In his first interview since the deadly Astroworld music festival, Travis Scott tells Charlamagne Tha God he's committed to figuring out what happened.
after a crowd crush during his headlining set Nov. 5. Their conversation was posted Thursday on the radio personality’s YouTube channel.
“It’s like a sea to you,” Scott said of the crowd of 50,000 people in front of him that night. “You got lights, you got sound, you got pyro, you got your in-ears [audio monitors] ... you got your mic, you got your music, you got your band.” He said he typically relies on “fans’ energy as a collective, call and response, and I just didn’t hear that.”syndicated radio show. Scott said he heard none of the cries to stop the show and help those who had been swept up in the crush.
The only thing he was told during the set, he said, was “right after the guests get offstage, we’re going to end the show. But it wasn’t communication on why. That’s what came to my [in-ear monitors].”Houston police declared a “mass casualty event” about 30 minutes into Scott’s set when crowds surged toward the stage. The rapper performed for 40 more minutes, and said in the new interview that he didn’t know people had died until moments before a press conference.
Scott said in an Instagram video posted the next day, “I could never imagine the severity of the situation.”
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