Travis Scott concerts are known for being raucous and rowdy.
Footage from the day of his performance showed a throng of fans shoving their way through a VIP entrance, destroying it in the process.
At least eight people were killed and 300 were injured during Scott’s Houston set last week as the crowd of about 50,000 surged toward the stage.
Scott, whose real name is Jacques Webster, said in a video statement he was “honestly just devastated” and that he stopped the show briefly when he noticed an audience member needed help and again when he saw an ambulance.
Scott’s past concerts resulted in some injuries to fans and officials there for security and two arrests for the rapper.
Scott has been arrested at least twice for incidents at his concerts.
“The performer played one song and then began telling fans to come over the barricades,” Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management said in a statement to WLS at the time.
Two of the charges were dismissed in 2018, but Scott pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid over $6,800 to two people who said they were injured at his show, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.
One fan filed a lawsuit against Scott and several other parties after he said he was partially paralyzed at a Scott concert also in 2017.
Violent mosh pits and chaotic crowds were first features of the ’80s punk scene, when fans, usually male, would thrash and collide to heavy metal and hardcore grunge, a result of fans experiencing “a shared euphoria and sense of emotional closeness,” UK psychologist Matt Jarvis told UK style magazine The Face.
In a GQ interview posted in 2015 on “how to rage,” Scott said he wanted his concerts to feel like high-energy wrestling matches.
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That year, three people waiting to enter the festival were transported to the hospital after being trampled before the festival even started, CNN affiliate KTRK reported at the time.
The Houston Police Department’s investigation into what went wrong at Astroworld could take weeks, if not longer, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said.