RAPPER ATTACKED IN CALIFORNIA PRISON

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is life inside Chris. You want the real deal, homie,
This is what you miss when the sale lights. Get
your mind right and think straight. You know the perspectives
to see o's in the inmates. This is life now.
Just want to survive. Now when the lights out, keep quiet, better,
bipe down. If you're ready for less, get it. You
want to know the truth? Take a pisit life inside Chris.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Lake rapper Tony or Tory line Is was hospitalized as
an attack at a California prison where you're serving ten
years seconds for shooting hip hop star Meghan Thie Stallion
in the feet. Lina Is, whose legal name is Dave

(00:46):
Starr Peterson, was attacked at the housing unit the California
Correctional Institute in Tapie to Hatchabee Pedro Caldero and Michael Specks,
spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, sent in an email.
The spokesman did not specify how Lanez was attacked, but
a message posted on the rappers Instagram account said that
he was stabbed fourteen times, but and both his lungs collapsed.

(01:11):
Despite being in Painy as talking normal, said. The post
staff immediately gave Tory medical aid in cold nine one one.
He was taken to an outside hospital. The President Prisons
Investigative Union in the Kerran County DAS are investigating. The
prison is about one hundred miles north of la in
the mountains of the Mojave Desert. In December twenty twenty two,
Toy was convicted of three felonies. Uh Megan, whose legal

(01:37):
name is Megan Pete, the one he shot, testified during
the trial. In July twenty twenty, after they left the
party at Kylie Jenner's Hollywood Hills home, Tory fired the
gun at the back of her feet and shouted for
her to dance, so she was. She walked away from
an suv in which they had been writing. She had
bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed.
It wasn't until months after the incident that she public

(01:58):
the publicly identified Linez as the person who had fired
the gun. A judge rejected a motion for a new
trial from Tory's lawyers, who appeal who are appealing his conviction.
Megan recently alleged that Tory was harassing her from prison
through surrogates, and in January judge issued a protective order
through twenty thirty, ordering him to stop any such harassment
or contact the thirty two year old Canadian Tory began

(02:21):
releasing mixed tapes in two thousand and nine and saw
a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums.
The case created firestorm in the hip hop community, churning
up issues including the reluctance of black victims to speak
to police, gender politics and hip hop online toxicity, and
the ramifications of misogyny WI a particular brand of misogyny

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black women experience. The often dramatic trial was packed with
friends and family members of Tory, who felt he was
a victim of both the justice system and the powerful
people around Megan, who is managed by Jay Z's Rock Nation.
When the verdict was announced, Tory's father jumped up and
angrily denounced the prosecutors. Megan, thirty years of age, was

(03:05):
already a major rising start at the time of the shooting.
In her music's popularity has stored since. She won a
Grammy for her Best New Artists in twenty twenty one,
and she had a number one single with Savage So
a complicated case or rapper case, Yeah, fascinating that's it
for now.