Tory Lanez is defending himself after being accused of staging a video in which he took a stand against colorism. The outspoken artist has denied participating in a publicity stunt in response to allegations made by the model in the footage.
“this is the one and only time ima address this,” Lanez wrote on Instagram. “i went out of my way to bring awareness to an important topic of discussion that never gets addressed. the internet has a funny way of tryna take the light off of truthful shit . IF this was a publicity stunt, why would i be doing it for someone elses music video? why wouldnt i have paid the females involved? And if I did pick both girls then how come there’s only shots of me with the ebony model and not the other one ?”
He continued, “Mind y’all this video shoot happened 3 months ago and a behind the scenes camera man DM’d it to me the other day.. All parties that were involved know exactly what happened in the 30 minutes that I was at the shoot . Whether or not they wanna be truth or not . Much love .”
In the video, Lanez stops a darker skinned model from being switched for one with lighter skin. His statement was issued Monday (June 17) after the model in the clip, who goes by @sultryshen on Instagram, claimed he was lying.
“Tory asked for both me and the girl to do solo shots,” she said, according to The Shade Room. “When it was her turn he said cut the video to make it appear as if it had something to do with race. I know the directors very well and they made me the lead girl in that video and many others.”
She added, “He actually never talked to me on that set and kept telling her how beautiful she was.”
However, Mia Rothwell — the other model in the video — has publicly backed Lanez’s version of the events. In a lengthy Instagram post, she refutes any notion it was staged.
“I’m not sure where people are going saying it was staged because it wasn’t,” she wrote. “They are talking the most amount of shit.”
Check out her entire explanation below.
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Cant stand you fake hiphop sites…always report bullshit but when a fire ass bizzy bone songs drops yall never say shit..hes already had 3 singles i. The last month all fucking fire and yall didnt say shit
Yea bro been hearing his latest stuff..hes going hard sounding better than he ever has too..thats whats crazy
Yea bro been hearing his latest stuff..hes going hard sounding better than he ever has too..thats whats crazy
Bro shut up, nobody cares about bone thugs stop trying to push your grandpa music on everyone else.
So you gonna call yourself a grandpa when you hit 30 too ?
Just because some music is garbage doesn’t mean someone is old. Your dumbass dancing to this “new” shit surrounded by your homies haha
He’s the Jussie Smollett of video vixens. Lol captain save a dark-skinned hoe has been exposed.
Who you going to believe him or the Model. I believe the MODEL
Anyone excited about Royce 5’9’s next on-air freestyle?
Why are so many celebrities creating fake racism? They aren’t experiencing it naturally, so they are creating false events. That’s sad. Yes, racism does exist. It always will. But most Americans, and most people in general, are not racist, and just want to life a happy and peaceful life. Where does racism come from? The media and powers that be. They love to divide us. If racism stopped existing, that wouldn’t be good for the media. The division is good for them. Evil bastards. Fuck the media.
It seems that every time I see your name on this site you’re always commenting on racism. Is that all you come here for? Are you even a fan of Hip Hop or do you just want to come here to vent your own personal ideas of race? Not trolling but I’m actually curious. Please elaborate my friend
Lol, no. I like hiphop music. That’s why I come to this site. This article is LITERALLY about racism, and my comment is not off topic at all. If you ACTUALLY look at all of my comments, you’d likely see I talk about all kinds of different things. Also, I’ve seen many people copy my name, and post using CHRIS as well. This site is full of trolls, I’m not one of them. So, yeah. This article is literally about what I talked about, and I basically said racism = bad, and for some reason that bothers you lol.
Why are you always on this site talking about racism?
Goodbye
Dark model all mad and stuff. She should be happy.