Tory Lanez claimed he was discriminated against while shopping at the high end Canadian boutique Holt Renfrew, but rather than take his money elsewhere (which would have been the logical solution), he instead decided to drop $35,000 in the store as his “fuck you” to the employee. Or as he put it on Twitter: “35,00 in HOLT RENFREW … cuz this Nigga tried to play me like I was broke.”
Clearly, the Grammy Award-nominated artist missed his Pretty Woman moment. In the classic 1990 romantic comedy, Julia Roberts’ character gets shunned by a snobby clothing store for wearing her “hooker” clothes only for her to return the next day having spent thousands of dollars elsewhere. “You work on commission, right? Big mistake. Big. Huge,” Roberts told the clerk in a moment of glory.
In a series of since-deleted tweets, he reportedly said: “I gotta get him. Look at his ass. Say hello. Yeah, we balled out your shit. We walked in the store…he ain’t think we was gonna buy nothing. We balled out his shit. We Gucci down. We Louis Vuitton down…”
Lanez also tweeted in defense of his loose spending, writing: “It’s not the fact that we spent $35K in there, we were already going there to do that. It’s the fact that HE didn’t get the percentage.”
But the internet wasn’t having it. It was undeniably a bonehead move and Lanez quickly got called out on it by countless users, including the always vocal DJ Akademiks.
Check out some of the best reactions below.
Clothing store 1 lanez 0 hold that L real close at night god damn
Dude had 1 decent song and spending $35k at a store… That is an L on its on. In 2019, Lanez gonna be on a HHDX article about taxes and bankruptcy. Enjoy your clothes and Italian Exotic car you just had to have. When you get on drake’s level then you can ball out
True. Dont forget about the $200k car to keep up appearances and $50k chain and watch
how does that motherfvcker have $35k anyway??
That’s because he wasn’t discriminated against & he knows it. But these days, racism sells & equals headlines.. Clowns do clown things..
that was quite stupid of Tory…why not just go to a store that welcomes you. Tory, you sure showed them, but at the end of the day, the store still go their money and you outchea lookin stupid.
This is why everybody IS NOT suppose to have money! He will be broke soon enough. Have a great day
This had to be an emotional decision. You support the business that discriminated against you. If anything he should of made a post for people to boycott that establishment. There probably thinking thanks n you really showed us. Thats also a problem with many Black people where we want to support businesses that don’t really want our business.
They need to make a new season of The Boondocks. This would DEFINITELY make one of the episodes. We need to start a petition y’all. These rappers and R&B acts have provided enough material for a new season.
Yes, yes and double yes!
They need to bring it back like they did Family Guy.
The white man’s ice is ALWAYS colder…
Black people are weird