EXCLUSIVE: Travis Scott pictured out after breaking his silence and refusing to take responsibility over Astroworld tragedy… but pregnant Kylie Jenner remains in hiding
- Travis Scott has been pictured driving to his office in Los Angeles as he broke his silence over the Astroworld tragedy last month
- The 30-year-old kept a low profile on Wednesday, after refusing to take responsibility as he faces a wave of lawsuits
- Speaking out about the November 5 tragedy that left 10 dead in Houston, Scott sat down with podcaster Charlemagne Tha God for an interview published on Thursday morning
- His on/off girlfriend Kylie Jenner has yet to make a public appearance since the tragedy and remains in hiding
Travis Scott has been pictured as the rapper finally broke his silence on Thursday morning, following the fatal stampede at his Astroworld concert last month.
Scott, 30, – who is refusing to take responsibility as he faces a wave of lawsuits – was seen driving to his office on Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, California, exclusive images obtained by DailyMail.com reveal.
His pregnant on/off girlfriend Kylie Jenner was not pictured with the star, who has remained in hiding since the tragedy and has yet to make a public appearance.
EXCLUSIVE: Travis Scott pictured out after breaking his silence and refusing to take responsibility over Astroworld tragedy… but pregnant Kylie Jenner remains in hiding
Speaking out about the November 5 tragedy that left 10 dead in Houston, Scott sat down with podcaster Charlemagne Tha God for an interview published on Thursday morning.
In the interview, Scott blamed his ‘in-ear’ person for not urging him to stop the show sooner, and claimed that he wasn’t aware of or responsible for the fatal stampede and crowd crush.
Scott said that he is ‘1000 percent’ certain he did everything he could have to prevent the tragedy, and claims he didn’t hear the screams and cries for help as the crowd went out of control.
‘Things happen, you know, and it’s just been such a time, and I’m just trying to just really figure things out,’ he said when asked why he was breaking his silence.
Out: Scott – who is refusing to take responsibility as he faces a wave of lawsuits – was seen driving to his office on Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, California
In hiding: The rapper’s pregnant on/off girlfriend Kylie Jenner is yet to make an official public appearance since the tragedy
In a fiery statement to DailyMail.com, the family of one of the victims killed at AstroWorld responded to the interview saying: ‘Every time Travis Scott opens his mouth in an effort to avoid responsibility and accountability, he further exacerbates the pain of those that lost loved ones.’
‘Because he won’t voluntarily do so, we intend to force Travis Scott to accept responsibility for his conduct, in court, in front of a jury,’ added the statement from the family of 21-year-old Axel Acosta, who perished in the stampede.
Scott struggled to contain his emotion at times as he spoke about the families that lost loved ones in the crowd stampede.
Breaking his silence: Scott sat down with podcaster Charlemagne Tha God for an interview published on Thursday morning
Speaking out: Scott said that he is ‘1000 percent’ certain he did everything he could have to prevent the tragedy
Response: Scott struggled to contain his emotion at times as he spoke about the families that lost loved ones in the crowd stampede
‘They lost their loved ones, I just always wanna be there for them, I’m gonna fix this problem and make sure this doesn’t happen in the future and be the number one voice for this. We gotta figure it out,’ he said.
Scott said that he had been ‘in a room’ processing the tragedy, but Charlemagne pressed him on photos that emerged last month showing him carousing on a golf course with Michael Jordan and actor Mark Wahlberg.
‘It was just Thanksgiving, you know, and they were there,’ the rapper explained. ‘That was more just like a personal time.’
Travis Scott has broken his silence following the fatal stampede at his AstroWorld concert last month, but is refusing to take responsibility for the disaster stampede that killed 10 as he performed
Attendees standing in close proximity during rap star Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston, Texas on November 5
Charlemagne also asked Scott whether his encouragement of ‘raging’ was to blame, referring to the concert culture similar to mosh pits.
Victim’s family slams Scott’s new interview
In a statement to DailyMail.com, attorney Tony Buzbee spoke out on behalf of the family of Axel Acosta, one of 10 killed in the AstroWorld crowd stampede.
‘I reviewed Travis Scott’s interview with great interest. Does he really want us to believe that he is a victim? Travis Scott is not a victim. Axel Acosta and the many others killed or injured are the victims,’ he said.
‘Travis Scott, his entourage, handlers, promoters, managers, hangers on and everyone else who enable him are the problem. Everything that Travis Scott has done or said since ten people died and hundreds of others were injured at his concert has been lawyer driven and calculated to shift blame from him to someone else,’ Buzbee added.
‘He now says he had an ear piece in, and was not told what was going on in the crowd. That raises the question: ‘Did he have an ear piece in his eye? Why did he purposely ignore the death and mayhem occurring literally feet from him?’ Every time Travis Scott opens his mouth in an effort to avoid responsibility and accountability, he further exacerbates the pain of those that lost loved ones.
‘Axel Acosta’s family doesn’t want to hear Travis Scott’s excuses; excuses do not assuage their grief and pain. Because he won’t voluntarily do so, we intend to force Travis Scott to accept responsibility for his conduct, in court, in front of a jury,’ the statement said.
‘Raging just the experience of having fun,’ Scott claimed, adding that raging was an inducement to ‘help others and love each other.’
‘What happened here isn’t off Travis Scott music,’ he said, adding that ‘music is healing’ and suggesting that the tragedy might inspire future lyrics.
Scott claimed that he was only told that the show was going to end after the guest, referring to Drake, came on stage.
He said he was never told why the show was ending or what was occurring in the crowd. ‘That’s what came through my ear,’ he said.
Scott blamed the media for pinning responsibility for the tragedy on him.
‘Yeah, you know, the media, they want to put it on me, but at the end of the day I don’t think it’s more so about that, it’s more so about stepping up to figure out what the problem is,’ he said. ‘Yeah, you know, I’m the face of the festival, I’m a artist, so yeah.’
Scott vowed that he was going to ‘fix this for the future people’ and ‘be the number one voice for this.’
The rapper dismissed online rumors that his music and the AstroWorld concert had ‘Satanic’ imagery or connections, insisting that he is a ‘man of God.’
‘Evil is not what we’re a part of. We’re not trying to be a part of that, we’re trying to be a part of joy,’ he said.
Asked what he would do differently in future performances, Scot said: ‘I’ll do the same thing I’ve been doing just double, you know, making sure everybody is on post, and you know double down and make sure that everyone is locked in.’
Throughout the interview, Scott returned to the theme of vowing to ensure that similar tragedies do not occur in the future.
‘I definitely wanna step in to figure out how can we fix this in the future. What can we do to change these things?’ he said.
Asked who bears ultimate responsibility for the AstroWorld disaster, Scott replied: ‘It’s crazy ’cause something tragic happened here, and what I’ve just been trying to get to the bottom of is what happened here, how it happened here, and I think the families are owned that, I feel like you know the community is owed that.’
‘I feel like we’re owed that to know just, like, what happened. And, you know, I don’t wanna speak to soon, I just want to figure out, you know, what happened, you know.’
Scott’s Astroworld Festival turned fatal on November 5 during his set when the crowd of 50,000 people surged, resulting in a panic.
Ten people were killed, ages ranging from nine to 27, and hundreds were injured; 300 people were treated at the site and 13 were hospitalized in connection with the incident.
Several lawsuits have been filed in the wake of Astroworld that name defendants as Scott, guest performer Drake, promoter Live Nation and individuals affiliated with Houston’s NRG Park and Scoremore Holdings.
Laying low: It is a rare sighting for the rapper who has remained relatively out of sight since the tragedy
Behind the wheel: Travis sat in the passenger seat and he was driven around by a friend in a Range Rover
Spotted: The rapper was pictured just as he had given his first interview on the tragedy, which was released Thursday
Scott said that he is ‘1000 percent’ certain he did everything he could have to prevent the tragedy, and claims he didn’t hear the screams and cries for help as the crowd went out of control
Scott is seen far right at a table near a golf course last month. Mark Wahlberg is seen far left speaking with Corey Gamble, who is dating Kris Jenner, the mother of Scott’s girlfriend Kylie Jenner
Actor Said Taghmaoui is seen left with Travis Scott and right with Michael Jordan during a golf outing late last month
One lawsuit alone, which was filed in mid-November, seeks $2 billion on behalf of 282 victims.
Scott denied in Wednesday’s interview that the wave of lawsuits he is facing influenced his decision to speak publicly.
‘It’s not about that,’ he said. ‘At the end of the day you’re a human being.’
Scott, 30, sat down with podcaster Charlemagne Tha God for an interview published on Thursday morning
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