One of the major complaints plaguing Tory Lanez’s debut album, I Told You is that it sounds like the Toronto artist doing his best impersonation of his musical peers and their distinct sound. “Flex” sounds like Kendrick Lamar karaoke. “Loner Blvd” sounds similar to Drake’s “Look What You’ve Done,” while “D.R.E.A.M.Z” sounds like an uncredited Fetty Wap on the hook. Well, Tory has a reason why he sounds like 50-11 rappers and singers.
The 24 year old was on The Breakfast Club Wednesday morning and was grilled by Charlamagne over I Told You’s identity issues. While Tory doesn’t believe he’s swagger jacking anyone, he did offer up a reason why his album sounds like music we’ve already heard. In short, he’s a writer for himself and others.
“Some of those songs should have been for other people,” Lanez claimed when asked about his debut album’s lack of identity. “Some of the songs are for other people. I definitely write for a lot of people and some of those songs were for other people when I wrote them. Then I was just like, ‘Nah. I have to keep this. I can’t keep doing this to myself and giving my greatest songs to all these other artists.”
Like who? What songs? Tory didn’t answer those questions, telling Angela Yee instead, “I don’t really feel regret about [giving those songs away]. I make them every day, but sometimes in the moment, it’s like, ‘Damn…’”
As for his beef with Drake, there isn’t any. Tory says it’s the media who’s hyping things up. Things like going to Philly and high-key dissing Drake or all the other times the rapper has dissed his OG.
If there was beef, you’d know there’s beef because then we’d start playing scoreboard and nobody wants to play scoreboard. Who wants to do that? We came out here to get money and be young. […] I want to be me [not Drake]. I want to be the best me I can possibly be. I want to be the best me I can be. I want to go outside and walk down the street and be the best walking down that street.
Uh huh.
