Tory Lanez is one of the many Toronto natives reacting to the shooting death of blossoming 21-year-old rapper Houdini. According to CP24 News in Toronto, Houdini and two others were shot after gunfire erupted in broad daylight outside a hotel in Toronto’s Entertainment District on Tuesday (May 26).
Lanez quickly took to Instagram upon hearing the news and shared a trifecta of photos both with and without Houdini.
He wrote in the caption, “I’m trying , and I can’t fight the tears from falling .. i can’t even find the words for a speech right now .. YALL TOOK MY FUCKING NIGGA AND ALL HE WANTED TO DO WAS LIVE !!!!!! #RIP Houdini 4 Ever!”
Meek Mill also mourned Houdini on his Instagram page, writing, “Rocked WIT YOUNGBULL VIBE AS A PERSON RIP! PRAYERS TO HIS SIDE!”
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters at the scene,“This was very brazen.”
Multiple calls about the sound of gunfire at King Street and Blue Jays Way flooded in sometime after 4 p.m. local time. Once officers arrived at the scene, they discovered a male victim suffering from gunshot wounds. The two other victims were located soon after.
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Police said all three people were “rushed” to the hospital with gunshot wounds. Houdini and a 15-year-old boy were transported in critical condition, while a 27-year-old woman was transported in serious condition. Houdini died of his injuries.
This marks the fourth murder of an up-and-coming rapper this month. Brooklyn rappers Nick Blixky and KJ Balla were fatally shot in separate incidents earlier this month.
Several members of Hip Hop community paid tribute to Houdini on social media.
Check out some of the posts below.
RIP Houdini. Didn’t know him or know of him but sad.
Guess he magically disappeared off the face of the planet.
wow not another one. This dumb ass gun violence gotta stop.
Why you guys only post artist from my city unless they die ?
u had like 3, now 2
Toronto losing more and more rappers, smh
R.I.P…Toronto need to stop the gun foolishness.
Toronto is becoming a shitty city. If not guns, it will be knives. I’d not knives, bombs. Guns aren’t the issue. The types of people in the city are.
I said at the end of last year there will be more dead rappers. Looks like I wasn’t wrong unfortunately. I expect more by the end of this year. We need to do better.
Who is “we”? I didn’t kill any rappers this year.
Oh shit. One Canadian shot another with a musket or some shit, now Bory Lamez gets to act like he lives in Chiraq. I’m sure Drakes new shit will be about how he runs a Mexican drug cartel, and has been forever, so now they can all use the N word.
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You’re an idiot. We get our guns from you assholes with your BS gun laws. Last year Toronto had 292 murders, Chicago had 490. Way more in Chicago, but it doesnt mean 292 is low. And considering our gun laws are more strict than yours, it’s actually fucked up that it is even that high. I have lost friends due to gun violence (4 of them under the age of 19) so to me your comment is not funny, and actually quite sad (it was already trash anyway). So thank you, you ignorant fuck, for your brilliant insight into what happened and what will come.
P.S. Drake is trash but he is on top of the music world so you can suck it
Toronto has over a million people 292 people died and you knew 4 of them? Your probably the murderer yourself. Whats the odds of that? CSI nees to investigate this perp lol
You sound like Trump .Not 292 people murdered with guns last year . Toronto over 2 mill., But that probably doesn’t fit your uneducated Agenda . In your case the N word is Nutbar !
Your a pussy from Canaduh ey? Stfu you Canuck bitch no one is afraid of puzzy ass Canadians
But why react so shitty when someone points out your comment was stupid? Acknowledge your comment wasn’t well thought out, it was borderline retarded, and keep it moving. When you attack a country that you likely have no knowledge of you look like an asshole. Canada is the quite guy that doesn’t say shit, nobody messes with the quiet guy for a reason.
Your health care sucks, your weather sucks, are you French or Canadian? Your food is garbage your favorite rapper is a child actor your country has no backbone all the rappers from Canaduh get money and move to California because Canaduh is boring and lame your flag has a leaf on it you dont even have your own cars I never heard of a Canadian car before you watch American T.V shows your contry never invented anythinf significant you think poutine is good you call your Persident “Prime Minister” should I keep going?
And don’t forget, they’ve been jacking our swagger since day 1. They’re soooo obsessed with us but then they turn around and talk shit every chance they get. They love/hate us like some crazy ex-girlfriend lol.
Your health care is only good for those who can afford it, we at least treat our citizens like human beings. You guys get oil from us (when you arent bust destroying other countries), you continue to enslave black and poor ppl at a ridiculous rate, your cops are so scared of you guys that they are killing their own ppl on the regular. Our big cities are much cleaner, less litter and less of a urine stench on the subway. Population is much healthier too, less percentage of diabetes and obesity and everything. Your health care is great but everybody is sick, how fucked up is that? I dont like singing Drake, but rap Drake was good and nobody can deny that. Not my favourite rapper, but considering he been running the game for the past 10 years maybe you guys should produce something to knock him off. We have winter, so lots of ppl move to the US and that’s fine. No earthquakes here, no hurricanes here so I would gladly have all 4 seasons if it meant I didnt have to worry about natural disasters. Poor ppl have better living conditions here, and we invented basketball so every time one of those guys makes something out of themselves playing that game, or stayed out of trouble by playing that game, or made friends by playing that game, they should stand for the Canadian national anthem. Nobody likes American cars, only Americans so keep that shit. We protected your slaves, so again, you’re welcome. And to everyone who wears a Canadian flag when they travel because they dont want harassment (the world hates you), you’re welcome too.
If y’all are so great then why don’t you establish your own sports leagues and stop trying to compete in ours? Ask your inuit population how you “…treat citizens like human beings”. Bet you get a different answer. Make your own music and movies and keep em up there, if you’re so superior to us lowly creatures. Hop off our hip hop sites and hop off our dick while you’re at it.
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Only shows that gun laws are stupid and only restrict law abiding citizens. Germany and Japan have crazy gun laws and had a mass shooting recently. In Japan the dude even had a machine gun. You would think since homicide is illegal nobody would get killed anymore. I mean, since its a law right?
Those places are all much safer than the US when it comes to gun violence. Gun violence is the exception, not the norm.. in the US it’s constant and throughout most of the country. Your logic makes no sense. Bad guys will always find ways to get whatever they want, the laws just make it harder. Toronto has less homicide than chicago and more ppl so the percentages say it is much safer. But being safer doesnt mean it is necessarily safe, just safer. I would much rather live by these rules than yours, and if you guys had similar rules our world would be a better place.
The result of glorifying violence and crime … hard times doesn’t give you the right to protect your pain and suffering onto others … maybe “the culture” that thinks so highly of itself should take a step back and do some self-analysis … thoughts to everyone who has lost someone through ignorance, hate, and envy
exactly. Men get killed and Women turned into sl*ts.
bruh..did you ever listen to any of his music? Stfu then
Toronto eh……………………………….
Society at large doesn’t care. They made their choice by entering a lifestyle that is quite proud about the fact that they do not cooperate with the police, to investigate, prosecute or prevent any crimes like this from happening. They’ll deal with it themselves, and then complain about all the rappers being killed. What is anyone else supposed to do about it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Funny how you can already tell who wrote this article just by reading it lmao wack. She said “several members of the hip hop community” but I only see like 3 posts lol your a joke. Rip
Several mean more than one dummy.
Sorry to hear that yet another black man lost his life to senseless violence. We are our own worst enemy. Put the guns down
Seems like allot of Toronto rappers meet the same fate. Something has got to change..
Shot AND killed ? Or was he killed because of the shots ? Read a fucking book and learn better grammar fool. SMH
They really put houdini in the ground and filmed it in HD for your viewing pleasure on cctv!
Where’s BLM at?