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Travis Scotts Astroworld at Madison Square Garden.  GREGORY ZARB/THE STATESMAN FILES

How Astroworld turned into a “mass casualty event”

Skylar Sena November 14, 2021
On Friday, Nov. 5, at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, a crowd rush kickstarted a struggle that became a tragedy. In a crammed audience of around 50,000 attendees, momentum led to collapse, air loss and trampling, resulting in nine deaths.
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American rapper Gustav Ahr, better known as Lil Peep, died on Nov. 15 from drug overdose. MILLER RODRIGUES/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS VIA CC BY-SA 3.0

Lil Peep death’s unsettles rap culture’s view on drugs

Louis James Marrone November 26, 2017
Lil Peep, known to some as Gustav Åhr from Long Island, was a walking canvas, and not just because of the copious amount of tattoos that he sported, like “crybaby” inked across his forehead in cursive.
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