Jenelle Evans and her family luckily avoided a potentially very scary situation on Tuesday afternoon.
31.07.2023 - 21:43 / justjared.com
Travis Scott and his team are facing some sharp criticism.
The 32-year-old music superstar is being put on blast by the lawyer for the family of the 10-year-old boy who died in the crowd surge during his 2021 set at Astroworld, calling out Travis‘ team for accusing cops of trying to sabotage his new album with the release of their findings.
Bob Hilliard, the lawyer representing the family of the late Ezra Blount, spoke out via TMZ: “For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone-deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many.”
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If you didn’t know, one of Travis‘ attorneys said the release of the Houston Police Department’s 1,266-page investigation was intentionally timed to hurt Utopia, which his reps later doubled down on.
“Of course they would only focus on how the report’s release date hurts their album sales instead of the facts contained inside of the report,” the attorney added in his statement.
“For Mr. Scott to allow his lawyers and spokespeople to make the reckless and untrue statement that just because he was not indicted means he’s blame-free is arrogant and insulting to the memory of 10-year-old Ezra as well as the other victims of this terrible night.”
The rapper appeared to shade a celebrity who is dating his ex on his new album.
Jenelle Evans and her family luckily avoided a potentially very scary situation on Tuesday afternoon.
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Brad Pitt and Travis Scott have a real French connection.It turns out the «Sicko Mode» rapper recorded his latest album,, at the 59-year-old's famed Miraval Studios, which is ensconced within Pitt's 2,200-acre Château Miraval in the South of France. The Instagram account Legends Inc.
Travis Scott has broken records with his fourth studio album ‘UTOPIA’, which is now deemed the biggest hip-hop release of the year so far.On July 28, the Houston-born rapper dropped his highly-anticipated album, featuring Beyoncé, Teezo Touchdown, Drake and more on the star-studded 19-track album. It was the follow-up to the ‘Antidote’ rapper’s Grammy Award-nominated third album ‘Astroworld’.‘UTOPIA’ has broken many records since it dropped.
Travis Scott's recent live show in Rome resulted in 60 people requiring medical attention and sparked fears of an earthquake, CNN reports. The rapper was in Italy on August 7 for a concert to promote his new studio album UTOPIA. The event, held at Circus Maximus, an ancient chariot-racing stadium, was initially supposed to take place at the pyramids of Giza in Egypt but was canceled due to “complex production issues.” Rome’s civil protection department told CNN that one attendee at the show sprayed pepper spray into the crowd, injuring the group of 60 people in the process.
Travis Scott‘s recent ‘Utopia’ concert.Speaking to CNN following the concert, a representative for Russo revealed that Rome citizens were concerned of an earthquake after they felt the ground shaking from the Travis Scott concert. The Italian fire department also confirmed to CNN that it received “hundreds of calls” over the same concerns.Now, Russo is campaigning to stop concerts from happening at the Circus Maximus over safety concerns for the public as well as the preservation of the venue.
Travis Scott has announced a run of North American shows for later this year.The ‘Utopia Tour Presents Circus Maximus’ tour kicks off in Chicago on September 25 and includes shows in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville, and DC before finishing in Miami on November 27.Notably, this is Scott’s first tour since the Astroworld tragedy, in which 10 people died and hundreds more were injured following a crowd crush at the festival in November 2021.Last month, it was revealed that a grand jury in Texas had decided that Scott would not face charges over the incident, and a full report has now been filed.Tickets will go on sale on August 11 at 10am – you can see the full list of dates below and buy your tickets here.SEPTEMBER25 – Chicago, IL, United Center27 – Detroit, MI, Little Caesars Arena29 – East Rutherford, NJ, MetLife StadiumOCTOBER1 – Boston, MA, TD Garden4 – Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Center5 – Washington, DC, Capital One Arena8 – Atlanta, GA, State Farm Arena11 – Charlotte, NC, Spectrum Center12 – Raleigh, NC, PNC Arena14 – Orlando, FL, Amway Center17 – Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center19 – Houston, TX, Toyota Center21 – Oklahoma City, OK, Paycom Center23 – Denver, CO, Ball Arena26 – Phoenix, AZ, Footprint Center28 – Las Vegas, NV, MGM Grand Garden Arena30 – Oakland, CA, Oakland ArenaNOVEMBER 4 – Inglewood, CA, SoFi Stadium7 – Seattle, WA, Climate Pledge Arena9 – Vancouver, BC, CA, Rogers Arena12 – Portland, OR, Moda Center18 – Austin, TX, Moody Center ATX24 – Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena27 – Miami, FL, Kaseya CenterMeanwhile, Scott’s new album ‘Utopia’ has become the second-most streamed album of 2023, less than two weeks after it was released.The rapper’s first album since 2018 has been streamed
Kanye West joined Travis Scott in Rome, Italy, marking Ye's first live public performance since he made antisemitic remarks at the end of 2022.«Only one human being on this motherf**king planet that has ever walked side by side with me through anything and every motherf**king thing,» Travis told the audience at his tour stop before bringing Kanye on stage, as heard in a video obtained by .The duo pivoted from Travis’s new album, Utopia’s, track list to perform «Praise God,» a song that featured Travis from Kanye's 2021 album, Donda, and «Can’t Tell Me Nothing,» from Kanye's 2007 album, Graduation.A post shared by Complex Music (@complexmusic)«There is no Utopia without Kanye West. There is no Travis Scott without Kanye West.
Kanye West made a surprise appearance at Travis Scott‘s concert in Rome.
A Houston-based news organisation has revealed that a deal between Travis Scott and Apple regarding the livestreaming of his 2021 Astroworld performance required the rapper to complete his set in order to receive a $4.5 million fee. That has led to some discussion about whether or not that agreement put pressure on the rapper’s team to keep his Astroworld set going despite the crowd surge that occurred in the audience which resulted in ten fatalities.The recent publication of the Houston Police Department’s report into the Astroworld tragedy has put a new focus on the big question as to why Scott’s set continued for some time after the scale of the problems within the crowd had become apparent to emergency services.
14-year-old Astroworld concert victim John Hilgert have quietly reached a settlement with rapper Travis Scott, Live Nation, ScoreMore and other festival organizers, Rolling Stone reported. The family is said to have withdrawn a $1 million lawsuit back in February, settling for an undisclosed amount.High school freshman Hilgert was the second youngest of 10 victims to die after chaos broke out causing a crush at the opening night of the music festival in Houston Nov.
Police have issued a missing persons appeal to help track down two Tameside teenagers who were last seen more than two weeks ago.
Travis Scott and his legal team have been dubbed “stunningly tone deaf” for criticising the timing of the publication of a police report about the Astroworld tragedy. The Houston Police Department made that lengthy document available on Friday, just as Scott released his new album ‘Utopia’, his first since the fatal crowd surge that occurred during his headline set at the 2021 edition of the festival he founded.On Friday, a representative for Scott told TMZ: “The timing of the Houston Police Department report’s release, coinciding with the launch of Travis Scott’s highly anticipated album, is anything but coincidental … it is outrageous that HPD has chosen to resort to tactics that attempt to discredit Travis and his team, casting doubt on how the unfortunate events at Astroworld actually transpired while deflecting blame from their own critical failures”.Responding to those remarks, a lawyer working for the family of one of those who died during the crowd surge, ten year old Ezra Blount, said in his own statement to TMZ: “For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many”.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured during the crowd surge at Astroworld 2021, which took place in Houston’s NRG Park.
Travis Scott released his new album, Utopia, on Friday — the same day that the Houston Police Department issued its 1,266-page report on the Astroworld Festival tragedy, in which 10 people were killed and more than a dozen hospitalized as the crowd surged forward during Scott’s performance at Houston’s NRG Stadium in November 2021.
Travis Scott enjoys a sunny day walking around New York City with his friends on Friday (July 28).
Travis Scott‘s Astroworld festival in 2021.During a performance on November 5 2021, thousands were left injured when the over-capacity crowd surged towards the front of the stage during Scott’s headline performance.10 people were killed by compressive asphyxiation during the show — with victims aged between age nine and 27.Last month, it was revealed that a grand jury in Texas had decided that Scott would not face charges over the incident, and a full report has now been filed.The 1,266-page report can be read in full here. It features eyewitness accounts from festival attendees, Astroworld organisers, police officers and more.Scott’s lawyer Kent Schaffer said that the decision to not indict Scott had come as “a great relief” to his client (via BBC).Schaffer confirmed in a statement that the jury had met, but chose not to indict his client.
A report by the Houston Police Department on the 2021 Astroworld concert crush that caused the death of 10 people and injuries to hundreds was issued today. It indicates that at least one security person tried to get the show to stop before its tragic end.
Thania Garcia Travis Scott’s long-awaited “Utopia” album has arrived, and out of all 19 songs on the set, only a small handful saw the Houston-born rapper flying solo. In total, “Utopia” features over 18 artists — and that’s not including the indomitable list of producers and songwriters that offered their hand on the album.
Travis Scott is seemingly rapping about in his new song, «Meltdown.»The 32-year-old rapper released the new song on Friday, spitting the lyrics, «Chocolate AP and chocolate the Vs got the Willy Wonka factory/ Burn an athlete like it's calories/ find another flame hot as me, b**ch!!!»AP is short for Audemars Piguet, a luxury watch brand favored by rappers. Fans think that this is a clear reference to Kylie Jenner's rumored new romance with actor Timothée Chalamet.
Travis Scott’s debut full-length “Rodeo” polished the sound of his early mixtapes, “Utopia” rejuvenates Travis Scott’s discography. Years in the making, the album expands his sound without drastically changing it — he’s still using his MPC and his vocals are just as distorted as they were ten years ago — but now the stakes are exponentially higher.