A Chance The Rapper show held on Friday (July 21) in Hartford, Connecticut ended with at least 90 people hospitalized for “severe intoxication,” according to the Hartford Courant.
Hartford Deputy Chief Brian Foley said officers also cited 50 concert attendees for underage drinking at a Hot 93.7 Hot Jam concert, which also featured performances from PnB Rock, Kyle and ANoyd.
In two separate videos Deputy Foley posted to Twitter, it’s clear the crowd was in a celebratory mood, but evidently things got out of control. Foley said people were tailgating, partying and excessive alcohol consumption was “extremely prevalent.”
Police made several arrests and ambulances were called in to rush dozens of concertgoers to various local hospitals to receive emergency medical treatment.
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford treated at least 15 concert attendees — mainly teenagers. A 19-year-old male reportedly had a blood-alcohol content of nearly 0.5, eight times the legal limit for driving.
John Brancato, assistant director of the pediatric emergency department for the medical center, told the Courant the unidentified man was admitted to the ICU for close monitoring.
Over 21,000 people attended the sold-out concert. Lil Chano has yet to publicly respond to the situation.
Dear lawd.. I need to hit up a Chance concert. Shit must’ve been lit asf
90 people hospitalized out of 21,000 sounds like business as usual at most of the concerts that I have attended. You are blowing the situation out of proportion.
Who is?
Yo Mama!
Good one. PFFT. Aren’t Yo Mama jokes basically deceased?
His rich dad and the Mayor will take care of it!
I dont understand your hatred because he didnt crawl out of a gutter?
His life doesn’t matter. Black or not.
dindu my ASS.
I always laugh when cops talk about shit lmao. “people were tailgating, partying and excessive alcohol consumption was “extremely prevalent.”” DAMN lmfao
U wouldn’t be laughing if u were getting your skull caved in at that concert dummy
See those videos? Dayummm. Place was full of drunk r@pe bait.
People have to be that intoxicated to enjoy that crappy music.
Mayne these police be always trying to ruin shit for a nogga smh
These rappers should live a life that is worth living for people to copy plz #life is fuck if you don’t live a life that is worth living
people drinking a lot of alcohol on a party? i never heard about something like this in my entire life
Oh do you typically go the hospital after a party?
This is some bullshit, you can’t blame the rapper for the venue allowing underage drinking. The title of this article shouldn’t even mention Chance, stop setting us back.
How does it “BLAME” the rapper. It happened at a Chance The Rapper SHOW and that’s what the title says dummy.
Did they all overdose on PC, rich, reverse racist, race baiting bullshit. Or did his talentless garbage music make everyone sick? I guess I’ll read the article.
Shut the fxck up. Keep your shit political views to yourself you cornball
What happened? Did Usher’s herps fly and get stuck on their faces?
Chance lifted his arms and dropped underarm stink bombs on the whole first row.
Weirdest article I’ve ever read in my life
I tend to get drunk quicker in the hot sun than indoors. This shit will happen no matter what age.
yes i believe it involves the body dehydration by both the heat via sweating and also alcohol is antidiuretic so you drain yoursel and replace with alcohol which increase alcohol blood levels faster. not a doc jusr my clever observation
El Nedro es Todo muay infermo…comer mi laverga pinche esclavo !!!
So black People have to write about hip hop? LOL. That’s some racist shit.
Some people are just closed minded as fuck.
had this happened at a Metallica concert, (((they))) would ban all their shows. especially if the vics would be non-white. but if they white then its all kosher to the zion1st.
Low key most of those people probably just were intelligent and got out of a charge.
I don’t know what the law is like there but here you can call emergency services and they cannot charge you with underage drinking. So if they were smart as soon as the word is out that the cops are going hard you get your ass to the medical tent or whatever the case and you got a safe ticket out
If you clearly state in your story that the event was the Hot 93.7 Hot Jam Concert, why would your title say ‘Chance the Rapper Show’ when you could have easily says “A show featuring Chance the Rapper? Your title suggests responsibility when Chance is no more responsible than any of the other artists. Using his name to sensationalize the incident is false reporting and unnessarily taints the image of a rapper who has continuously stated and shown his focus is positivity and upliftment. This is not the first time your writers have done this and it makes me wonder who or what kind of people are behind this site.
Alcohol service is the responsibility of the event owners, organizers, vendors, and venue. It is not a process the artists are in any way involved in, or have any knowledge of. You owe Chance a retraction, and your readers better reporting.
LOVE this!!! Thank you!!
The only thing they owe u is a bitch slap for being triggered by an article. How come we got all these cry baby snowflake bitches everywhere now? Fick u fickboy