For the first time since Astroworld claimed the lives of ten individuals, injuring hundreds more, Travis Scott is opening up about the event, detailing his own experience both on stage and afterwards.
Currently, Scott is facing a multitude of lawsuits and could face up to $1 billion dollars in legal pursuits. But, Scott says it's not that simple and there were a multitude of reasons why it got out of hand.
Travis Scott admits he's on a rollercoaster of emotion
Sitting down with Charlamagne Tha God, Travis Scott admits that he's on a rollercoaster of emotion, and is mourning along with his fans. Following Astroworld, Scott came under fire for allegedly continuing on the show despite pleas from fans they couldn't breathe. However, Scott says that's not what happened.
In the long interview, Scott opens up about the tragedy and how it has affected him, saying, "I went through something and I feel like fans went through something and people's parents went through something. And it really hurts."
He added, "It hurts the community, it hurts the city. There's been a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of grieving, and just trying to wrap my head around it."
Scott also noted that he himself is adjusting to the news. "I’ve been on different types of emotions, an emotional roller-coaster, I mean."
Scott also noted that he had no idea the severity of what was going on in the crowd below, sharing that with the lights and pyrotechnics, it's nearly impossible to be aware of what else is going on.
"You can only help what you can see and whatever you're told, whenever they tell you to stop, you stop," he said. "I didn't know the exact details until minutes before the press conference [after my set]. And even at that moment you're like, 'Wait, what?'"
Following the event, many fans posted videos of other artists hearing the crowd calling for help as a way to refute Scott's claims he didn't know. Scott pushed back at this by saying, "It’s so crazy because I’m that artist, too — any time you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show."
He added, "You want to make sure fans get the proper attention they need. Any time I could see anything like that, I did. I stopped it a couple times to just make sure everybody was OK. And I really just go off the fans' energy as a collective — call and response. I just didn't hear that."
He also noted that he did see an ambulance but that it wasn't a huge red flag because they're often at shows for safety measures.
"People pass out, things happen at concerts, but something like that…" he said.
Scott also said that he's working towards figuring out what exactly went wrong, saying that he didn't feel like this would happen.
"People didn't show up there just to be harmful. People just showed up to have a good time and then something unfortunate happened and I think we really just got to figure out what that was," he said.
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