Travis Scott Blames Johannesburg Show Delay on Weather After Fans Criticize Him For Lateness: ‘Never Late’

Travis Scott said the upwind was to blasted aft fans criticized La Flame for starting a amusement precocious successful Johannesburg, South Africa.

Scott performed astatine the FNB Stadium successful Johannesburg connected Saturday (Oct. 11). While the cinematic amusement successful beforehand of 70,000 fans went disconnected without a hitch, immoderate fans hopped online afterward to knock La Flame’s punctuality.

“Travis Scott yet gets connected stage, implicit an hr late,” 1 professional wrote connected X. Scott himself responded to the disgruntled instrumentality and said the reasons for the hold were retired of his control.

“Wasn’t a hr late,” helium wrote. “[Lightning] delay, brudda. Flame ever ready.” Scott wrote, “Never precocious to a nighttime show.” Billboard reached retired to Scott’s reps for further comment.

Scott was besides tweeting close up until helium took the signifier and intelligibly couldn’t incorporate his excitement for the show.

“JOBURGGGGGGGG ITS TIME TO SHOW THE WORLLDDDDDDDDD THE HOW YOU ROCKKKKKK LETS RIDEEEEEE,” Scott wrote successful 1 tweet connected Saturday. “U KNOW WHAT I CAME TO SEEEE.”

After the show, helium added, “Nahhhhhh yall acceptable TONE.”

Still, fans mostly near Saturday’s amusement overjoyed by Scott, which wasn’t the lawsuit during Flame’s show astatine the UK’s Leeds Festival successful August. Scott abruptly ended his headlining acceptable aboriginal and near the stage, giving nary crushed for his departure. One instrumentality theorized Scott whitethorn person gotten excessively adjacent to his pyrotechnics and burned his manus aft video showed the rapper shaking his manus earlier walking disconnected stage. Scott ne'er confirmed the crushed for his departure but cryptically asked for fans to nonstop him videos after.

“Who got the implicit caput video of the intro of the acceptable astatine Leeds,” Scott wrote connected X. “Champain and dumbo that was maddd wild.”

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