Tory Lanez Trivia | 30 facts about the rapper

Tory Lanez is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter, who received initial recognition from the mixtape Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story.

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1. His real name is Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson.
2. He was born on July 27th, 1992), and he is known professionally as Tory Lanez.
3. He is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter.
4. He received initial recognition from the mixtape Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story, released in August 2013.
5. In 2015, Tory Lanez signed to record producer Benny Blanco’s Mad Love Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.
6. 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.
7. In 2018, Lanez released his second and third studio albums, Memories Don’t Die and Love Me Now?
8. His fourth studio album Chixtape 5 (2019) peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard 200.
9. Tory Lanez received a Grammy Award nomination for his 2016 song “Luv” as well as four Juno Awards over his career.
10. In 2020, Lanez released his fifth studio album Daystar, which debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200.
11. 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.
12. On August 8, 2023, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
13. His friend Hakeem gave him the nickname ‘Lanez’ due to the rapper’s troublemaking tendencies.
14. Ηe used to run into roads and play in the lanes, without looking at the traffic.
15. When he was 17-years-old, Tory sent his «Play For Keeps» mixtape to Drake, betting Drizzy $10k if he wasn’t impressed. Well, Drake never responded, and this is how their six years rivalry began. Drake took a dig at Tory in «Summer Sixteen», while Tory Lanez hit back claiming calling Toronto «The Six» wasn’t cool.
16. His remix of Drake’s «Controlla» has over 8.3 million plays on Soundcloud.
17. He lost his mother when he was only 11 years-old due a rare disease. Her name was Luella.
18. He was once booed off stage mid-performance.
19. Ed Sheeran released a cover of Tory’s «Say It» on Soundcloud, and it has more than 3 million listens.
20. Tory’s father is from Barbados, and his mother Luella was from the Caribbean island Curacao.
21. He is good friends with Meek Mill.
22. The pair even recorded a track on Meek’s new album «DC4toget» her, entitled «Litty». In general they get along, but the bonus is that have one «enemy» in common, and that’s Drake.
23. His debut album «I Told You» has no features.
24. As of August 2023, Tory Lanez’s net worth is estimated to be around $4 million.
25. His 7-year beef with Drake was finished as soon as they took one picture in 2017 in NYC and the world was watching.
26. It was now widely known until he showed up to court with a young boy on his arm that Tory Lanez was a father.
27. His son’s name is Kai, and he was born in 2017. He was featured on the cover of his album «The New Toronto 3» in 2020.
28. e has more than 1.6 million followers on Twitter, but his Instagram account is bulging at the seams, with fans at 4.7 million followers. He’s an artist who is loved by hordes of followers. He became even more popular with his Instagram live Quarantine Radio during the covid pandemic.
29. The singer kept updating his followers and insisting on his innocence while the trial between him and Megan was ongoing until the court barred him from speaking on the case on social media.
30. Before he became famous, he was discovered by Sean Kingston