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<\/figure>\nTory Lanez is releasing new music better than the quality of previous imprisoned artists, just one problem says The King of Prison Hip Hop, it\u2019s not true.<\/h2>\n
On August 8, 2023, Canadian Hip Hop artist Daystar Peterson, who goes by the stage name Tory Lanez<\/a>, was sentenced in the Los Angeles County Superior Court to ten years in prison after being found guilty by a jury of shooting American rapper Megan Pete, who goes by the stage name Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>.<\/p>\n In July of 2024, Lanez began to release unreleased music in a series he has called Lost Tapes, such as Girls In The Room (Lost Tapes 2020)<\/a>, and\u00a0 L.M.B.B (Lost Tapes 2018)<\/a>. In March of 2024, Forbes <\/em>notes the 2024 rerelease of Lanez 2015, Traphouse<\/em><\/a> <\/em>debuted on Billboard\u2019s Hot R&B Songs chart at #23, and had jumped to #15, \u201cTory Lanez Earns His Biggest Hit In More Than A Year On One Chart<\/a>.\u201d But Lanez is not content with rereleasing Lost Tapes<\/em>, nor releasing old music, but wants to give his fans new music, he calls the #FreeTory playlist.<\/p>\n After about 20-something to 30-something fuck-ups and mistakes, me and my engineer have finally figure out how to record music over the jail phone and still keep the quality as professional as I had it on the street,\u201d he said in a recorded call posted to his Instagram on Wednesday (July 24). \u201cIt\u2019s over. I done cracked the fucking code, man. This means that not even these prison walls can stop me from dropping new music. It\u2019s crazy!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That being said, I\u2019m about to start dropping hot heaps of coal on y\u2019all head top. I\u2019m dropping the all new \u2018Free Tory\u2019 playlist \u2013 it\u2019s gon\u2019 be updated every week with new music that I\u2019m recording from prison in real time. This is the first of its kind and although God has already shown me that this moment is only temporary , it speaks testimony to the fact that no matter where they put me they can\u2019t lock down my spirit, my ambition, my soul my passion nor my destiny!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n But the Canadian\u2019s claims he has broken the cheat code on how to release quality music from the American prison system is a slap in the face to all those independent artists who have been doing so for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nearly five-years-ago in, \u201c\u2018Spoken Floz,\u2019 Prisoners Retake Over of Hip Hop<\/a>,\u201d we did a deep dive on Rap\u2019s pre Hip Hop prison origins; and nearly 10-years-ago in, \u201cFEATURED ARTIST DONALD \u2018C-NOTE\u2019 HOOKER<\/a>,\u201d we observed, \u201cIf the 2.2 million American prison population were a city, it would be the fourth largest behind New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, all known for very vibrant art scenes. There are lots of new and exciting forms of art being developed behind bars to which C-Note is a part of, like \u201cPrison Hip Hop.\u2019\u201d As the largest multimedia source of prison news and art across multiple web platforms, we have been keeping an eye on the rap music production by prisoners, including publishing their music.<\/p>\n Compare our 2021 release of Barrio<\/em><\/a> <\/em>by God\u2019s Goon, to Tory Lanez\u2019s 2024 release of \u201cWish I Never Met You\u201d [Prison Tapes<\/em>]<\/a>, now ask yourself, \u201cHas Tory Lanez substantially reinvented the quality of the musical sound coming from inside prison?\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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