Travis Scott is a Repeat Offender

   Travis Scott is a repeat offender. Oh, it is that Nov. 5, 2021, concert for which he is famous. Ten people were killed. They rushed the gates to get in and rushed the mosh pit once they were in. But, Scott had a history long before that.

  Crowd crush. So tight was the crowd, that they crushed each other. In addition to those killed, more than 300 were injured at that concert in Houston.

   Yes, this is same Travis Scott the Utah Jazz have contracted with to bring in his friends, Don Toliver and Sheck Wes, for a concert for this year's NBA All-Star festivities.

   "Make some noise for my boy right there hanging in the tree," he would yell during the concert. 

   Make the ground shake, he would ask of those in the tightly-packed audience.

   "Y'all know what you came to do, Chase B, let's go," he would scream. And, what did they come to do? Don't let it get passed you that many of them were "ragers" and they came to pack so tight that crushing each other was inevitable.

   Get wild, go crazy, he would ask of them. 

   Fans dying at a concert is not new. You can cite a concert by the Who, or another by Pearl Jam. But, make no mistake, whatever other bands have or have not done, Scott has a record for inciting his fans. Unfortunate deaths can happen -- accidental deaths. Perhaps that was the case with the Who and Pearl Jam.

    And, hopefully, Travis Scott had no intention of bringing death upon his fans either. But, he certainly has a long scorecard of inciting riotous behavior.   

   So many times that he qualifies as a repeat offender. 

    In 2015 at a Lollapalooza concert, Scott was charged with disorderly conduct after inciting concertgoers to ignore security and rush the stage. In 2017 after a concert in Arkansas, he took a plea deal after being arrested on suspicion of inciting a riot. That same year, at a concert in New York City, he urged fans to jump off the balconies, suggesting the crowd below would catch them.

   Music exucutive Irving Azoff once dropped Scott as a client, saying he was too unmanageable. 

  Has he encouraged dangerous conduct? "I Tried Not to Die at Travi$ Scott and Young Thug's Show Last Night," read a headline in 2015.

   Say what you want about the deaths not being Scott's fault, the bottom line is he egged those in the mosh pit on to do what they did. Yes, he was very apologetic after the fact, and said he didn't realize people were dying. Still, when you incite someone to violent behavior, you are guilty of criminal neglect.