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In his first interview since his deadly crowd surge in Texas last month, US rapper Travis Scott has said he did not realise that concertgoers were in trouble as he performed in Texas last month.
Ten concertgoers were killed after panic broke out at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on 5 November.
Multiple lawsuits numbering 300 have since been filed over the tragedy.
Among those killed during Scott’s headline set was nine-year-old Ezra Blount. Lawsuits against Scott also allege he was implicit in the deaths for not ending his show more abruptly.
“I stopped a couple of times… at the end of the day you just hear music,” he told Breakfast Club presenter Charlamagne Tha God on Thursday, December 9.
According to Scott, he did not hear details about what had happened that night until a press conference after the show.
“At that moment you’re like: ‘Wait, what?’ People pass out, things happen at concerts, but something like that,” he said.
He described how he had paused his show “to make sure everyone was OK”, but that he did not notice any fans pleading for help or any apparent danger.
At the time of the incident, there were about 50,000 people attending the festival at Houston’s NRG Park complex.
The ages of the victims range between 10 and 27.
Scott has offered to pay all funeral costs, but this has been rejected by half of the bereaved families, including the family of Blount.
Asked how he felt about what had happened and how he was coping, Scott said he was still trying to come to terms with it all.
“Nothing like this has ever happened… at the end of the day these fans are your family, so you feel like you’ve lost something,” he said, adding that he now wanted to be “the voice” of the victims.
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Rapper Travis Scott said he was not aware of any problems at his Astroworld concert last month that would have caused him to stop the show. 10 people were killed, and scores injured due to a crowd surge at the Houston show https://t.co/UVZ3Q2iwM3 pic.twitter.com/XCngzx8Ys1
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