New York police are looking for rapper Travis Scott after he allegedly punched a sound engineer and caused $12,000 in damage to a Manhattan nightclub early Wednesday morning, officials said.
Officers from the New York Police Department’s Midtown Precinct South responded to Club Nebula on West 41st Street at approximately 3:25 a.m. after a sound engineer said “he was involved in a verbal argument with Scott, according to a statement from the department.
The rapper was accused of escalating the argument “into a physical altercation. Travis Scott punched the victim with a clenched fist in the left side of the face,” according to the NYPD.
Scott was also charged with causing approximately $12,000 worth of damage to a speaker and video screen before fleeing west on 41st Street in a car, police said. .
Investigators said they were reviewing the club’s surveillance video.
Earlier in the evening, Scott was at rapper Don Toliver’s show at Irving Plaza, about 25 blocks south of Club Nebula.
A representative for Scott said he was unaware of all the details and did not wish to comment immediately.
The 31-year-old artist, real name Jacques Bermon Webster II, is the longtime boyfriend of reality TV star Kylie Jenner. They have two children together.
Scott’s name is also synonymous with a Houston music festival that turned deadly on Nov. 5, 2021, when 10 people died at his Astroworld concert.
He’s headlining this weekend’s Rolling Loud festival at the Hollywood Park Grounds in Inglewood, Calif.
Scott is scheduled to take the stage on Saturday, a day after the Kodak Black concert.
A Florida judge on Tuesday ordered the rapper, real name Bill Kapri, to undergo 30 days of drug rehab after testing positive for fentanyl, in violation of his bail conditions.
Broward County Judge Barbara Duffy said the “Super Gremlin” entertainer could remain free until March 7.
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