Travis Scottis putting safety first.
In the clip, audience members can be seen sitting atop the lighting structure. Scott, 31, eventually pauses his set, and a voice can be heard saying, “We need you all to get down.”
A spokesman for Scott told PEOPLE on Wednesday, “Travis is committed to doing his part to ensure events are as safe as possible so that fans can have fun, and he encouraged fans to listen to requests from security and climb down from the lighting structures so that everyone would be able to safely enjoy last night’s performance.”
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In May, the “Sicko Mode” rapper took the stage atE11EVEN nightclub in Miami. While he delivered lower-profile performances atRichie Akiva and Darren Dzienciol’s pre-Oscars partyandBootsy Bellows' Coachella afterpartybefore then, the Miami show marked the first concert fans could buy tickets to attend since November’sAstroworld festival tragedythat left 10 dead and hundreds injured.
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Later that month, he performed his songs “Mafia” and “Lost Forever” inhis first televised performancesince the tragedy at the Billboard Music Awards.
Court filings from May revealedhow many concertgoers were allegedly injured at the festival.
Jason Itkin, Richard Mithoff and Sean Roberts, the attorneys acting as plaintiffs' liaison counsel for the victims' suits, filed the claims in Harris County, Texas,Rolling Stonereported.
According to the magazine, the attorneys said that along with the 10 deaths, there were 732 claims tied to injuries that required extensive medical treatment, 1,649 tied to less extensive treatment, and 2,540 claims for injuries where the severity is still under review, totaling over 4,900 claims for deaths and injuries at the festival.
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Rolling Stonesaid it was not made clear how the attorneys determined what merits “extensive” or “less extensive” medical attention for their clients' injuries.
During hisfirst post-Astroworld interviewlast year, Scott said he was unable to hear any screams for help when the crowd surge began, and he claimed he did stop the show several times in order to ensure his fans were safe.
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“Anytime you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show, you want to make sure fans get the proper attention they need. And anytime I could see anything like that, I did,” Scott said at the time. “I stopped it like a couple times to just make sure everybody was okay. I really just go off of the fans' energy as a collective and I just didn’t hear that.”
Scottrequested the dismissalof multiple lawsuits against him in December 2021. In the filings, the rapper and his company “generally” denied the allegations made in the suits.
source: people.com
