Tragedy struck the opening night of Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in his hometown of Houston on Friday night (November 5). According to ABC13 Houston, eight people are dead and hundreds injured after the crowd of approximately 50,000 concert attendees started flooding the NFG Stadium stage.
As Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña explained, “The crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage, and people began to panic.” The melee began around 9:15 p.m. local time, and once Scott and organizers Live Nation realized what was going on, they immediately stopped the show.
HipHopDX contributor Mark Elibert was on hand for the scene and according to his recollections, the horrors extended to all the human senses.
“There was an energy that wasn’t supposed to be there and a level of aggression in the air brought forth by dusty, weird looking people,” Elibert recalls. “People hopping gates … smoking disgusting-smelling blunts. I heard people were selling pills and I couldn’t get over how nasty those blunts smelled. I assume that means those blunts were laced with [shit.]”
As of press time, officials report 17 people were transported to the hospital — with 11 of them being in a state of cardiac arrest. Around 300 people were also estimated to have been treated on the festival grounds at a makeshift treatment facility. The names and ages of the casualties weren’t known, but Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said one of the victims was 10 years old.
Peña also said CPR had to be performed on 11 of the victims and one point, HFD had 55 units in-service for the festival.
With so much chaos in combination with the music on stage, Elibert says there was no real certainty of danger for many of the concertgoers — until it was too late.
“Honestly, when Travis got on and opened with ‘Escape Plan,’ things got out of hand,” he says. “One girl made it out and she stood like four feet away from me crying, saying she had to get out because she felt her ribs caving in. I initially thought it was normal because that usually happens at festivals but it still felt like something wasn’t right.”
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Astroworld has released an official statement expressing their sorrow and also canceling the remainder of the festival.
“Our hearts are with the Astroworld family tonight – especially those we lost and their love ones,” it reads. “We are focused on supporting local officials however we can with that in mind the festival will no longer be hold Saturday. As authorities mentioned in their press conference earlier, they are looking into the series of cardiac arrests that took place.
“If you have any relevant information on this please reach out to @houstonpolice. Thank you to our partners at the Houston Police Department, Fire Department and NRG Park for their response and support.”
HipHopDX sends our condolence to the victims’ family. Additional reporting by Trent Clark.
even though it seems most of them are rich kids, all these trap guys preach is negativity and stupidity – Travis Scott has made an entire career out of willful idiocy and these are the grim consequences of his choices. I stay far away from that wasteman vibe
Disgusting how he continued performing while people are being trampled, the videos all over Twitter
I wonder if Travis is liable it looks like he kept performing while people were being trampled to death.
F travis scott, he kept singing and the music kept playing while people 50 metres from him were dying.
People were dancing on top of the ambulances!!! this is a career ender.
No it’s not lmaooo
No holds barred when you got a Kardashian or Jenner at home to support.
There will definitely be a class action lawsuit.
this kind of thing can happen i am afraid. you are at the front of the crowd the crowd behind you is crushing you they are in hysteria. at least this wasn’t gun violence. r.i.p..
“ at least this wasn’t gun violence”……how is this any less bad dummy? Being completely honest I’d rather be shot to death than trampled to death you idiot
it is just a welcome change.
People dying in a damn stampede is a “welcome change”??? Boy you dumber than mf lmao
This one Don carry people do money richtual……
You don’t see this happening at a Justin Bieber, Coldplay or Taylor Swift concert. Oh yeah, the people attending those concerts are majority white and not black savages who ch!mpout like this.
Nice try, dolt. This is unprecedented. Plenty of Caucasians in the crowd, those are some expensive tickets, Archie
Hahahaha @ “Archie”
Not expensive for the thousands that bumrushed the gates.
500 people or whatever were shot dead at a country show in Vegas four years ago so this sucks but it happens at big shows for lots of reason mostly idiot fans
Breaking news,Reports from the ground..
“There was an energy that wasn’t supposed to be there and a level of aggression in the air brought forth by dusty, weird looking people,” Elibert recalls.
LMAOO.
Damn you was just buying a school bus for your kids. NOW the lawyers gonna pull up the brinks truck for you to load up, fool
8 wrongful death negligence suites, hundreds of personal injury negligence suits, 59,000 other civil lawsuits….man its gonna add up a 10 year old at a rap concert wtf? anyway kylie better star moving some money, no more astro worlds and no one will insure his shows again
IF a bunch of 14 year old rich kids got dosed on bathtub acid while goofy up on stage doing his act it’s no surprise this happen
Most people were injured or hurt because of the human crush. They suffocated to death in the crowd. I’ve also heard rumors now that someone was injecting multiple people, including one of the security guards with an unknown drug.
Who listens to this guy in real life outside of hipstre white people?
Me
“Stopped it immediately”??? Huh??? If yall are on his payroll just say that. There are so many videos of him looking directly at people stomping on top of the ambulance trying to get through the crowd, staring at lifeless bodies being passed through the crowd, and yelling into the mic “who told me to stop? Yall know what you came for turn the music up.” Teenage fans were performing CPR on people who were passed out, not having any idea what they were doing, not even checking pulses, for the entire hour that he continued the show after the human crush. I saw two kids climb up the camera tower to desperately plead them to stop the show. The camera man shooed them away. They were crying and screaming that people were dying. I’ve seen videos from the perspective of people who were crushed in the human wall, the video goes black and all you can hear is people screaming and wailing that it hurts, it’s like a scene from hell. People were crawling over the VIP gate to get air, saw a video where one boy dragged his confirmed dead girlfriend over the gate and tried to perform CPR. HOW did Travis and Drake not notice any of this? There’s video evidence of Travis’s team coming up on stage during the commotion to tell him something, and he waves them away and signals the music to keep going. Looking at his apology video today, I think Travis may have been on a lot of drugs and his judgment was not clear during the show, also noting that it is true thats its difficult to see the crowd due to the lights. But after seeing the video evidence from the crowd, those 8 deaths are blood on his hands all the same.
IF Travis Scott plays in public again there will be a riot. This guy is beyond done. Everyone hates him. He’s a scum bag. He got what he wanted. He’s satan he’s the big villain now. Stupid ass rich kid sellout Fck him. Fck Mike Dean too all those btches should be thrown in the pen
Know i’m late but what kinda incel description is this:
“There was an energy that wasn’t supposed to be there and a level of aggression in the air brought forth by dusty, weird looking people,” Elibert recalls. “People hopping gates … smoking disgusting-smelling blunts. I heard people were selling pills and I couldn’t get over how nasty those blunts smelled. I assume that means those blunts were laced with [shit.]”