![]() ![]() In 2019, Scott wrote “DA YOUTH DEM CONTROL THE FREQUENCY,” on an Instagram video of fans storming barricades at one of his shows. He’s even more incensed by the fact that it could have been avoided had Travis learned his lesson in the past and changed his attitude about inciting people to behave in such a reckless manner.” Reached by Rolling Stone after the Astroworld incident, an attorney for Green said that he’s ”devastated and heartbroken for the families of those who were killed and for those individuals who were severely injured. Green was left partially paralyzed by the incident. “I see you, but are you gonna do it?” Scott said from the stage. A different fan jumped from the same balcony in a widely seen video, after Scott pointed him out and encouraged him to leap off. In April 2017, a man named Kyle Green sued Scott after he attended a show at Terminal 5 in New York City, where Green claims fans pushed him off an upper-deck balcony. A judge ordered him under court supervision for a year following his guilty plea. ![]() ![]() Scott’s set lasted barely five minutes, whereupon he fled the scene and was soon apprehended by local police. “Middle finger up to security right now.” He then led the crowd in a chant of “We want rage.” (Scott often refers to his fans as “ragers.”) “Everyone in a green shirt get the f- back,” Scott said, referencing the festival’s security staff. Before the incident in Arkansas, the rapper pleaded guilty in 2015 to charges of reckless conduct, after cajoling fans at Lollapalooza to climb over barricades and onto the stage with him during his show at the Chicago festival. Scott has twice faced criminal charges related to inciting crowds into over-heated fervors. His reputation as an incendiary live performer arguably exceeds his recorded music as the main driver of his current popularity.īut that penchant for inspiring chaos onstage has led to troubling situations, long before Friday’s Astroworld crowd-stampede disaster that killed eight people and left numerous concert-goers injured in Houston. On his 2018 song “Stargazing,” the rapper reveled in his crowds’ heaving energy: ”it ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries.” Yet the 30-year-old rapper is also one of the most successful figures in contemporary hip-hop, an endorsement-friendly business mogul in the vein of Jay-Z and Puff Daddy, and one of a handful of rap artists who can headline major festivals. Scott’s talent for stirring up a young fanbase with the fury of an underground punk act has long been a part of his appeal. ![]()
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