1. In 2015, Tory Lanez signed with record producer Benny Blanco's Mad Love Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.
47 Facts About Tory Lanez
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Tory Lanez then released his 1980s-inspired sixth album, Alone at Prom, followed by his seventh, Sorry 4 What until his incarceration.
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Tory Lanez was found guilty of first-degree assault with a firearm, discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, and having a concealed firearm in a vehicle.
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Tory Lanez's father later remarried and the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where Tory Lanez met his friend Hakeem, who at the time was a janitor.
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The nickname "Tory Lanez" was given to him by Hakeem, as a comment on Tory Lanez's thrill-seeking tendencies, that sometimes saw him mucking around in the street, not looking for traffic and playing in the lanes.
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In 2006, Tory Lanez was sent to live with his cousins Dahir Abib, Orane Forrest, in Jamaica, Queens, New York because of his behavior issues.
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Tory Lanez then was forced to move to Toronto with his grandmother.
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At the age of 16, Tory Lanez dropped out of the tenth grade, and he would begin performing songs at the outdoor concerts.
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At the age of 17, Tory Lanez began singing, which he found an interest in.
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Sean Kingston was interested in Tory Lanez after seeing a video of him freestyling over Lloyd Banks' "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley".
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In February 2010, Kingston contacted Tory Lanez requesting a meetup while on tour with Justin Bieber, resulting in Tory Lanez performing on the tour.
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In 2010, Tory Lanez released the mixtapes, Just Landed, One Verse One Hearse, Playing for Keeps and Mr 1 Verse Killah.
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In 2011, Tory Lanez signed a record deal with Kingston's Time is Money Entertainment and released a trio of mixtapes: Mr Peterson, Chixtape, and Swavey.
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Tory Lanez later left the label to be an independent artist.
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On June 2,2014, Tory Lanez released the song, "Teyana", as a tribute to singer Teyana Taylor.
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On June 6,2014, Tory Lanez released "The Godfather", a song to announce that he was going to start a series called, Fargo Fridays, only releasing songs, albums, or videos on Fridays on HotNewHipHop.
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Tory Lanez kicked off his first headlining tour, the "Lost Cause Tour", in conjunction with the mixtape Lost Cause.
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On February 27,2015, Tory Lanez revealed that he was going to release a collaboration EP with the WeDidIt Records producers on April 6.
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On May 8,2015, Lanez released another song, titled "Ric Flair" featuring Rory Trustory.
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On June 19,2015, Tory Lanez announced that the EP would be called, Cruel Intentions and released on June 26,2015.
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On July 15,2015, Tory Lanez released the first single off his debut album, titled "Say It".
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December 25,2015, Tory Lanez released the two mixtapes, Chixtape III and The New Toronto.
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On March 4,2016, Tory Lanez released the song, "Tim Duncan" as a part of his Fargo Fridays series.
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Tory Lanez released the song, "Real Addresses" the next week.
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On May 6,2016, Tory Lanez released two songs, "For Real" and "Unforgetful" as a part of the Fargo Friday series.
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On July 29,2016, Tory Lanez released the official second single "Luv" on iTunes.
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Tory Lanez revealed that his album title would be I Told You.
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On March 2,2018, Tory Lanez released his second studio album Memories Don't Die.
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On March 20,2020, Tory Lanez teamed up with Jamaican dancehall artist Buju Banton for a remix of "Trust".
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On May 14,2020, Tory Lanez released the single "Temperature Rising", via his own One Umbrella imprint, marking his first release as an independent artist, following his departure from Interscope Records.
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On September 25,2020, Tory Lanez surprise-released his fifth album, Daystar, his first project since departing Interscope earlier that year.
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In 2025, he released Peterson, which was recorded entirely while in prison and utilizing AI technology, and Tory Lanez has described it as the "first ever in-real-time prison album".
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Tory Lanez posted a video in response where he denied relation to Drake and challenged the rapper to listen to his second mixtape Playing for Keeps.
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Tory Lanez offered to give Drake $10,000 if he did not like it.
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In 2015, Tory Lanez mocked Drake during a radio freestyle and expressed his dislike of the use of "the 6", a nickname for Toronto that had been popularized by Drake.
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In November 2018, during an Instagram Live session, Tory Lanez claimed that he's a better rapper than American rapper Joyner Lucas.
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Shortly after his beef with Joyner Lucas ensued, New York rapper Don Q dropped a battle track titled "I'm Not Joyner", alleging that Tory Lanez was stealing Q's lyrics.
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Tory Lanez fired back with a track called "Dom Queen", before Q responded with another diss track.
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Tory Lanez asked for legal and physical custody for their son.
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On July 12,2020, after leaving a house party where there had been an argument that resulted in violence, Tory Lanez was arrested in Hollywood Hills and charged with carrying a concealed weapon in his vehicle.
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Tory Lanez's team denied this, saying that they would investigate who was behind the fake emails and would take appropriate action.
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In October 2020, Tory Lanez was officially charged with felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, personal use of a firearm, and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
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Tory Lanez faced an allegation that he personally inflicted great bodily injury with a gun.
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Tory Lanez was ordered to surrender any guns he owns.
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Tory Lanez was released shortly after on an increased bond of $350,000.
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On December 23,2022, Tory Lanez was convicted in a jury trial on three felony charges in respect to the shooting: assault with a semiautomatic handgun, having a loaded and unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and gross negligence in discharging his firearm.
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Tory Lanez, who was tried in Los Angeles, was taken to jail immediately following the conviction.