Rapper Travis Scott and Astroworld Festival promoter Live Nation have hired renowned lawyers to defend them against a pile of suits that continue to mount against individuals and parties involved in organizing and executing the Nov. 5 festival performance in Houston.
For other people with the same name, see Travis Scott (disambiguation). Jacques Bermon Webster II, (born April 30, 1991) known professionally as Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer.
Personal life. Scott began dating reality television star and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner in April 2017. On February 1, 2018, Jenner gave birth to their first child, daughter Stormi Webster. Travis and Kylie recently appeared on the August 2018 cover of GQ Magazine.
A legal representative for Travis Scott has disputed a legal filing by a French artist surrounding the cover artwork for the 2015 compilation Travis La Flame.
Facing over $3 billion in damages over the deadly crowd surge, Travis Scott has hired Daniel Petrocelli, the head of litigation at Los Angeles-based law firm O'Melveny & Myers LLP, according to Billboard.
Daniel M. Petrocelli (born August 15, 1953 in East Orange, New Jersey) is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and the Chair of the firm's Trial Practice Committee. Petrocelli is known in part for his work in a 1997 wrongful death civil suit against O. J.
Edwin McPherson is Travis Scott’s lawyer, who is currently investigating the events surrounding the Astroworld incidents.
A mob surge at the music festival on Friday night hurt dozens of people. In the aftermath of a crowd crush at Astroworld in Houston on November 5, nine people have been confirmed deceased, with more than 300 people injured.
Jacques Bermon Webster II, (born April 30, 1992) known professionally as Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott ), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Scott performed at All-Star Weekend on February 16, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana at Champion Square. He also performed at New Orleans BUKU Music + Art Project festival on March 10, 2017. On March 5, Scott announced a concert tour called "Birds Eye View". The next day, the dates and cities for the tour were unveiled, with it beginning on March 10, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and coming to an end on June 2, in Eugene, Oregon. In the same month, Scott was also featured alongside American rapper Quavo from the hip-hop group Migos on Canadian rapper Drake 's single " Portland ", from Drake's commercial mixtape, More Life. The song peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first top ten song as a featured artist. In March 2017, Scott announced he would be launching his own imprint, under the name of Cactus Jack Records. During an interview, Scott said, "I'm not doing it to have financial control over my music. I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better. By better I mean no bullshit. No lying to the artists about album release dates or the budgets of videos and albums." On June 15, 2017, Scott announced he would be doing a European leg of the "Birds Eye View Tour". The European leg started on the June 23 in Paris, and concluded on July 9 in Turku, Finland. This leg was mainly festival sets or in smaller club settings.
His second album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016) became his first number one album on the Billboard 200. The following year, Scott released a collaborative album with Quavo titled Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho under the group name Huncho Jack.
The same month, Scott was also featured on the remix of Young Thug's single, " Hot " with Gunna, who was featured on the original song as well. The song was later added to the deluxe edition of So Much Fun in December of that year. Scott also was featured on the track "Hop Off a Jet" from the deluxe edition.
In 2012, Scott signed his first major-label contract with Epic Records. In November of the same year, Scott signed a publishing deal with Kanye West 's GOOD Music, as part of its production wing Very GOOD Beats. In April 2013, Scott signed a recording contract with T.I. 's Grand Hustle imprint.
On August 27, 2017, Scott performed with Thirty Seconds to Mars at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on their single " Walk On Water ". Scott performing at Openair Frauenfeld in 2019. On September 18, 2017, Quavo and the Migos did an interview. Quavo stated that his album with Scott is coming "real soon".
Scott began dating reality television star and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner in April 2017. On February 1, 2018, Jenner gave birth to their first child, daughter Stormi Webster. The couple broke up in September 2019. However, they have been spotted together since, sparking rumors of their reconciliation. Scott was raised in the Christian faith, and occasionally includes religious themes in his music as a result, saying he "still find [s] faith in everything."