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Tory Lanez has found himself the butt of a viral joke after a tweet he made before heading to prison has blown up after him being denied a new trial.
On December 7, 2022, the Canadian star posted what he assumed would be his “last tweet” before presumably being vindicated.
“I’m going to leave this here one more time …and watch how it ages,” Tory wrote. “NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER … AND EVERY TONGUE THAT RISES AGAINST ME IN JUDGEMENT SHALL BE CONDEMNED u sit and watch now …. And don’t ever question the GOD I serve again. This is my last tweet.”
Check out Tory’s tweet below:
However, three weeks later on December 23 he was ultimately found guilty in connection to the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. Now, after a Los Angeles judge denied a motion for a new trial filed by the rapper on Tuesday (May 9), his past tweet has been making the rounds online.
One person noted that the weapon did in fact prosper against the singer: “the weapon you formed against megan prospered to be against you,” they wrote.
“weapons prospered, you’re convicted, denied retrial, beyoncé renaissance tour starts today and GOD IS GOOD !” another person tweeted, with a clip of Megan Thee Stallion twerking.
“I love revisiting this tweet. the sun outside feels nice today,” one user wrote, while another one tweeted: “brrrrrrr it looks like the weapons against you are starting to prosper.”
Check out more tweets below:
the weapon formed AND IT PROSPERED https://t.co/YaRgh8pHyUpic.twitter.com/cqFO80lAGa
— 〖ivy⁷ misses her 2seok〗 (@_peachyjoonie_) May 10, 2023
Prior to his failed attempt at appeal, the rapper pleaded with the judge to not “ruin my life.”
Lanez’ legal new counsel Matthew Barhoma and Jose Baez, argued that his previous defense attorney, George Mgdesyan, was “ineffective counsel” and that Tory’s DNA was never discovered on the gun, but it ultimately wasn’t enough to sway the judge.
Even though he was denied a new trial, Lanez can still appeal his conviction and “may actually have an argument, especially re: ineffective counsel,” Los Angeles Times writer James Queally tweeted. “But the bar for a verdict to be set aside before sentencing is incredibly high.”
He currently faces up to 22 years and eight months in prison, as well as subsequent deportation to his native Canada.
Meanwhile, Megan Thee Stallion has revealed that Beyoncé made her change her verse on the remix of “Savage” before it dropped.
Reneé Rapp is seen as a “huge inspiration” by SZA.
The 25-year-old artist performed SZA’s Good Days in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, accompanied by two acoustic guitarists and a harp player. SZA, 35, was deeply moved by the rendition.
She posted a short video of the moment on Instagram Stories and wrote: “Renee is a HUGE inspiration, energy, voice spirit.”
During her chat with the BBC, Renee shared her thoughts about the track. She said: “I mean, I love SZA. I mean, she was one of my favorite artists in high school. And she's remained one of my favorite artists to this day. I think she's amazing. She's also, I mean, she's an incredible songwriter, but I think because she has so much swag. People don't realize how good of a singer she is. She's a fantastic vocalist and is really, really, really articulate. And I don't cover a lot of songs anymore. So I wanted to cover something that was, like, slightly challenging and also really vocally impressive, and frankly, hard for me to do.”
Renee is currently in the middle of promoting her second album, Bite Me, and opened up about how much more enjoyable it was to create compared to her first project.
She explained: “I mean, I feel like everything was incredibly different. I stopped listening to people that don't make music, because if you don't make music, then why the hell am I listening to you. And I also think the biggest difference, I think I just got a lot better. I think I have just become a better songwriter. I think I understand how to make pop music now in a way that I didn't really before. And I was very sure about what this album was and thematically, what it needed.
“So I felt like I was quite like, headstrong in like, what was gonna work and what wasn't. Because, nobody knows something better than yourself. I think a lot of things were different. I also just, like, had a lot of fun making it, like, I made it with like, three people, mostly, like, it was always like, four of us in the studio all the time, and we got so close, and some of us were already so close. So it was also just like a mess. It was such a mess, like we were just tweaking every day. It was so fun. And I don't think I enjoyed making the first one as much.”
