UPDATED 3/19, 9:50 p.m. ET: Blu Linares, the transgender woman attacked during Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s set at Rolling Loud California, says the brawl was motivated by transphobia.
Linares, 22, told TMZ that she and other concertgoers were being pushed around in a crowded, moshpit-like space at the music festival.
“We were just all enjoying the concert and then this group of two guys, the crowd kept bumping us into each other,” said Linares. “They thought I was doing it on purpose or whatever it was. But they were not having it.”
She said that the men she unintentionally bumped into then hurled transphobic insults before attacking her. The men apparently tried to make Linares out to be the aggressor despite them attacking first.
“I feel like it was transphobic because of the things that were said to me. They were accusing me of doing stuff on purpose,” Linares said. “They were trying to get me to look like the person that was trying to aggress the whole situation, but they were the ones that attacked me first, for basically no reason. Just because we were bumping into each other.”
She continued, “It’s a given if you’re going to a festival, of course you're going to be bumping into people around you, but for some reason they were specifically getting angry at me.”
Despite sustaining injuries—including scrapes and bruises on her body plus one deep gash between her eyebrows—Blu insists that she’s okay and exploring legal options. However, she added that she’s unlikely to take action. Police were reportedly not involved in the incident.
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A fight broke out in a mosh pit during Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign's set at Rolling Loud in Los Angeles, and video footage showed the bloody scuffle.
The Vultures 1 duo performed at the hip-hop festival on Thursday night, and fans broke out into moshpits as songs off the new album rang throughout the Hollywood Park Grounds.
However, one of the mosh pits got pretty violent, as video footage surfaced online showing someone with a bloodied face getting physical with several people. At one point, the person received multiple punches to the face.
There's no official report on why the brawl started in the first place, but the caption in the video below alleges that the person with the bloodied face was a transgender woman who got "jumped" during Ye and Ty's set.
The duo took the stage without microphones, and were joined by Quavo and Freddie Gibbs.
After the run-through of Vultures 1, the DJ played several of Ye's old hits, but the rapper did not come back out to give an actual performance. Ye and Ty did have time to sit down with Big Boy following their performance for an in-depth hour-long conversation about a number of topics, including the next two installments in the Vultures series, North West's new album, and more.
