U.S. rapper Travis Scott angered fans in Istanbul after a performance that barely lasted 20 minutes, with the audience booing as he left the stage early Monday, footage on social media showed.<\/p>\n
On his first-ever tour of Turkiye, the 35-year-old hip-hop star made his Istanbul debut late Sunday and was to hold another event in the western Izmir resort on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Istanbul event was billed as \u201ca performance that goes beyond a classic concert\u201d with a limited audience of just 2,500 fans, according to one of the websites selling tickets, which started at $330.<\/p>\n
The advertising blurb promised a 90-minute \u201cDJ set & mic\u201d by the Houston-born rapper starting at 11:00 pm (2000 GMT) in between performances by lesser-known artists.<\/p>\n
But fans said Scott had turned up 90 minutes late only to slip away after a short 20-minute appearance, despite being the headliner.<\/p>\n
\u201cShameful event. They said he would start at 11:00 pm, he arrived at 00:35. We waited for hours standing up, he performed one song then left.. We wasted our money,\u201d wrote a fan called Ala Artan on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Others demanded their money back on the Instagram account of promoter TemaCC, including Orhan Jung, who said he had paid more than $1,000 for a VIP ticket — more than twice Turkiye\u2019s monthly minimum wage — and denounced the event as a \u201cdisgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNone of the promised VIP benefits were provided… Travis stopped by for 10 minutes and left,\u201d wrote Jung, who was posting stories from the venue throughout the evening.<\/p>\n
But TemaCC\u2019s chief executive Taylan Ozcan defended Scott\u2019s performance, saying the rapper had been \u201cat the heart of the event\u201d for the entire evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hosted the party for an hour… then he gave an exceptional performance for 20 minutes,\u201d Ozcan said in a statement to Turkish media.<\/p>\n
Advertising for Monday\u2019s show promised a similar event.<\/p>\n
\u201cTravis Scott will deliver a high-energy club show experience that goes beyond classic stage formats, engaging with the audience,\u201d the Biletino ticketing website said, with prices ranging from $215 to more than $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. rapper Travis Scott angered fans in Istanbul after a performance that barely lasted 20 minutes, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-709793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}