The rapper carried out "Mafia" and "Misplaced Ceaselessly" throughout the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, roughly six months since a crowd surge at his annual Houston pageant turned lethal.
Simply six months after a lethal tragedy at his Astroworld music pageant, Travis Scott appeared chill (or fairly chilly) throughout his first awards present efficiency for the reason that incident, on the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.
The rapper delivered a snow-filled efficiency of “Mafia” and “Misplaced Ceaselessly” with the digital camera panning in on a home in a snowstorm. Scott and a bunch of dancers carrying white and fur carried out contained in the enclosure, climbing over giant rocks and snowdrifts.
Often the display screen switched to black with Scott and his dancers showing in black-and-white in opposition to a black backdrop.
The efficiency ended with the dancers attacking the digital camera and the digital camera switching round to face the viewers.
Final week in Miami, Scott made his first public efficiency for the reason that Astroworld tragedy, although he did carry out at a handful of personal occasions and afterparties.
He’s additionally set to carry out throughout the Primavera Pageant in South America this coming fall, marking his return to the pageant stage.
Whereas Scott was performing Nov. 5, throughout his annual multiday Astroworld pageant at Houston’s NRG Park, a crowd crush occurred, by which 10 folks died from compression asphyxia and tons of of individuals have been injured.
Following the tragedy, Scott’s appearances at Coachella and the Day N Vegas pageant have been scrapped and a collaboration with Dior was canceled.
Litigation over the incident was mixed right into a single giant lawsuit, with greater than 4,900 folks allegedly injured on the pageant, in response to attorneys representing the victims.
Billboard Music Awards host Sean “Diddy” Combs has stated that he personally requested to community NBC that Scott carry out throughout the awards present.
Chatting with Billboard forward of Sunday night time’s present, Diddy stated that having Scott and nation artist Morgan Wallen, who confronted backlash and profession penalties since a video surfaced of him utilizing the N-word, carry out on the BBMAs was him “un-canceling the canceled.”
“The temper of the present is about love and forgiveness. As a musical household, none of us are saints; none of us are with out issues that occur to them in life,” Diddy stated. “So one of many issues I’m doing instantly is un-canceling the canceled. That’s breaking information as a result of folks haven’t been about uncanceling. However canceling is a pattern that should cease. Travis went by way of a tragedy; Morgan [used the N-word] whereas speaking to his boy. Folks make errors. Now we’re shifting on with love and respect for everyone that was damage or affected. It’s time to forgive. To have Morgan and Travis be capable to come again and contact the stage once more with the mindset of getting a second probability at life. All people within the room is getting a second probability at life, you recognize, as a result of we’re again inside with no masks on. We want love and I’m enthusiastic about celebrating that.”
Scott was nominated for high dance/digital music on the 2022 BBMAs for “Goosebumps” however misplaced to Elton John and Dua Lipa’s “Chilly Coronary heart.”
The 2022 Billboard Music Awards aired dwell from the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas on NBC beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The present additionally streamed dwell on Peacock.
The Billboard Music Awards ceremony is produced by MRC Reside & Various, a division of MRC, which is a co-owner of The Hollywood Reporter by way of a three way partnership with Penske Media titled P-MRC.
Watch Scott’s efficiency beneath.