Singer, Billie Eilish, is believed to have thrown a ‘shade’ at Travis Scott after she stopped her Atlanta concert, to give a fan who was struggling to breathe an asthma inhaler, reports revealed.
The Grammy-winning artist was in the middle of a show at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta when she spotted a female concert goer caught in a pit near the front of the stage’s walkway, reports indicated. In the video posted by a Billie fan account, the singer asked her fan, who appeared to need medical attention, “Do you need an inhaler?”
Billie then turned to her crew and asked: “Do we have an inhaler? Can we just grab one?” the ‘Bad Guy’ singer asked, before saying, “It’s OK, we got one”.
After making sure the fan got the inhaler, she then blew her a kiss, and said “I love you”, and urged the audience to “give her some time, don’t crowd”.
“I wait for people to be okay until I keep going”, Billie said later on stage. While she didn’t name Scott, fans believed she was referencing the Astroworld tragedy, which resulted in 10 people killed.
The incident involving Travis took place during the first night of the Astroworld concert, which was held in November last year. The ‘Sicko Mode’ rapper’s fans began acting aggressively just after the start of his set, during which a crowd surge occurred and thousands were pushed towards the main stage.
However, the hip-hop star continued to perform for his fans and brought out Drake to finish off his set, which ended around 10 p.m. Hundreds of lawsuits were filed against Travis for his role in the festival’s tragic events. Recently, nearly 400 suits, which represent almost 2,800 alleged victims, have been officially bundled into one giant case.
Travis, in his first interview with Charlamagne Tha God, insisted that he didn’t hear any screams for help when the crowd surge began. According to the ‘Goosebumps’ rapper, anytime an artist is performing and such an incident happens, they would definitely stop the show and according to him, that was what he did
“You want to make sure fans get the proper attention they need, and anytime I could see anything like that, I did. I stopped the show a couple of times to just make sure everybody was okay. I really just go off of the fans’ energy as a collective and I just didn’t hear that”.
Travis Scott
In Travis Scott’s first legal response, he and his company “generally denied the allegations” made in the lawsuits.
Travis, who recently welcomed his second child with Kylie Jenner, also “respectfully” requested that “the claims against these Defendants be dismissed with prejudice”.
The legal papers further disclosed that “these Defendants be granted such other and further relief, both at law and in equity, to which they are entitled”.
Scott also had several sponsorships paused or dropped entirely, and he was removed from the lineups of various events, including the 2022 Coachella Festival.
A petition to have him return to the stage gained more than 70,000 signatures, but it was eventually shut down. The rapper was later replaced by Eilish on the Coachella bill.
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