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Travis Scottis closing the door on his spiked seltzer business venture.
On Friday, Anheuser-Busch announced that it is discontinuing the “Sicko Mode” rapper’s Cacti hard seltzers, which have been in stores for less than a year. The brand’s social media accounts on Instagram and Twitter have already been taken down.
“After careful evaluation, we have decided to stop all production and brand development of CACTI Agave Spiked Seltzer. We believe brand fans will understand and respect this decision,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement, perAdAge.
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When asked if the decision was in relation to theAstroworld Festivalevent in Houston last month that left10 people deadand hundreds injured, the spokesperson declined to comment, according toUpRoxx.
PEOPLE has reached out to Scott’s rep for comment but has not heard back at the time of this publication. Anheuser-Busch was also not immediately available for comment.
Ahead of the product’s launch in March,Scott told PEOPLE, “It’s been really rewarding building out the CACTI brand over the past year, not only with the physical product on shelves but being able to exercise my creativity with something like this visual is super important to me.”
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On Thursday, Scott, 30, sat down with Charlamagne Tha Godfor his first interviewsince the Astroworld Festival tragedy occurred, in which he spoke candidly about the event.
“It wasn’t really until minutes until the press conference until I figured out what happened,“Scott told Charlamagne Tha God.
“Even after the show, you know, you’re just kind of hearing things, which I didn’t know the exact details until, you know, minutes before the press conference,” he added. “And even at that moment you’re kind of just like, ‘Wait, what?’ You know, you just went through something.”
In the filings, Scott and his company “generally deny the allegations” made in the lawsuits, and “respectfully request that the claims against these Defendants be dismissed with prejudice,” the response read. “And that these Defendants be granted such other and further relief, both at law and in equity, to which they are entitled.”
The filing followed a report fromBillboardlast week that stated the numerous lawsuits against Scott may be consolidated into one large case. The lawsuits, in part, accuse Scott, Live Nation, which organized the event, and other event organizers as legally negligent in how the event was planned.
The new legal developments came less than a week after the families of multiple victims, including 9-year-oldEzra Blountand 14-year-oldJohn Hilgert, rejected Scott’s offers to pay for their funeral expenses.
source: people.com
