Incarcerated rapper Tory Lanez has released two new songs, which some fans believe are casting insinuations at Meghan Thee Stallion. The songs are Cell 245 and Wish I Never Met You.
Last month, the Canadian rapper announced his Prison Tapes series, saying he had “cracked the code”, of how he and his engineer could still record music over the jail phone and still keep the quality as “professional.”.
He promised would add new sounds to a playlist that would be updated weekly.
“It speaks testimony to the fact that no matter where they put me, they can’t lock down my spirit, my ambition, my soul my passion nor my destiny!” she stated.
Cell 245 is more or less a reflection on his life and alludes to and also highlights the ongoing appeal of his conviction.
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Tory Lanez was sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. He 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.
He was first discovered by Sean Kingston and received initial recognition for his mixtape Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story, released in August 2013. In 2015, he signed with record producer Benny Blanco’s Mad Love Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.
His debut studio album, I Told You (2016), explored alternative R&B and was commercially successful. It was supported by the singles Say It and Luv, which reached numbers 23 and 19, respectively, on the US Billboard Hot 100.
In June this year, Megan Thee Stallion, who has been on her Hot Summer Girl Tour also released a new body of work titled Meghan, which some of her fans considered a kind of “rebirth” after she managed to bring closure to the Tory Lanez shooting case.
“This is music I would like if I wasn’t Megan Thee Stallion. I don’t want to say I’m tapping into other genres. I’m just tapping into other sounds. But it’s still very much Megan Thee Stallion,” she said about the project.
