I think that’s what makes music coming from Canadian artists stand out.” He describes his own music as “swavey”, meaning that it fuses genres. “In Canada, you grow up listening to so much different music that when it’s time to make your own, you subconsciously take what you’ve heard growing up and it goes into your own sound. “I’m a very cultural person and Canada is a very cultural place,” he explains. He picked up musical influences from each location. (She eventually kicked him out of the house and he wound up on his own for a time.) His father was a missionary who moved from city to city spreading the word: Lanez lived in Atlanta, New York and Miami before heading back to Toronto as a teenager to live with his grandmother. His real name is Daystar Peterson – he adopted Tory as a nod to the Notorious BIG. When I say I feel broke, I don’t mean broke in a financial sense but I still feel like that kid from the gutter who’s still trying to get it, even though I’m at the place I want to be.” “I have a lot of money, but I still feel broke. “Honestly man, it hasn’t hit me yet because I’ve been working so much,” he says. These days however, he’s enjoying his stature as one of 2016’s most talked-about artists. Since then, Lanez has gone from being a kid searching for answers to a struggling artist looking for a break. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.”
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“At the time I was being very bad because I didn’t know how to express myself. Lanez and his mother were close she died from complications from anaemia. “My mom died when I was 11 years old,” explains the R&B star, in the midst of promoting his album in Chicago. It wasn’t seeing an artist on stage, or a particular record, but something more fundamental. A head of the release of his debut album I Told You, which came out on Friday, Tory Lanez is contemplating the event that inspired him to make music in the first place.