“I wanted to be able to trace it in a way where it was like, for me, just something that people were going to listen to and be like, ‘Yo, there’s so many things here that I can’t even hate on this.

with his debut album, I Told You (the source of the Grammy-nominated single Luv. “I’ve got to tailor my style in a way that’s just like, you can’t trace it and can’t detect it,” Lanez told Apple Music about how he pulls his sound together. He hit the Top Five of the pop charts in his native Canada and in the U.S. His first album, I Told You, came out in 2016 two more- MEMORIES DON’T DIE and LoVE me NOw-followed in 2018, amidst high-profile features with Future, Sean Paul, Rick Ross and Ty Dolla $ign. Lanez quickly established himself as prolific and hard-hustling, kicking out as many as four mixtapes a year, demonstrating an unusual versatility as both a singer and a rapper. His break came in 2009, when a string of self-directed videos he’d uploaded to YouTube caught the attention of Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston, the latter of whom gave Lanez a shot at a deal. Born Daystar Peterson in 1992, Lanez bounced around as a kid (Toronto, Montreal, Miami, Atlanta) before settling in Toronto in his early teens. Like his occasional sparring partner Drake, the rapper-singer-producer Tory Lanez is a natural omnivore, an artist who manages to soak up sounds from across the spectrum of hip-hop-from ’90s slow jams to 2010s trap, Caribbean dancehall to Canadian R&B-and spin it into something uniquely his own.

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