{"id":59700,"date":"2023-11-15T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/15\/travis-scott-talks-about-impact-of-astroworld-tragedy-for-first-time-i-always-think-about-it\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:04:08","slug":"travis-scott-talks-about-impact-of-astroworld-tragedy-for-first-time-i-always-think-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/11\/15\/travis-scott-talks-about-impact-of-astroworld-tragedy-for-first-time-i-always-think-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Scott Talks About Impact of Astroworld Tragedy For First Time: \u2018I Always Think About\u00a0It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTravis Scott<\/a> has not really shared the personal impact of the Nov. 5, 2021 crowd crush at his Astroworld Festival in Houston that resulted in the deaths of 10 fans and injuries to hundreds more. But in a new interview with GQ<\/a><\/em> for its annual Men of the Year issue, the \u201cSkitzo\u201d MC spoke out for the first time about how the tragedy influenced his Utopia<\/em> album, as well as his ongoing struggle to come to grips with the losses on that dark day. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI mean I was just overly devastated, you know. Yeah,\u201d he told writer Chris Heath. \u201cI always think about it. Those fans were like my family.\u201d Scott also described how those feelings are reflected on Utopia<\/em>, telling the magazine, \u201cMaking music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things. That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating. And when it came to making, like even finishing the album\u2026I got back into it probably like, I don\u2019t know, months and months and months after. And the idea of just even getting back into music, working on music and just even getting into that, was therapeutic of being able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEager for fans to realize, \u201cI have pain too,\u201d Scott said the Utopia<\/em> song \u201cMy Eyes\u201d references the Astroworld deaths and that it represents \u201cthe things I deal with on a day-to-day basis and the fact of how it could be misunderstood and the struggles of life and all aspects of life. The constant weight that\u2019s put on. That you carry, you know. And just a vision through my eyes.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the song, Scott raps, \u201d\u00a0I replay them nights, and right by my side, all I see is a sea of people that ride wit\u2019 me\/ If they just knew what Scotty would do to jump off the stage and save him a child.\u201d The MC said those emotional lyrics \u201cjust came out\u201d when he was writing \u201cMy Eyes,\u201d describing it as a \u201creal moment. The song is emotional to me. It\u2019s one of my favorite songs on the album. And that verse means a lot to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for what he wants his fans to get from it, Scott said he hopes it acknowledges his pain and concerns, as well as the \u201cthings I see on a day-to-day basis I think about them. And every day I want to find change in the things, to make things better, make myself better. It\u2019s just like: I go through things like everyone else. And even recently through something like I never could imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a 19-month investigation, a Houston grand jury determined in June that Scott and the other Astroworld organizers would not face criminal charges<\/a>. The rapper, however, faced hours of questioning<\/a> in September in a civil deposition in connection with the hundreds of lawsuits that were filed against him and others; to date there are more than 1,500 active cases tied to the festival tragedy, with the first trial scheduled for May 6, 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tScott also talks to GQ<\/em> about his relationship with his daughter Stormi, his eldest of the two children he shares with his ex, Kylie Jenner, as well as how he originally conceived of Utopia<\/em> as a Broadway play. He reveals that he even met with acclaimed playwright Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play<\/em>) to see if they could figure out a way to bring a Broadway-style production \u2014 incorporating some \u201cSin City<\/em> s\u2013t. Like Frank Miller style. Like comic, but try to bring it to 3D, incorporate some high-level Fantasia<\/em>-style s\u2013t\u201d \u2014 to stadiums and arenas around the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tScott, who became obsessed with studying to become a nephrologist (a kidney doctor) as a child, also said he plans to go back to college soon and study architecture at Harvard. He\u2019s already made a few visits to the storied Boston university and looked into the admissions process. \u201cI got to work hard to get in. They\u2019re not letting me take any shortcuts,\u201d he said, suggesting that the hard right turn might come after he wraps his Circus Maximum world tour. And, don\u2019t worry, even though he plans to do the full four-year course, he promised, \u201cI\u2019m still going to make music, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Travis Scott has not really shared the personal impact of the Nov. 5, 2021 crowd crush at his Astroworld Festival in Houston that resulted in the deaths of 10 fans and injuries to hundreds more. But in a new interview with GQ for its annual Men of the Year issue, the \u201cSkitzo\u201d MC spoke out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}