Tory Lanez explains how he used perceived Drake diss to help his career.
According to Toronto rapper Tory Lanez, he took what some may have dismissed as a negative situation and turned into a positive for his career. The negative situation the Canadian musician was asked about in a newly-released interview with Forbes was Drake’s “Summer Sixteen.”
On the song, Drake possibly takes aim at Tory Lanez, as he raps: “All you boys in the new Toronto wanna be me a little.”
Rather than dwell on the diss or take a jab of his own, Lanez says he chose to turn “shit into sugar,” instead.
“When the record came out, I turned shit into sugar,” Tory Lanez said. “Everybody looked at it as a negative, but I looked at it as a positive. Last month, I made $20,000 off of The New Toronto merch alone.”
Tory Lanez also spoke on taking a lengthy break from his music career to rebrand and observe other musicians.
“It was like six years of watching everyone else around me do their thing because they had major labels to back them, but I’m happy the way it went,” he said. “I didn’t have a cosign. I was glad that I was able to start fresh. People knew me, fell off of me and then I had to re-brand myself and come back, and sometimes when people do their re-branding, they don’t come back.”
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He needs a new name…Aubrey Future LaFlame? Future Drake-Travis? Drake FutureScott?
This niggais not from Toronto, hes from he burbs ,, should slap the 6 out his mouth, he says he doesn’t like Drake calling Toronto the 6,,,,, nigga u ain’tfrom the 6,, so what does it matter ,, bitchass thot
Fuck off nigga, u think these dumb fucks even know where Brampton is. Suck a dick ur favourite rapper grew up in a big house in Richmond Hill pays east end niggas for back. Tory got da West riding for him nigga uz a bitch ass nigga and if u a real one u know real niggas from toronto dont call it the 6 forever be the dot.
Who cares?…. Relax, it’s just rap lol
I think the point he was trying to make is that tory talks about choppers and drug dealing and claiming sets when he’s really not about that….drake is at least being real by being himself n didn’t he bring two gangs together for the headlines video? And tory has called Toronto the 6 a bunch of times stop it
Drake worships Satan
So thaaaats who he’s singing about
Toronto rappers are fucking whack. Drake should kill himself for trying to make Toronto look hood.