Playboi Carti fans gathered at the NRG Arena in Houston Saturday night to get a glimpse of one of music’s biggest stars, but that never happened.
Instead, Carti’s Narcissist Tour stop was called off, as a chaotic scene unfolded outside the venue. While ABC 7 reports that the show was called off because of the chaos, KSAT reports that the rowdiness was the result of the show being called off. Video of the chaos shows people destroying property to get inside the venue. One person told Click2Houston that she spotted some people kicking a horse as things escalated.
Playboi Carti fans gathered at the NRG Arena in Houston Saturday night to get a glimpse of one of music’s biggest stars, but that never happened.
Instead, Carti’s Narcissist Tour stop was called off, as a chaotic scene unfolded outside the venue. While ABC 7 reports that the show was called off because of the chaos, KSAT reports that the rowdiness was the result of the show being called off. Video of the chaos shows people destroying property to get inside the venue. One person told Click2Houston that she spotted some people kicking a horse as things escalated.
“Some people were actually kicking the horses. I don’t know why, but they were kicking the horses,” Hannah Sampson told the outlet. “Somebody got trampled. It was a security guard and an ambulance.”
While no reports have verified someone getting trampled at the venue, another Carti fan, Jordan Martinez, described the scene. He showed up to hear Carti—performing his late 2020 effort Whole Lotta Red live—an hour before doors were scheduled to open.
“It was chaos. It was a war zone honestly,” Martinez said. “It was mosh pits, fights and everything.”
The Houston Police Department did not make any arrests Saturday night after calling for back-up, and the venue is advising ticket holders to seek refunds at their point of purchase. Houston police are reportedly still investigating the incident.
A similar incident took place at a Carti show last week, and as seen in a video shared by Akademiks, fans tossed around a metal detector to make their way through the venue.
Carti has not yet addressed the cancellation on social media, but on Sunday, he tweeted the words “HARDcore” and “Cult”—his first tweets since September.
