Travis Scott said he’s been “trying to really figure things out” in the weeks since the fatal crowd crush that took place during his performance at the Astroworld Festival in Houston last month.
Scott gave his first on-camera remarks regarding the Nov. 5 tragedy in a nearly hourlong interview with Charlamagne tha God of “The Breakfast Club” that was uploaded to YouTube on Thursday.
The Grammy-nominated rapper, who is the focus of a criminal investigation over his alleged role in the concert chaos, said he halted his Astroworld performance “a couple times.” Still, he claimed that he was mostly unable to hear audience members’ screams for help while onstage. As for the number of fans who had been hurt, he stated that he “didn’t know the exact details until minutes before [a subsequent] press conference.”
“Any time you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show,” he said. “You want to make sure fans get the proper attention they need. Any time I could see anything like that, I did. I stopped it a couple times to just make sure everybody was OK. And I really just go off the fans’ energy as a collective, call and response. I just didn’t hear that.”
Watch Travis Scott’s full interview with Charlamagne tha God below.