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PIERS MORGAN: Travis Scott has repeatedly given a snarling middle finger to the safety of his fans and this deadly, predictable disaster is a direct result of his arrogant and shameful recklessness
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...’Travis Scott’s whole aesthetic is about rebellion,’ HipHopDX editor-in-chief Trent Clark told the Associated Press. ‘The shows have a lot of raging. With the death of punk rock, hip-hop has indeed adopted and patterned the new generation of mosh pits. It’s not uncommon to see a lot of crowding and raging or complete wild behavior at a Travis Scott show.’
It’s also not uncommon for this wildbehavior to have been actively encouraged by Scott himself.
Indeed, in his 2018 hit ‘Stargazing’, he rapped: ‘It ain’t a mosh pit if ain’t no injuries, I got ‘em stage divin’ out the nosebleeds.’
Such an attitude has led to him getting two misdemeanor convictions for the way he has illegally incited his fans to ignore safety protocols.
In 2015, Scott pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless conduct after urging fans to jump over safety barricades at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.
‘All my real ragers jump the barricade right now!’ Scott yelled. ‘Let’s go. Come over. I want chaos.’
...But in 2017, he once again encouraged his fans to rush the stage and bypass security at a concert at the Walmart Music Pavilion in Arkansas.
Several people were injured in that stampede, including a security guard and police officer, and Scott pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a $7,465.31 fine.
The same year, a young man was left paralyzed after Scott told a fan hanging off a balcony to jump at Terminal 5 in New York City.
‘I see you, but are you gonna do it?’ Scott shouted at him, after stopping the show and ordering the house lights to be turned on so everyone could watch. ‘They gonna catch you. Don’t be scared. Don’t be scared!’
The fan did indeed jump, safely, into the crowd but in the hysterical reaction that ensued - in video of the incident, one fan can be heard pleading ‘I don’t wanna die in here’ – another man Kyle Green was forced over the edge of the balcony, which he called ‘severely crowded.’
...Washington Post music reviewer Julian Kimble, who attended Scott’s 2018 Astroworld show said he’d witnessed the star call for his fans to openly defy safety protocols.
‘I’ve seen him tell people like ‘Don’t listen to security. Forget security. This is for y’all. This is for the fans.’ With regards to last night, that’s an example of how things can go wrong. There’s a lot of negligence across the board. I don’t think there’s one bad guy or culprit. It’s a sweeping structural failure with what happened.’
...There had been trouble, dangerous crowd surges and injuries at his previous Astroworld performances, and Scott was specifically and personally warned about potential crowd issues this time by Houston police chief Troy Finner who visited him in his trailer earlier in the day.
...when two members of his crew came on stage as the mayhem erupted, presumably to tell him what was happening, he waved them away and urged the crowd to make the ‘ground shake.’
The concert, which continued for another half an hour, ended with Scott waving to the crowd and saying: ‘I love y’all. Make it home safe. Good night!’
But eight fans never made it home.
Though his girlfriend Kylie Jenner was seen being sneaked away afterwards by a large group of security guards - to ensure SHE got out safely.
In a video of the concert that was posted online but has now been taken down, Scott can be heard saying, ‘If everybody good, put a middle finger up to the sky.’
The video shows many fans then extending their middle finger to the sky.
It also shows the ambulance in the middle of them all, dealing with dying people.
For years, Travis Scott has extended his middle finger to crowd safety and security.
On Friday night, that shamefully reckless attitude to the welfare of his own fans led to a deadly disaster.
He can pretend he’s shocked and can’t believe it happened.
But these are the weasly words of a man now facing civil and possibly criminal court action, desperate not to be blamed for crowd activity that his incendiary rhetoric for many years has encouraged.
Travis Scott has the blood of his dead fans on his extended middle finger.
Demonic.