On Dec. 9, Travis Scott spoke out in his first interview since the Astroworld Festival tragedy, which killed 10 people and injured hundreds of attendees in November.
Celebrity “I have a responsibility to figure out what happened here… [and] to figure out the solution.” Travis Scott has broken his silence. On Dec.9, Scott spoke out in his first interview since the Astroworld tragedy, which killed 10 people and injured more attendees after a crowd crush got out of hand during Scott’s Nov.5 performance at the Houston festival. During a wide-ranging conversation with Charlamagne tha God, the rapper reiterated that he didn’t know people had died until after his set. “It wasn’t really until minutes until the press conference that I figured out what happened,” he said. “Even after the show, you’re just kind of hearing things, but I didn’t know the exact details. And even at that moment you’re like, ‘Wait, what?’” Scott claimed he couldn’t hear screams from the audience begging him to stop the show, as seen in viral videos from the event, which made Scott receive criticism for inaction. “It’s so crazy because I’m that artist too,” he explained. “Anytime you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show, you want to make sure fans get the proper attention they need. And anytime I could see anything like that, I did.
