It was reported that Travis Scott and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick spoke over the phone before Scott accepted the offer to do the Super Bowl halftime with the exception that $500,000 gets donated to a social justice charity. Kaepernick was okay with it.
Well, that seems to be untrue.
Ebro, HOT 97 radio host, and friend of Kaepernick, called the report “bullsh**” on Twitter and Kaepernick co-signed by retweeting the statement. His girlfriend, Nessa, also made a comment on Twitter by using the definition of the word “sell out” and that Scott is lying.
The two men did speak and here is how the conversation went.
Sources connected to Travis acknowledge, when TMZ broke the story on December 20 that Travis would perform at the Super Bowl, he had indeed made that decision. The contract, however, had not been signed.
Our Travis sources say based on the blowback he wanted to be “sensitive to the black community,” and that’s when he started thinking of some sort of donation the NFL might make. We’re told Travis’ people started negotiating a donation amount with the NFL and Travis was “willing to walk” if he didn’t get what he wanted.
Before the contract was signed, sources tell us Travis reached out to Colin … presumably to get him on board but not to ask for permission. We’re told Colin was not supportive of Travis performing at the Super Bowl, and the 2 men disagreed. Multiple sources characterize the conversation as “cordial and not hostile.”
Kaepernick retweets how Dream Corps, the company the NFL is donating the $500,000 to for Scott’s performance, is it connects with the NFL already, Kim Kardashian, Van Jones, and Donald Trump. In 2017, the NFL announced that 25% of their national funding for social justice programs would go to Dream Corps in hopes to end the protest that Kaepernick started “when he refused to stand for the national anthem.”
Flip the pages to see what Twitter is saying about the situation.