“Astroworld” artist Travis Scott previously held his highly-anticipated Astroworld Festival in the heart of Houston, Texas where an updated total of ten people passed away due to devastating, unavoidable scenarios. Simply due to the fact that Travis was the only rapper performing at this specific event, the 30-year-old talent is now facing over 150 lawsuits from a plethora of individually affected families whose loved one was either lost or brutally injured during his concert. While Travis is known for spreading excitement and energy throughout his audience, he also knows how far to take it. The Houston artist paused the show multiple times to assist people in the crowd before things got out of control, yet there is only so much that one person can notice when trying to perform in front of 50,000+ people.
Scott’s trusted attorney Edwin F. McPherson recently sat down in an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, November 12, 2021, where he put up quite the argument for his client. McPherson stated, “He is up there trying to perform. He does not have the ability to know what is going on down below. Travis did not really understand the full effect of everything until the next morning. Truly, he did not know what was going on.” Putting more thought into his statement, it does make sense that Travis would not have any idea of the events taking place in the crowd as was focused on putting on the best possible performance for his beloved and loyal audience.
Various videos are also beginning to surface from this specific concert of Travis stopping the show a handful of times to check and send help to individual people in the audience who he saw needed assistance. Despite his efforts, families everywhere are understandably upset about the loss and injuries of their loved ones, leaving Travis as an easy target for them to seek the justice that they are itching for. Overall, the incidents that took place on the first day of the Astroworld Festival were an unfortunate and catastrophic series of events that could have occurred at any concert, throughout any genre of music, while any artist was performing.