When fashion giant Dior decided to make its entire upcoming spring/summer menswear collection a collaboration with Travis Scott, co-branded with his Cactus Jack label, the company thought it was entering into an invaluable partnership with a youth-culture titan. But in the wake of the fatal tragedy at Scott’s Astroworld festival, …
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The father of the 9-year-old boy who was “trampled and catastrophically injured” at the Astroworld Festival in Houston has filed a negligence lawsuit against concert promoter Live Nation and Travis Scott. Ezra Blount was on his dad Treston Blount’s shoulders at the Friday night festival when the two became trapped …
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When Travis Scott failed to earn a Grammy nomination for 2016’sBirds in the Trap Sing McKnight, “that was a real dark day,” says Sickamore, the rapper’s longtime A&R, who now works at Interscope Records. Scott returned on Friday withAstroworld,an imposing LPthat’s at once baroque and bludgeoning, sludgy and slick. The …
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Taylor Swift‘s Reputationreturned to Number One on the Billboard 200 as last-minute Christmas shopping propelled the year’s top-selling album back into the top spot. Reputation added 107,000 total copies to its platinum-plus haul to spend a fourth week at Number One. Swift’s latest LP opened up with three straight weeks …
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