Two years after the fatal tragedies at Astroworld, Travis Scott is reflecting on the emotional toll it’s taken on him and the sadness that continues to live inside of him.
During his Astroworld Festival on Nov. 5, 2021, 10 attendees were killed while thousands of other concertgoers were injured due to a crow rush at NRG Park in Houston, Texas.
During a recent interview for GQ’s Man of the Year issue, the “Sicko Mode” rapper spoke about that “overly devastating” time and the pain he’s been carrying with him ever since.
“I was just overly devastated, you know,” Travis told GQ. “Yeah. I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the utmost. You just feel for those people. And their families.”
Despite what some people may think, Travis wants the world to know that this incident is constantly on his mind, and he’s been working on ways to “make things better” and make himself better.
“I have pain too,” Travis added. “I have concerns, things that I think about, and the things I see…on a day-to-day basis I think about them.”
“And every day I want to find change in the things, to make things better, make myself better. It’s just like: I go through things like everyone else. And even recently through something like I never could imagine.”
Travis went onto discuss how he transfers some of that suffering into his music. Although it took him a while to make music again following the horrific tragedy, once he did, he found it very “therapeutic.”
“Making music, you think about things that go on in life and things that happen in your life, and you dial in on things. That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating.”
“I got back into it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months after. And the idea of just even getting back into music, working on music and just even getting into that, was therapeutic of being able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.”
Back in December 2021, during his first post-Astroworld interview, Travis told Good Morning America that he was unable to hear any screams as the crowd surged, but claimed he stopped the show several times to ensure the crowd’s safety.
To read more about Travis, be sure to check out his full GQ interview.