Travis Scott returned to a London stage final night time for the primary time since final November’s Astroworld tragedy – however issues didn’t go with no hitch.
His headline gig at London’s O2 Enviornment on August 6 was additionally considered one of his first main performances general after 10 individuals have been killed at his music pageant in a lethal crowd surge in Houston, Texas final yr.
Asserting the present on his social media in June, saying on the time that he was leaving the studio to ‘take it to [a] greater speaker’, the rapper carried out with the assist of accomplice Kylie Jenner and their four-year-old daughter Stormi, who’ve joined him within the British capital.
Nevertheless, one particular person within the crowd took the chance to throw an object at Scott whereas he was performing early on in his set.
It was reportedly a heavy merchandise, as a loud bang was heard because it made contact with the ground.
The rapper was mentioned to be unimpressed and aggravated by the incident however carried on together with his present with out interruption, avoiding its distraction.
Scott donned futuristic white shades for the present with slits throughout the eyes, in addition to his common uniform of saggy denims and a graphic T-shirt, with a leather-based jacket that he shed early on.
He additionally handled the gang to a brand new tune, taking part in God’s Nation, which was scrapped from Kanye West’s 2021 album Donda.
His London efficiency got here scorching on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that he had secured a Las Vegas residency in September.
The 31-year-old has been confirmed to carry out seven exhibits at Zouk nightclub in Las Vegas’s Resorts World, the place Scott – whose actual title is Jacques Bermon Webster II – will placed on ‘a mind-bending, first-of-its-kind nightclub residency expertise’ together with his Street To Utopia exhibits.
It comes after his headline efficiency at Nevada’s Day N Vegas pageant, which was as a consequence of happen from September 2-4, was cancelled as a consequence of ‘a mix of logistics, timing, and manufacturing points’.
He has solely carried out a handful of exhibits since Astroworld in November 2021, conserving a low profile within the intervening months, and initially acting at a number of personal occasions, together with a brief visitor look at a Coachella afterparty on April 17 and a personal pre-Oscars occasion in Bel-Air on March 26.
He made his first TV look since when he carried out on the 2022 Billboard Music Awards in Could, which divided followers, earlier than making a shock look throughout Future’s Rolling Loud set in Miami in late July.
The Highest within the Room rapper is going through a category motion court docket submitting from Could, which claims greater than 4,900 individuals have been injured at Astroworld, 732 of which have been ‘severely’ injured and required intensive medical therapy.
After the incident, Scott shared a press release during which he expressed his ‘devastation’ over the flip of occasions.
Metro.co.uk has contacted reps for Scott for remark.
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