Post Malone to replace Travis Scott at this weekend’s Day N Vegas festival
Travis Scott had reportedly been planning to drop out anyway after the Astroworld incident, but now he's been replaced
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After the deadly crowd surge on Friday during Travis Scott’s headlining performance at his Astroworld festival in Houston, the rapper is pulling back from other previously scheduled appearances. He was supposed to headline this coming weekend’s Day N Vegas festival in Las Vegas and had even remained on the official schedule until late last night, when the festival released the following statement: “Travis Scott will no longer be performing at Day N Vegas. The security and safety of all attending Day N Vegas has been and is always top priority in our festival planning.”
That kind of implies that he was asked not to attend, possibly over accusations that Scott has a history of inciting rowdy crowds, but Variety says that he had already decided not to play in Las Vegas days ago—sources reportedly said he was “too distraught to play.”
Now, Day N Vegas has announced that Post Malone will be stepping in to replace Scott on Saturday, with Kendrick Lamar headlining on Friday and Tyler, The Creator on Sunday. Other performers include SZA, Roddy Ricch, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby, and Doja Cat.
This comes as Scott has started facing a growing number of lawsuits over the incident in Houston, with more than a dozen Astroworld attendees now suing him, Live Nation, and nearly everyone else involved. At the same time, Scott is offering refunds to everyone who bought Astroworld tickets and has pledged to pay for the funerals of the eight people who died in the stampede last week.
Several hundred people were treated for injuries after the Astroworld crowd surge incident last week on Friday, and Variety adds that “around a dozen people” are reportedly still hospitalized and that some have “grave injuries.” Two of the people who died were minors, one 14 and the other 16.
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“too distraught to play.”
Right, he can’t keep his fragile concentration on his instrumental virtuosity prowess…oh wait…he just screams into a microphone?
TRY NOT TO CUT YOURSELF.
Extremely cool to sound identical to a 200 year old sports radio complainer from 1995
Yeah but how is he supposed to know who new artists are when he spends all day spamming the comments?
Extreme “Who’s-listening-in-2021″-on-a-Led-Zeppelin-Youtube-video energy. Go away.
Extreme? Well, I’ve heard of them
You’ll need more than words to convince us.
ANYONE ELSE POSTING ON THIS ARTICLE IN 2021?!!!
I wouldn’t wanna scream into a mike after my mere prescence on stage killed a bunch of people mere days ago.
Ok, let’s play “Which of these are real performers and which are made up”:
Friday and Tyler, The Creator, Sunday, SZA, Roddy Ricch, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby, and Doja Cat.
All of them are real except “Friday and,” which is a part of the sentence, not any of the names.
Dead Monkeys, Dead Donkeys, Dead Loss (reflecting the current state of the group), Trout, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon in a White Wine Sauce, Rex Stardust and Helen Shapiro.
And “Sunday”
Petition to change this site’s tagline to “Pop culture obsessives writing for people who like very specific movies and tv shows”Because for some reason every article about music brings out commenters who very proudly haven’t heard of extremely popular artists
…and these people.
These people are all really popular, yuo’re just out of touch.
Trick question. Those are all football players.
Trick trick question: American football or the other one?
I’m still trying to figure out what a Grandmaster Flash is.
I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now it scares me.
Geriatric streaker, if I have my terminology up to date.
I’ve enjoyed Friday and Tyler doing their acoustic set in my local coffee shop most Thursdays for the last eighteen months or so. I’m a bit surprised to hear them going rap, but it’s a big step up in audience.
Crossover can be risky
I was very confident that the answer was Roddy Ricch until I googled the name. I’m so out of touch with new music.
“Those who would give up Travis Scott and essential liberty, to purchase a little Post Malone and temporary safety, deserve neither Travis Scott nor liberty nor Post Malone nor safety.” -Benji Franklin
I prefer the earlier work of Pre Malone.
There were bits of overlooked genius in his Just Malone phase.
I feel like there’s a Better than Ezra joke buried in here somewhere.
Actually I think the current sequence of events makes Travis Scott himself Pre Malone. Or, since he’s pre-Post Malone, simply Malone.
he looks like he smells exactly like he looks like he smells
(Tobacco, pot, whiskey/blow BO, and cologne trying to cover it up)