Drake has been accused by Megan Thee Stallion of utilizing her on his most recent song, Circo Loco, as “clout.” Many people, including Megan, believe that the reference in the 21 Savage collaboration to a lady who is “lying about having injections, but she is still a stallion” refers to her.
Rapper Megan, who was born in Texas, claims that at a party in Hollywood in 2020, Tory Lanez shot at her feet, injuring her.
In light of Tory’s impending trial, which he will contest, BBC Newsbeat examines how we arrived at this situation.
The Event
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On July 12, 2020, Kylie Jenner will host a celebration in the Hollywood Hills that will mark the start of everything.
As they were leaving the event, Megan, real name Megan Pete, and Tory Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, are claimed to have gotten into a fight.
At a hearing in December of last year, Los Angeles Police testified that Megan yelled to be let out of the car and that she overheard Tory telling her to dance.
He then allegedly pulled out a firearm and started shooting. The Savage singer originally claimed to have stepped on shattered glass and wounded herself, according to authorities.
Later, she made the initial claim that Tory had shot her on Instagram. Before the allegations occurred, the couple was in a relationship but later broke it off.
He has refuted the allegations of using a weapon in an assault and doing so while driving. Additionally, he must keep at least 100 yards (91.4 meters) away from Megan.
Fired Guns
Later, Megan Thee Stallion spoke about her wounds, claiming that she required surgery to have bullets from her foot removed because they had missed her bones and tendons.
She earlier remarked, “I know my mama, my daddy, and my granny had to be looking out for me with that one, because where the bullets impacted, they missed everything, but they were in there.
Later, both artists included references to the argument in their works.
In the line “Megan folks tryna frame me for a shooting,” Tory hinted that the accusations against him were untrue.
In the same song, he questions how someone could be shot in the foot and not damage any bones or tendons, casting doubt on the shooting.
A few months later, Megan recorded her song, Shots Fired, in which she asserted that she was the one “speakin’ facts” and accused Tory of lying “just to save face.”
“I turned into the bad guy”
People began picking sides as the argument heated up, with Drake emerging as the most recent to support Tory.
Following the internet spread of insults and memes, Megan came forward and said that “in a way, I became the villain.”
She has had to continually defend herself after being accused of fabricating her account of being shot, raising the possibility that misogynoir, or misogyny against black women, maybe the cause of her targeting.
Jojo and Kehlani are two musicians who have backed Megan.
And last week, several well-known black women, including Tarana Burke, the creator of the #MeToo movement, published an open letter in support of Megan.
You deserve to be heard, believed, and most importantly, safe, they wrote. “You don’t deserve any of this, Megan.”
She claims nonetheless that many have called her “aggressive” and a “snitch.”
About a year after the tragedy, DaBaby, who wrote the song Cry Baby with Megan, received backlash for inviting Tory on stage following her performance at the Rolling Loud Festival.
What is Drake doing here?
Although the two Canadians have not always agreed on things, they are now supposed to get along well. He hasn’t addressed the criticism heard surrounding the track in the media.
Megan Thee Stallion responded angrily on Twitter when his new album Her Loss, which features Circo Loco, was released, writing: “since when is it okay to joke about women getting shot?”
She went on to criticize rappers who “jump on a black lady when she says one of y’all homeboys abused her” and claim that “weak… conspiracy theories” had been tied to her identity.
Drake has been charged with entering for “clout.”
What’s the next step for us?
Since the song was released, Tory has kept quiet, tweeting only a shrugging emoji.
He has been under house arrest since last week in anticipation of his eagerly anticipated trial, which is scheduled to begin in a Los Angeles court next month.
After Tory informed the court that his defense attorney was preoccupied with other affairs, the hearings that were scheduled to start in September were postponed.
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