Saweetie Blamed For Stampede At Vegandale Chicago After Calling Out Fight In Crowd

Saweetie was accused of starting a stampede at Vegandale Festival in Chicago Sunday after she brought attention to a disturbance in the crowd during her performance.

In a video circulating on social media, Saweetie was in the middle of performing her set when she asked the DJ to stop the music.

The 30-year-old rapper -- born Diamonté Quiava Valentin Harper -- then addressed audience members who appeared to be involved in an alleged fight.

"I know y'all ain't doing what I think y'all doing. Is everybody safe?" Saweetie asked, as seen in the phone-recorded footage obtained by The Shade Room.

Other attendees seemingly panicked and began to flee the area and run toward the exit. Some allegedly thought there was a shooting at the event.

It is unclear if anyone was injured in the chaos. Some social media users who were at the festival reported that no shooting occurred.

Saweetie later returned to the stage to finish her set.

Saweetie was apparently worried about the fans as well as she tweeted after the festival: "[I] hope everyone got home safe tonight. That crowd looked crazy."

However, some social media users slammed the "My Type" rapper and blamed her for the stampede.

"It was a festival! Straight [clown]. Don't bring your a*s back to Chicago; you've done enough," one person wrote in a now-deleted response to Saweetie's post on X, formerly Twitter. "It was babies out there getting trampled on for nothing."

"This is all Saweetie fault. Why would you say on the stage in Chicago, 'I know y'all ain't doing what I think y'all doing.' [People] assumed shooting and it was a stampede," another claimed.

"@Saweetie don't ever come back to Chicago babe. You caused us [way too] much harm than needed," a third user tweeted.

But many came to Saweetie's defense, pointing out that the rapper was relatively calm on stage and gave no indication that there was a possible shooting.

"Nothing she said made them run! They [saw a] commotion and ran off their own instinct," one Instagram user commented on The Shade Room's post.

"No way folks are blaming her for this. [Shaking my head]," another wrote.

A third supporter added, "She was not wrong. She spotted action that wasn't right and called them out on it. How the rest responded to that is on them."

"To be honest if hearing 'I know yall aint doing what I think yall doing' causes you to immediately turn and run then maybe you shouldn't be outside or may be you shouldn't be at that event in the first place," a fourth user pointed out.

Another user offered a simple explanation for the stampede, writing: "This ain't nothing but a case of 'Black [people] gonna run if we see ONE Black person run.'"

Saweetie also defended herself, explaining that she paused her performance because she allegedly saw a "fight" break out in the crowd.

"The crowd did look crazy, which is why I hope everyone got home safe," the rapper responded to a critic.

"Also, I could've [gone] home after the fight broke out, but I stayed [and] waited after 2 [Chainz] performed. I went back on stage to finish my set [because] I care... [You] clearly don't like me so why [did] you stay for the rest of my set when the festival was clearly over?"

Saweetie also accused people of spreading fake "negative propaganda" against her after X account My Mixtapez posted footage from her set and wrote: "Fans in Chicago take off running after Saweetie started performing on stage."

She tweeted, "This was a serious matter but y'all are too obsessed with creating this negative propaganda toward me."

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