T he family of John Hilgert filed a lawsuit against Travis Scott and his music production company on Wednesday demanding change to the music industry. The 14-year-old was one of 10 people killed during a brutal crowd rush during Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston. The suit was filed by attorney …
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A 9-year-old boy who was “trampled” and separated from his father while attending Travis Scott‘s Astroworld festival on Friday is fighting for his life at a children’s hospital in Houston, his grandparents confirmed to Rolling Stone. The grandmother of Ezra Blount says her grandson was being carried on the shoulders …
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As a young producer for Three 6 Mafia, the long-running Memphis rap group with a gift for grimy, bulldozing beats and brawling hooks, DJ Paul was offered the chance to perform in Russia. He declined. “I was young at the time, and I turned down the show because I heard …
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Roddy Ricch‘s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart this week. Ricch’s major-label debut arrived at Number One when it came out last month. Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial sold less than 1,000 copies, but it racked up …
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Three people were hospitalized after a stampede occurred in the moments before Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston opened its gates. The rapper posted video on Instagram of fans pushing down barricades and running toward the NRG Park parking lot prior to noon Saturday, when gates were scheduled to open …
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Netflix has announced a new documentary on Travis Scott. Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly traces the rapper’s relatively quick rise to fame and the new trailer for the White Trash Tyler-directed film traverses the rapper’s childhood, with commentary from family and friends, on through to his riveting performances. …
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Ed Sheeran‘s new album No.6 Collaborations Projecthas arrived and with it a music video for “Antisocial,” his joint track with Travis Scott. The slightly bonkers clip, directed by Dave Meyers and written by Matt Walton, sees Sheeran embodying numerous characters, with numerous wigs. Movie references abound, including a particularly horrifying …
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