Country star slams brawling followers at gig, telling them: ‘This is not a Travis Scott concert’ | EUROtoday

Country music star Cody Johnson berated a few brawling concertgoers, telling them “this is not a Travis Scott concert.”

The musician, identified for songs together with “Cowboy Like Me” and “‘Til You Can’t,” briefly stopped his present in San Antonio, Texas, over the weekend, in order that the people could possibly be eliminated.

“That’s alright, we got all night,” Johnson stated from the stage, throughout a efficiency of “God Bless America.”

“I mean, this is not a Travis Scott concert,” he stated, “there’s kids in the crowd.”

“There we go, there’s the police officers,” he added, as the group cheered.

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Johnson’s remark about Scott was a reference to the intense crush at one of many rapper’s reveals on the Astroworld music competition, in Houston, Texas, in November 2021.

Ten individuals died and scores extra have been injured following a “crowd surge” on the primary night time of the two-day competition, an annual music occasion hosted by Scott on the web site of the previous Houston Six Flags park.

Following reviews of the deaths within the crowd, Scott stated that he was “absolutely devastated” and later stated he thinks about what occurs “every day.” Civil lawsuits have been later filed by the households of the victims.

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Earlier finally weekend’s present, Johnson advised followers that over the previous few years he had “grown tired of … watching the news media and people in politics try to divide us when we don’t need to be divided.”

“Do you know why it’s okay sometimes to disagree with your fellow American, on anything?” he requested. “Because before most of us were born, an American soldier gave his or her life to have the freedom to disagree in the United States.”

After the brawling males have been faraway from the venue, he reportedly quipped: “Well, there goes my speech about unity.”