Former manager Travis Scott opens up after Astroworld drama

You probably didn't miss it this weekend: the drama that unfolded at Astroworld on Friday, the festival of rapper Travis Scott. Eight deaths in total, which could still rise, and dozens of injuries. The videos circulating on TikTok show how severe the panic was that Friday night at Astroworld. There are also videos of Travis Scott's performance, and there is a lot of criticism regarding the fact that he did not stop his performance. The videos clearly show that there is an ambulance in the crowd and you can see several people begging for help. Unconscious people are also being carried to the ambulance. I found those videos quite intense to watch. From Travis himself, it remains quite silent except for one statement in which he says he is ‘devastated’ by these events.

Who has opened up is his former manager Shane Morris. He posted the following video on TikTok, in which he shares his experience with Travis Scott — he was his manager until 2013. At that time, rumors had already surfaced that Morris suffered a stroke in a basement in the presence of Scott, who then left him for dead. And with this video, he at least confirmed that this indeed happened back then. In fact, he opens with: ‘Travis Scott is the worst person I worked with in my entire career in music.’

@shanemorrisdotsucksTravis Scott needs to be stopped. #travisscott #astroworld #musicbiz #lies #thisneedstostop #truth♬ original sound – Shane Morris

Don't feel like watching the video? No worries, I'll translate his text for you.

‘Travis Scott is the worst person I have worked with in my entire career. Eight people are dead and hundreds have been injured after Travis Scott's callous, reckless behavior at Astroworld. And I hate that I am the one who has to say this, but I saw this coming and tried to tell everyone.

The story that DDot* tells is true. I am Travis Scott's former manager. I am the one who had a stroke and I am the one he left for dead in a basement in Los Angeles. I told my story for the first time in 2013 and then it came up again six years ago on Reddit.

The stories coming from Astroworld and all the videos showing the evidence are quite clear and all align with what I know about Travis Scott. When he sees people in pain or in danger, he tends to only think about himself. And to make it worse: he has been doing this for years at other concerts.

I could go on endlessly about stealing work, assaults, and all the lies he has told in his career, but what I mainly want you to understand is this: I think it's time to open up. And I don't mind doing this because Travis Scott is genuinely a terrible person.

When I met Scott in 2009, I was running a website called earmelt.com with some friends, Trey and Blake. I was a junior software engineer and had just finished working for MySpace Music, so I was working on the tech side of music.

What I did for Travis was fake his popularity. I programmed a fleet of SoundCloud bots to artificially boost his streams on SoundCloud. This way, the heads of record labels thought he was more popular than he actually was.

We did the same in the early days of Twitter. As you may have seen — and someone has even made a joke about it — his earlier followers could follow an omelet because they were all eggs (bots). We misused software to increase his visibility.’

*DDot posted the following message on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/DDotOmen/status/1456976023635906566