{"id":57427,"date":"2026-06-02T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57427"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:15:01","slug":"us-rapper-travis-scott-panned-in-turkey-for-20-minute-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57427","title":{"rendered":"US rapper Travis Scott panned in Turkey for 20-minute performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/06\/02\/5ecf7744-f956-423c-a92e-04eefd16e78f_559a8b94.jpg?itok=W9RNwc5r&amp;v=1780368624\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US 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 on Monday, footage on social media showed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On his first tour of Turkey, the 35-year-old hip-hop star made his Istanbul debut late on Sunday and was to hold another event in the western Izmir resort on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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 US$330.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The advertising blurb promised a 90-minute \u201cDJ set &amp; mic\u201d by the Houston-born rapper starting at 11pm local time in between performances by lesser-known artists.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">But fans said <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Scott<\/span> had turned up 90 minutes late only to slip away after a short 20-minute appearance, despite being the headliner.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Others demanded their money back on the Instagram account of promoter TemaCC, including Orhan Jung, who said he had paid more than US$1,000 for a VIP ticket \u2013 more than twice Turkey\u2019s monthly minimum wage \u2013 and denounced the event as a \u201cdisgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3355607\/fans-furious-travis-scotts-20-minute-istanbul-debut-set?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US rapper Travis Scott angered fans in Istanbul after a performance that barely lasted 20 minutes, with the audience booing as he left the stage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[23975,23973,2742,1918,3879,8234,23974],"class_list":["post-57427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-20minute","tag-panned","tag-performance","tag-rapper","tag-scott","tag-travis","tag-turkey","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}