Travis Scott

"I stopped a couple of times... at the end of the day you just hear music," he told the Breakfast Club radio show in his first interview since the incident.

Ten concertgoers were killed after panic broke out at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on 5 November.

Multiple lawsuits have since been filed over the tragedy.

Among those killed as a result of the crowd surge during Scott's headline set was nine-year-old Ezra Blount.

The 30-year-old musician, one of the biggest names in rap music, has been criticised for not ending his show more abruptly.

Eight people aged between 14 and 27 were killed in a crush during the show last weekend, and hundreds more were injured, including a nine year old boy who is in a coma.

And now doctors say a 22-year-old woman who has been in hospital since the concert, is showing no signs of brain activity.

The news comes after a Houston fire chief claimed Rapper Travis Scott should have halted the show more quickly.

Samuel Peña told NBC: "Everybody at that event had a responsibility.....From the artist on down."

Officials declared the Houston concert a "mass casualty incident" at 9:38 p.m. Friday local US time during the festival at NRG Park in the US.

An estimated 50,000 people were in attendance, according to Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña. The surge began around the time that Scott, the festival headliner, took the stage.

The 29-year-old rapper launched the Astroworld festival in 2018, months after the release of his third studio album of the same name.

It's an unusually late move for the organization, which typically has the musical act lined up for months, to make an official announcement during the second week of the playoffs - less than a month before the big game.

The Super Bowl tends to draw the biggest (and least controversial) names in pop, so enlisting Maroon 5, which has earned 14 top 10 hits on the Billboard 100 and sold more than 50 million albums, makes sense for the most-watched show of the year.