Travis Scott makes first major public appearance at Billboard Music Awards since Astroworld tragedy
![<i>Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images</i><br/>Travis Scott performs during the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 15.](https://abc17news.b-cdn.net/abc17news.com/2022/05/hypatia-h_d394eceba444f038610e5952fe1ce441-h_951a3ff2daa2667f852ac89500c15362-300-scaled.jpg)
Travis Scott performs during the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 15.
By Chloe Melas, CNN
Travis Scott returned to center stage at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday.
Scott performed two songs, “Mafia” and “Lost Forever,” after being introduced by Sean “Diddy” Combs and French Montana.
It was Scott’s first major public performance since a crowd surge killed ten people and injured thousands at his Astroworld Festival in Houston last November.
Diddy, who is the executive producer and host of this year’s Billboard Music Awards, said recently that he felt strongly about having Scott perform at the show.
“I made a request. I made a demand. I said ‘My brother Travis Scott has to perform. Diddy is hosting the show. I’m executive producing. He has to perform,’ and NBC said ‘yes.’ It’s going down. Sunday, Travis Scott will be performing. Let’s go,” Diddy said in an Instagram post.
He also told REVOLT, “I am uncanceling the canceled.”
Scott and his longtime partner, Kylie Jenner, walked the red carpet together earlier in the evening with their young daughter, Stormi.
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