Travis Scott will probably be one of many artists headlining a three-day music pageant in Las Vegas later this 12 months in what will probably be his first pageant look since the Astroworld tragedy.
The Day N Vegas pageant introduced its star-studded line-up on Tuesday, revealing the “Sicko Mode” rapper will headline the present on Sunday, September 4 alongside Pusha T and Child Keem.
Scott’s look at Day N Vegas marks the primary time he could have carried out at a pageant because the tragedy at his Houston festival in November 2021.
Different headliners at Day N Vegas embrace SZA and rapper J. Cole, who will carry out on Friday, September 2, and Saturday, September 3, respectively.
Day N Vegas pageant is simply quarter-hour away from the place Route 91 Harvest Pageant befell in 2017, the place no less than 60 people tragically lost their lives within the deadliest mass taking pictures in trendy US historical past.
Scott has stayed comparatively beneath the radar because the catastrophic Astroworld crowd crush, which led to 10 deaths and lots of of accidents, although he did carry out at a number of personal occasions.
The “Goosebumps” hitmaker performed a set at a private Bootsy Bellows Coachella 2022 afterparty in April after no longer being on the music festival’s official lineup. He additionally carried out at a non-public home occasion in Bel-Air earlier than that month’s Oscars.
Scott claimed he was unaware that folks within the crowd at Astroworld — the place the victims who died ranged in age from 9 to 27 years previous — have been harm or killed as he continued to carry out regardless of the gang begging him to cease.
He has only given one interview because the pageant, asserting to radio host Charlamagne Tha God in December 2021 that he “1,000 p.c” did every thing he might to assist dying viewers members and reiterating that he didn’t hear their cries from the stage.
