But the assertion that he is the best rapper alive right now raised a few eyebrows, and more questions, since heвЂ™s not primarily known as a rapper, never mind the best. Listen, Tory Lanez is pretty good at rapping. I WILL BODY ANY OF YALL NIGGAS OUT ! PERIOD. He pointed to the fence on Instagram to start 2019, proclaiming unspecific but definite Ws. If we donвЂ™t remember вЂњHate Me on the Low,вЂќ or вЂњTeyana,вЂќ or вЂњSay It,вЂќ or even what the name of his latest album was without Googling it ( Love Me Now?) we will remember, so long as we live, вЂњAre we apologizinвЂ™ or you wanna shoot the fade?вЂќ It doesnвЂ™t matter what the argument with Travis Scott in the video below was actually about, but it likely stemmed from Tory LanezвЂ™s zealous, almost delusional belief in Tory Lanez, above all else. Perversely, this is also a part of Tory LanezвЂ™s charm. (The two are headed out on the вЂњ Assassination VacationвЂќ tour this spring.)

This was the earliest indication of LanezвЂ™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. ThereвЂ™s a YouTube clip from 2010 titled вЂњ DrakeвЂ™s Lil Brother Tory Lanez Freestyle in The Room,вЂќ where Lanez reads lines like вЂњIвЂ™m not dying till all my chips in the Pringles caseвЂќ into a floor mic. вЂњAll you boys in the New Toronto wanna be me a little,вЂќ Drake said on вЂњSummer SixteenвЂќ-a line that most believe was a reference to LanezвЂ™s New Toronto mixtape, which came out Winter Fifteen. Which, if youвЂ™ve followed his music career, makes perfect sense. (OK, that last part we canвЂ™t know for sure, but itвЂ™s implied by the rest.) More broadly, when you look at the shot, itвЂ™s hard to know whether Lanez is joking, or whether heвЂ™s making things harder than they should be.

LetвЂ™s start at the start, with the way he clears out with his off hand, even though the defenderвЂ™s playing way off him and doesnвЂ™t even respect his jumper.

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