RAPPER SCOTT FLIP- OUT
Kylie ex 'wrecks' club
Rapper Travis Scott socked a sound engineer in the face and damaged $12,000 worth of equipment at a Midtown club early Wednesday, authorities and police sources said.
The 31-year-old rapper punched the 52-year-old man during a dispute in the Nebula club on West 41st Street near Broadway around 2 a.m., according to police and the sources. He also damaged an audio speaker and a video screen, worth about $12,000, cops said.
He has not been charged. “Travis came in angry and intoxicated and progressively went postal,” a source said. “His shirt said ‘Back the f--k up.’ It’s like he was poised for battle. It was foreshadowing.”
The ordeal unfolded as rapper Don Toliver, who is signed to Scott’s label, was performing at the club, sources said.
The pair had earlier performed on stage together during Toliver’s show at Irving Plaza Tuesday night, according to other videos posted online. At the after-party, footage obtained by Page Six shows Scott seemingly pushing the DJ and shouting “back the f--k up” after the rapper got behind the decks.
One source claimed Scott erupted after the soundman lowered the speaker volume because “Travis had it all the way blasting and distorted.” “Travis then walks over to the soundman yelling aggressively in his face on why he lowered the sound, then he smacks the soundman right across the face,” the source alleged, adding it caused a “big commotion” between Scott’s security and club personnel. “He was upset about the sound. He punched one of the speakers and dented it,” another source said of Scott’s alleged outburst.
The source said Scott then took a fan’s phone who had been recording the show and threw it to the ground.
A source close to Scott insisted the ordeal was a misunderstanding and said the rapper and his team were working with cops to sort it out.
The victim, who appeared to be inside his Jersey City home but didn’t answer the door to The Post on Wednesday, didn’t complain of pain or have visible injuries, cops said.
But the 52-year-old victim, identified only as Mark, told Fox 5 he can’t move his neck and his arm is tingling.
Mark, who appeared dazed and couldn’t turn his head to face the camera, said he was only trying to help Scott when the star turned on him.
“I was trying to tell him to lower [the music] so it sounded good for the performance but he just stuck his middle finger in my face,” he said. “So I lowered the monitor a little bit so I could talk to him, and that’s when he ran around the speaker and attacked me.”
The rapper, born Jacques Bermon Webster II, began dating Kylie Jenner in 2017. They have two children in common, Aire, 1, and Stormi, 5. The pair is reportedly no longer together.