PUBLIC ENEMY (CHUCK D): " Travis Scott is a performer, an act, not a concert promoter. He doesn’t run the sound or venues or festivals or their staff. He doesn’t build stages or coordinate logistics, he’s not an expert in crowd control or security or emergency medical services. But he does trust Live Nation and all the other concert promoters who are supposed to do all of this."

 

CHUCK D, vocalist of Rap legends PUBLIC ENEMY has commented on the ASTROWORLD tragedy (Houston, Texas) blaming promoters LIE NATION instead of headliner rapper TRAVIS SCOTT.

 

FROM LA TIMES: 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-11-06/travis-scott-astroworld-festival-seating?fbclid=IwAR0KjNzauEByyzYkqsQBblYrbIyxOjpRk8TUA2LETknz5WhQTbzN7mWyiIQ 

Eight people are dead, and hundreds are injured after a CROWD SURGE happened during rapper TRAVIS SCOTT'S set 11/5/2021 at the ASTROWORLD festival in Houston, Texas. 

Graphic footage of unconscious festival attendees along with hundreds crashing the gate posed a tragic scenario for understaffed ASTROWORLD security. 

Friday night at  ASTROWORLD drew over 50, 000 people as the second night of the festival is cancelled.

 TRAVIS SCOTT' had been previously charged with reckless behavior as in 2015 he was charged with disordely conduct after urging fans to jump over barricades at LOLLAPALOOZA in Chicago, Illinois. 

In May 2017,  TRAVIS SCOTT urged fans to join him onstage in Fayetteville, Arkansas injuring a cop and security guard in the ensuing rush. 

In 2017, a 23 year old man was paralyzed after he was pushed off a balcony after TRAVIS SCOTT urged the fans to jumps  and then invited the injured fan onstage. A lawsuit regarding the 2017 Terminal, New York City show is pending. 

TRAVIS SCOTT and LIVE NATION are the producers/promoters of ASTROWORLD RAP FESTIVAL.

 

 

 

 

FROM CHUCK D (PUBLIC ENEMY): 

 

I cannot believe we’re at the point where I gotta say this out loud: Travis Scott is a performer, an act, not a concert promoter. He doesn’t run the sound or venues or festivals or their staff. He doesn’t build stages or coordinate logistics, he’s not an expert in crowd control or security or emergency medical services. But he does trust Live Nation and all the other concert promoters who are supposed to do all of this. And yet here we are, 10 deaths and counting. 10 broken families.

The world is mourning.

I’m tired of these corporations shucking their most crucial responsibility. These folks simply say Rest In Peace and move on. This negligence can’t continue. Folks want answers. I’m not buying the Young Black Man did it. He’s being blamed for a crime while the old white men running the corps that Travis and his fans trusted with their lives stay quiet in the shadows, counting their money and watching their stock prices go up and up. The excuse of Scott’s irresponsible actions don’t wash - if his act had a history of that behavior why promote him to bigger venues, why partner with him in the first place and let him headline a bigger audience? Live Nation controlled this show. They control almost all of the concert venues. Artists ain’t speaking out because these same cats are already bought by these corporations. No one can say a word against them unless they want to be Blacklisted and hurt their careers.

So I am calling on Michael Rapino’s entire team at Live Nation and a consortium of all the major concert promoters out there to do the right thing. To step up and step out of the shadows to fix these situations and save lives. To stop letting one Young Black Man take the blame, the hate, the fall. We don’t know everything that happened or exactly what failed. But concert promoters have all the power to make the changes to keep everyone safe and alive.

Live Nation, your stock is up. The White Corporate Music Biz keeps cashing in on Black Pain, Trauma and Death. This has to stop yesterday. You’re part of the problem. Grow the fuck up, fix this and let us all LIVE in PEACE.

-Chuck D

 

 

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