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.

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.