Diddy ‘demanded’ that Travis Scott perform at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards

Travis Scott will make his first televised efficiency because the Astroworld tragedy in November on the Billboard Music Awards, and it appears to be Diddy’s doing.

Diddy (born Sean Combs) is internet hosting the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, which air Sunday, Might 15 on NBC, from the MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas.

Shortly after Scott’s efficiency was introduced on Monday, Diddy, 52, took to Instagram with a video revealing that he ‘demanded’ Scott carry out.

‘Hey what’s up, Pleased Monday y’all. I’ve some nice breaking information, this simply in. For the Billboard Music Awards, I made a request, I made a requirement, I mentioned my brother Travis Scott has to carry out,’ Diddy started.

Diddy added that he is each internet hosting and government producing the present, and that, ‘Travis Scott has to carry out.

‘And NBC mentioned sure. So it is happening. Travis Scott might be performing. Sure. Let’s go. That is love,’ Diddy mentioned.

He additionally spoke about insisting on Scott performing throughout an interview with Revolt Black News, the place he burdened Scott ought to be forgiven. 

‘There might be no canceling on my watch. Love is about forgiveness… in order that was why it was necessary for me to have Travis Scott carry out. It is going to be an awesome evening,’ he mentioned.

Whereas Scott’s Billboard Music Awards look might be his first televised efficiency because the Astroworld tragedy, he returned to performing over the weekend.

He carried out alongside Migos rapper Quavo on the Miami Grand Prix weekend at E11Even Miami. 

He additionally carried out at a non-public occasion outdoors of Coachella final month.

Scott has stored a comparatively low profile since his November 5 efficiency at Astroworld in his hometown of Houston that turned lethal.

A large crowd crush at NRG Park in Houston result in the deaths of eight people who evening, and two extra deaths within the hospital days later.

The reason for demise for all 10 people was listed as unintended compressive asphyxiation.

25 individuals have been hospitalized with early stories claiming there have been as many as 300 injured, although new court docket filings declare practically 5,000 individuals have been truly injured.

The attorneys who’re performing as council for the plaintiffs filed court docket paperwork claiming there have been truly 732 claims for, ‘accidents that required in depth medical therapy,’ together with, ‘1,649 tied to much less in depth therapy, and a couple of,540 claims for accidents the place the severity remains to be underneath evaluation,’ equaling over 4,900 accidents whole.