Travis Scott Says He Paused Astroworld Set ‘A Couple Times’ To Check On Fans + Defends ‘Raging’ In First Interview Since The Tragedy: It’s Not About Just Harm–It’s About Letting Go & Having Fun

Travis Scott Says He Paused Astroworld Set ‘A Couple Times’ To Check On Fans + Defends ‘Raging’ In First Interview Since Tragedy: It’s Not About Just Harm -It’s About Letting Go & Having Fun

Travis Scott has broken his silence on the Astroworld disaster.

Since early last month, Travis Scott has been in some very hot water following the Astroworld tragedy. During Travis Scott‘s set at the Houston-based festival, a violent crowd surge erupted–ultimately resulting in hundreds of injuries and at least 10 deaths.

Since the highly-publicized disaster, Travis Scott has been hit with a staggering number of lawsuits–which he’s currently trying to get dismissed. He has also largely remained out of the public eye due to the situation. However, that has just changed, because Travis just participated in his first interview since the Astroworld tragedy.

Earlier today (Thursday, Dec. 9th), Travis Scott‘s interview with Charlamagne Tha God debuted online. In the 51-minute video, Travis began by addressing his personal feelings on the fatal disaster:

“I’ve been on different types of emotions–an emotional rollercoaster, I mean. 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.”

The 29-year-old continued:

“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. I’ve just been in a room for a while [with] a lot of thoughts. Luckily you have people around, you can bounce around ideas. But I’ve been doing this for such a long time [and] nothing like this ever happened.”

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Charlamagne Tha God proceeded to then ask Travis about his intentions for giving the interview, and he responded:

“I don’t personally have an intention. I just feel like something happened and I feel like it’s just, I needed a way to kinda like communicate, you know? Families are grieving. There’s fans that experienced something, there’s fans that came to the show. I’ve always been that person to always see things through with the people that share experiences with me… I’ve been trying to just really figure things out.”

He also said that he wasn’t aware that there was an issue at the festival until after his set:

“It wasn’t really until minutes until the press conference until I figured out what really happened. Even after the show, you just kinda hearing things, [but] I didn’t know the exact details until minutes before the press conference. And even at that moment you’re like, ‘Wait, what?’ People pass out, things happen at concerts, but something like that…”

Travis also claimed that he actually “stopped [the show] a couple times to just make sure everybody was OK”:

“It’s so crazy because I’m that artist too–anytime you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show. You wanna make sure fans get the proper attention they need. Anytime 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 of the fans’ energy as a collective–call and response.”

He added:

“You can only help what you can see and whatever you’re told, whenever they tell you to stop, you stop.”

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Charlamagne Tha God then asked Travis if the “raging” culture he’s known for promoting at his shows played a factor in the disaster, to which he replied:

“That’s something I’ve been working on for a while is creating these experiences and showing these experiences that are happening in a safe environment. As artists, you trust professionals for when things happen that people can leave safely. And this night was just like a regular show, it felt like to me, as far as the energy. It didn’t feel like, you know… people didn’t show up there just to be harmful. People just showed up to have a good time and something unfortunate happened and we just need to figure out what that was.”

Travis Scott then defended the concept of “raging” by saying:

“‘Raging’… there’s not a textbook definition. But we’ve grown it in concerts to have a lot of fun. It’s not about just…harm. It’s not about that. It’s about letting go and having fun, help[ing] others and lov[ing] each other.”

You can watch the full interview down below:

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