Sources close to Coachella’s organization tell Variety that Scott would no longer be welcome at the festival, where he was previously announced as the headlining act. A petition was launched a few days after the Astroworld drama, demanding that the rapper be banned from performing at the California music festival. The petition has already been signed nearly 60,000 times on Sunday.
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While Coachella hasn’t released an official statement about Scott yet, Variety says it’s “hard to imagine Scott performing at a music festival in the near future.”
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Earlier this week, Scott stated in an interview with Charlamagne Tha God that he was unaware of the fatal crowding in the crowd during Astroworld for a long time. The rapper says he only learned that people had died a few minutes before a press conference after the show ended.
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At the Astroworld Festival in Houston, USA, where 50,000 people attended, ten festival-goers were killed in early November and dozens were injured by crowding on the field. How the situation got so out of hand during the festival is still being investigated.
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