Following the cancellation of Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ live performance on the Pyramids of Giza, Egyptian authorities reaffirm their causes for banning the occasion.
Regardless of the discharge of Travis Scott’s newest album, Utopia, setting new information on Spotify and Apple Music, Egyptian authorities have doubled down on their causes for banning the rapper’s deliberate launch occasion and efficiency on the Pyramids of Giza.
The Egyptian Musicians Syndicate shut down the occasion simply days earlier than setup was scheduled to start, leaving Travis Scott and his workforce already in Egypt with no venue for a live performance. The rapper informed his followers on social media that regardless of the cancelation, they’d discover one other location to carry the occasion, however indicated it might be at a later date.
On July 28, the day of the now-canceled efficiency, Travis Scott shocked followers with a video from an space that gave the impression to be close to the pyramids, singing at midnight and dancing with followers as they held up their cell phones for gentle.
“THREW A PARTY AT THE PYRAMIDS,” reads the tweet from a Travis Scott fan account with an accompanying video.
However the video left some critics questioning why the rapper was nonetheless in Egypt after authorities canceled his present. In the meantime, the Egyptian Musicians Syndicate launched a assertion reaffirming its resolution for the cancelation.
“The choice of the union to cancel Travis Scott’s live performance is a proper to the syndicate as a result of it’s chargeable for this matter,” stated the syndicate’s official spokesperson, Mohamed Abdullah, in an announcement to the press. “The union is robust, and we feared for our followers that any error would possibly happen on the live performance. The union should stand by the Egyptian folks and the viewers of the ceremony, and the union should specific its opinion with all braveness.”
Among the many causes the union cited for canceling the occasion included supposed “satanic rituals,” “freemasonry,” and considerations of hurt befalling concertgoers, with the latter possible stemming from the 2021 Astroworld tragedy through which ten folks have been killed and a whole lot extra injured.