Travis Scott was arrested and booked by cops for inflicting a drunken disturbance on a Miami yacht on Thursday, however this was not the American rapper’s first brush with the regulation.
The Sicko Mode rapper, 33, who has two younger youngsters, Stormi and Aire, with Kylie Jenner – was arrested by police on the Miami Seashore Marina at 1:17 am yesterday.
Scott, whose actual title is Jacques Bermon Webster, was concerned in ‘a disturbance on a yacht’ which concerned individuals ‘preventing’, in keeping with police.
Cops interrogated him about whether or not he’d been ingesting. Scott replied: ‘It is Miami’.
He additionally responded to the night time’s chaos with a sequence of light-hearted tweets to calm fan fears about his upcoming tour, and an edited model of his bleary-eyed mugshot snapped within the early hours of Thursday morning.
Travis Scott was arrested in a single day for allegedly inflicting a drunken altercation on a Florida yacht – and his hilarious response underneath police interrogation was recorded in an affidavit seen by DailyMail.com
Pictured: an edited model of the mugshot Scott shared to his Instagram hours after the arrest
Scott appeared to reply to his brush with the regulation on social media with a tweet merely studying ‘lol’ at 8.45am Thursday
Scott wrote ‘lol’ on X and shared his reserving photograph full with photoshopped shades and earphones by way of Instagram tales.
His bond was set at $500 for trespassing and $150 for disorderly intoxication.
Through the years, Scott has had a couple of run-ins with the regulation.
Astroworld
Scott was on the forefront of the 2021 ‘Astroworld’ catastrophe, the place 10 individuals misplaced their lives and tons of extra have been injured whereas attending the rapper’s music pageant at NRG Park in Houston, Texas in a lethal crush.
On November 5, 2021, tons of of individuals have been filmed stampeding via a VIP entrance on the Stay Nation-organized occasion, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd management.
Travis Scott was filmed persevering with to carry out after eight individuals have been crushed to demise – together with two victims aged simply 14 and 16 – with one witness saying it was a ‘ground of our bodies’.
Movies circulating on Twitter confirmed the gang chanting ‘cease the present, cease the present!’
Whereas the live performance was declared a mass casualty occasion at 9.38pm, the live performance continued till 10:15pm, for which Scott – who was headlining and selling the pageant – was closely criticised.
The rapper, alongside the pageant’s organisers Stay Nation and ScoreMore confronted quite a few civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence and wrongful demise.
Nevertheless in June final 12 months, a Houston grand jury determined Scott wouldn’t face legal fees for his function within the lethal crowd surge.
In November final 12 months, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence on Astroworld in an interview with GQ, and mentioned he was ‘overly devastated’ by the tragedy, including that he thought concerning the catastrophe ‘on a regular basis’.
Scott mentioned: ‘Making music, you consider issues that go on in life and issues that occur in your life, and also you dial in on issues. That second for households, for town, you already know, it was devastating. And when it got here to creating, like even ending the album…I bought again into it in all probability like, I don’t know, months and months and months after.
‘And the concept of simply even getting again into music, engaged on music and simply even stepping into that, was therapeutic of having the ability to channel a number of the vitality into manufacturing and sounds and ending it.
Flowers are positioned exterior of the Astroworld pageant at NRG Park following the lethal crowd surge on November 5, 2021
‘I imply I used to be simply overly devastated, you already know. Yeah… Yeah, I all the time give it some thought. These followers have been like my household. You recognize, I really like my followers to the utmost.
Final month, Scott and Stay Nation settled 9 wrongful demise lawsuits.
Different Incidents At Performances
Scott had additionally beforehand been arrested and charged for reckless conduct after inciting followers at Lollapalooza to disregard safety and climb over barricades and onto stage in 2015.
He would later plead responsible to reckless conduct and obtain one 12 months supervised launch.
That very same 12 months, on the OpenAir Pageant in Switzerland, he inspired followers to assault a person who took his shoe whereas he was crowd browsing, by stopping the live performance and telling the gang repeatedly to ‘f**ok him up’ whereas additionally spitting on him.
In 2017, the rapper was arrested for comparable behaviour to his Lollapalooza incident two years prior after a efficiency in Northwest Arkansas.
Later that 12 months, a fan sued Scott and the organisers of a live performance at Terminal 5 in Manhattan after falling from a balcony and changing into paralysed, blaming the autumn on a crowd surge.
In 2019, three individuals have been trampled and injured as followers rushed to enter the compound at Astroworld.
Cannes Brawl
Final month, Scott and Tyga – who’re each ex boyfriends of Kylie Jenner – and their entourages have been reportedly concerned in an early morning brawl in Cannes, France.
The combat reportedly started after Scott and Tyga’s good pal Alexander ‘AE’ Edwards started taking swings at one another at Richie Akiva’s ‘The After,’ an annual occasion he throws in the course of the iconic French movie pageant that was held on the Domaine La Dilecta property.
Sources mentioned the hostilities started after Travis and Tyga have been each behind the DJ sales space.
After Akiva launched Tyga and Edward, he additionally reportedly shouted out Travis, which appears to have rubbed the Sicko Mode rapper the improper manner.
Travis is claimed to have taken the microphone from Akiva, prompting Edwards, who was chumming up with Tyga earlier within the night, to say one thing to him.
A supply instructed Web page Six that Edwards instructed Scott to ‘Let him present love.’
The rapper than reportedly started approaching Tyga’s safety and shouting threats and insults.
‘Y’all [N-word] wanna die?’ he shouted, in keeping with Web page Six.
‘Travis was the aggressor,’ a supply alleged. ‘He and his crew have been being neurotic, erratic and loopy. He was there searching for a combat with anybody to be sincere.’
He was seen leaving the stage in a huff, solely to allegedly return with Southside by his aspect.
TMZ’s sources say Southside and Edwards started shoving one another, earlier than Edwards landed a number of punches.
Scott and Southside reportedly rushed to their automobiles to go away after the combat was damaged up, although the occasion continued till round 9 a.m
Nebula Assault Allegations
In March final 12 months, Scott was acting at Nebula nightclub in New York when cops have been referred to as to the scene amid reviews that the rapper had attacked a sound engineer.
Whereas Scott insisted that the nightclub punch-up was all a misunderstanding after a ‘nice present’ witnesses filmed Scott snapping at a technician, recognized solely as Mark, after he reportedly requested Scott to decrease the music because it was too loud for the venue’s measurement.
The musician reportedly responded by giving Mark the center finger and punching him within the head, ensuing within the engineer needing medical consideration.
He was seen yelling ‘again the f*** up!’ in footage obtained by TMZ.
As soon as he realized he was being filmed, he additionally slapped the cellphone out of a fan’s hand.
The New York Police Division issued a warrant for the singer’s arrest, however the matter was resolved with a settlement reached and the NYPD not urgent any fees.
