Was Astroworld a Tragedy Waiting to Happen?

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Houston, 2021: Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival was supposed to be the event of the year. But instead, it became one of the deadliest rap concerts in history. 10 people lost their lives, hundreds were injured and the world was left asking: How did this happen? It was declared a mass casualty event, but instead of stopping the show… producers let it play on. Travis kept performing and Drake was even brought out on stage. All while hundreds of people in the crowd screamed for help. Travis Scott calls himself the King of Rage. An artist who tells his fans to never be bystanders to chaos. But that night at Astroworld, did Travis Scott become the biggest bystander of all? Resources: Pink Bow Foundation - https://www.pinkbowsfoundation.org/ https://linktr.ee/eleanornealeresources Watch OUTLORE Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorNeale Follow Me Here for Updates & Short Form Content: Instagram TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
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1:02.1	Hello and welcome to Outlaw Podcast.
1:06.9	I'm Eleanor Neal and in today's episode, we're in Houston in 2021,
1:14.2	where 50,000 fans gathered at Travis Scott's annual Astro World Festival to watch the man himself take the stage.
1:15.2	Now, Travis is known for being a rager.
1:18.1	This concert was expected to be wild, but by 9.53 p.m., it had been declared a mass
1:24.7	casualty by the Houston Fire Department. Unconscious bodies were being dragged
1:30.1	out of the crowd. Ambulances struggled their way in to save lives, but still 10 people died in the
1:37.4	Astro World tragedy and a further 300 were injured. But who was to blame for the mass deaths at the concert that day? Was it
1:46.2	truly just a devastating accident or were red flags ignored? Was AstroWorld a disaster just waiting to happen?
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