Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s controversial Rolling Loud performance saw a transgender person attacked in the mosh pit while they were on stage.
The transgender woman, named Blu Linares, has now said that she believes the attack was because of her gender.
Speaking to TMZ, Linares explained what led to the violent brawl: “We were all just enjoying the concert and this group of two guys – the crowd kept bumping into each other – and they thought I was doing it on purpose but they were not having it. It felt a little homophobic at some point so I feel like that’s what drove the whole situation but one thing led to another. They gashed my eyebrow with their ring and that’s how it all started.
“I feel like it was transphobic because of the things that were said to me, accusing me of doing stuff on purpose. They were trying to get me to look like the person that aggress [sic] the whole situation but they were the ones that attacked me first for basically no reason. Just because we were bumping into each other.”
She added: “It’s a given if you’re going to a festival, of course you’re going to be bumping into people around you but for some reason they were specifically getting angry at me.”
Linares also showed off their injuries from the fight including multiple lacerations to the face and scrapes and bruises on their arms.
Video footage of Linares fighting with a man in a mosh pit during West and Ty’s performance that went viral over the weekend shows blood pouring down the 22-year-old’s face.
Linares has said that she is not looking to press charges and that police did not get involved when the fight happened anyway.
West’s Rolling Loud show was also controversial for other reasons, mainly the fact that he and his Vultures collaborator performed without microphones, making the appearance closer to a listening party.
West and Ty Dolla $ign were allegedly paid $10 million for the performance which left a lot of fans unhappy as they and the festival were expecting a conventional live performance.
I love this hahahaha, high time you learn how to punch before they wabble that jaw.
I give her credit, she got a hell of a chin. Took all of dudes hits and throws and kept coming back for more.
I will tell you 1 thing …I’ve been watching some Rollin Loud performances and most of the current acts that do these festivals just let the track play and sometimes they actually rap ..Kodak’s Dj did more rapping then he did ..it’s like they are their own hype man and only do the adlibs….If the meaning behind Vultures is to eat the scraps then this is what ya get
So someone part of a crowd was attacked and because that crowd was part of a hip hop concert it becomes hip hop news? I’m sure Cardi B found a fly in her kitchen, startled her, causing her to drop her fork on the floor too. Let’s talk about it
Tough break, b!tch. Find God.
Why they keep calling this dude “she”…America is lost 😂
Why they keep calling this dude “she”…America is lost 😂
Kanye looks like a transgender woman
She didn’t specify why it was transphobic. Just felt is not premise. Reporters twisting the narrative, probably trying to pay her to say one thing. Go to Reddit for the true story. There are accounts that she instigated some parts of this.
Of course HE is gonna say it was transphobic. But i swear some of these trannie women think it is so cute for them to deliberately come on to straight guys, to just act like assholes. They want to push buttons and then, when they piss someone off, that person is transphobic. Maybe the person u pissed off is assholephobic.