Travis Scott has broken his silence on the Astroworld tragedy with Charlamagne Tha God.
A crowd crush at the festival, which he organised, left ten fans dead, and Scott has been under immense scrutiny over how he dealt with the disaster. Additionally, the rapper is the subject of over 2,000 lawsuits from those left with injuries and the families of the ten deceased attendees.
“I’ve been on different types of emotions, an emotional rollercoaster, I mean,” he told Charlamagne. “It gets so hard because, you know, I always feel connected with my fans. I went through something and I feel like fans went through something and people’s parents went through something.
“And it really hurts. 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.”
Charlamagne then probed Travis on whether he feels like he has a sense of responsibility for what happened. He responded, “Fans come to the show to have a good experience and I have a responsibility to figure out what happened here. I have a responsibility to figure out a solution.
“And hopefully this takes a first step into us as artists, for us as artists having an insight into what is going on and the professionals to surround and figure out more intel, whether it’s tech, whether it’s more of a response, whatever the problem is and in the future move forward with concert safety and make sure it never happens again.”
Meanwhile, speaking about promoters Live Nation, Scott said, “They do their job of setting these things up so when I think we dial into what specifically happened here, even they can kind of help and figure out what happened in a sense. At the end of the day I think everyone collectively needs to figure out the bottom line solution.”
See the full interview below.
