diving. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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