

He pointed to the fence on Instagram to start 2019, proclaiming unspecific but definite Ws. If we don’t remember “Hate Me on the Low,” or “Teyana,” or “Say It,” or even what the name of his latest album was without Googling it ( Love Me Now?) we will remember, so long as we live, “Are we apologizin’ or you wanna shoot the fade?” It doesn’t matter what the argument with Travis Scott in the video below was actually about, but it likely stemmed from Tory Lanez’s zealous, almost delusional belief in Tory Lanez, above all else. Perversely, this is also a part of Tory Lanez’s charm. (The two are headed out on the “ Assassination Vacation” tour this spring.)

This was the earliest indication of Lanez’s lack of shame, which props up his talent for raising intrigue by, well, compelling him to do some truly wild shit. He clarified that the two were not related and offered Drake $10,000 to listen to his music. Whether Drake and Lanez are related was a question that bounced around forums and message boards for a short time that was answered by none other than Lanez himself, in another video. There’s a YouTube clip from 2010 titled “ Drake’s Lil Brother Tory Lanez Freestyle in The Room,” where Lanez reads lines like “I’m not dying till all my chips in the Pringles case” into a floor mic. “All you boys in the New Toronto wanna be me a little,” Drake said on “Summer Sixteen”-a line that most believe was a reference to Lanez’s New Toronto mixtape, which came out Winter Fifteen. Which, if you’ve followed his music career, makes perfect sense.

(OK, that last part we can’t know for sure, but it’s implied by the rest.) More broadly, when you look at the shot, it’s hard to know whether Lanez is joking, or whether he’s making things harder than they should be. Let’s start at the start, with the way he clears out with his off hand, even though the defender’s playing way off him and doesn’t even respect his jumper.
