In February 2010, Kingston contacted Lanez, telling him to meet up with him, during Justin Bieber's tour and later got him to perform on there live. Sean Kingston was interested in Lanez after seeing a video of him freestyling over Lloyd Banks' " Beamer, Benz, or Bentley". While living in South Florida, he began directing some of his music videos, and posted them on his YouTube channel. In 2009, Lanez released his debut mixtape T.L 2 T.O. However, he had never received any vocal training. At the age of 17, Lanez began singing, which he found an interest in. At the age of 16, Lanez dropped out of the tenth grade, and he would begin performing songs at the outdoor concerts. He started rapping again, giving himself a nickname, Notorious, which is a reference to the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., whom he idolized, and adopted into his new moniker "Tory Lanez". It changed the person that I am today", he says. That's what made me a man, having to fend for myself and being in a situation where there is no dad, no grandma and no mom to help you. From like fifteen to eighteen, I was just fighting them. I came into the house and I didn't realize how things worked. "I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. Since she refused to take care of him, he was on his own at the age of 15. Lanez then was forced to move to Toronto with his grandmother. In 2006, he was sent to live with his cousin Dahir Abib, Orane Forrest, in Jamaica, Queens, New York because of his behavior issues. The nickname "Lanez" was given to him by Hakeem, as a comment on Lanez's thrill-seeking tendencies, that sometimes saw him mucking around in the street, not looking for traffic and playing in the lanes. Lanez's father later remarried and the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where Lanez met his friend Hakeem, who at the time was a janitor. Following his mother's death, his father began working as an ordained minister and missionary, causing them both to move frequently throughout the United States. The family was based in Montreal, before moving to Miami, Florida. Early lifeĭaystar Shemuel Shua Peterson was born on July 27, 1992, in Brampton, Ontario, to a Bajan father, Sonstar, and a mother from Curaçao, Luella. On August 8, 2023, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. On December 23, 2022, Lanez was convicted in the Los Angeles County Superior Court of three felony charges related to shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. In 2020, Lanez released his fifth studio album Daystar, which debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200. Lanez received a Grammy Award nomination for his 2016 song " Luv" as well as four Juno Awards over his career. In 2018, Lanez released his second and third studio albums, Memories Don't Die and Love Me Now? His fourth studio album Chixtape 5 (2019) peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard 200. Lanez's debut studio album, I Told You (2016), included the singles " Say It" and " Luv", which peaked at number 23 and 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. In 2015, Tory Lanez signed to record producer Benny Blanco's Mad Love Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. He received initial recognition from the mixtape Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story, released in August 2013. Stallion accused Lanez of shooting her in the foot after she exited a vehicle they had been riding in following an argument.ĬNN’s Taylor Romine and Elizabeth Wolfe contributed to this report.Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson (born July 27, 1992), known professionally as Tory Lanez, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter. The jury convicted him on all three counts. Lanez had pleaded not guilty to assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, according to prosecutors. “Tough times don’t last, tough people do,” Lanez said. This is nothing but another moment where my back is against the wall and I refuse to stop fighting till I come out victorious,” Lanez added. “I’ve faced adversity my whole life and every time it looked like I would lose, I came out on top. Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for the 2020 shooting, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office told CNN. Regardless of how they try to spin my words, I have always maintained my innocence and I always will,” Lanez said on Instagram.
I will never never let no jail time eliminate me. “I have never let a hard time intimidate me. Days after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting rapper Megan Thee Stallion, rapper Tory Lanez took to Instagram to say he maintains his innocence.
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