‘I’m A Man Of God’: Travis Scott Denies Satanic Themes At Disastrous ‘Astroworld’ Festival

No one denies that an unspeakable tragedy happened at Travis Scott’s “Astroworld” music festival in early November. But some of the more unique claims are a lot more sinister than just gross negligence. A few concertgoers alleged that the concert was rife with Satanic imagery and symbolism. These theories were spread widely on Twitter and TikTok.

These rumors eventually caught up with the rapper himself. Scott addressed the claims during a recent conversation with Charlamagne Tha God, which was the first time he’s spoken publicly about the disastrous concert that killed 10 people and injured more than 300.

According to Newsweek, concert attendees described the overall vibe as “hellish.” There were also rumors that the entire tragedy was planned as a “blood sacrifice” with Scott as the instigator. The buzz became so strong on TikTok that the platform started removing any content alleging Scott designed the event as an intentional Satanic ritual, BBC reported. They said these claims violated their “conspiracy theories used to justify hateful ideologies” guidelines.

“The entrance of the concert seemed to be the mouth of the singer and everyone had to kind of go in through that,” Father Michael Maginot told Fox News right after the incident.

“And certainly for a demon, the mouth is the prime part of one’s body that it would like to take over because it could communicate and talk,” he continued.

It didn’t help that the concert’s slogan was, “See you on the other side.” The entrance was also compared to Hieronymus Bosch’s “Christ in Limbo” painting.

Powerful images of Scott standing in front of the burning pyrotechnic display were submitted as additional proof of satanic symbolism. These images were taken while the performer allegedly ignored the pleas of concertgoers asking him to stop the show. But Scott made a point to deny these claims during his interview.

“I’m a man of God, that’s the first thing first,” the rapper told Charlamagne. He also claimed not to know people were in trouble during the concert.

“It wasn’t really until minutes until the press conference [after the show] until I figured out exactly what happened, you know? Even after the show, you’re just kind of hearing things, but I didn’t know the exact details until minutes before the press conference,” Scott explained. “And even at that moment, you’re kind of just like, ‘Wait, what?’ You just went through something.”

Scott later claimed he “double-checked to “make sure everyone was OK. I got a response everybody was OK,” he insisted.

Mostly, the rapper insisted he did nothing wrong. “I’m the face of the festival, I’m [an] artist, so yeah, the media … they want to put it on me, but at the end of the day, it’s like, I don’t think it’s more so about that, I think it’s more so about stepping up to figure out what the problem is. And I could take that,” he told Charlamagne.

“I could take stepping up to figure out what the problem is; I could take stepping out to figure out the solution is so that it never happened again.”

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