Soulja Boy has defended Megan Thee Stallion and slammed the hip-hop neighborhood for not displaying her assist, after Tory Lanez was discovered responsible final month of capturing Megan throughout an altercation in July 2020.
“Y’all n****s out here shooting bitches now?” Soulja stated throughout an Instagram Live earlier this week. “And ain’t nobody saying nothing? I’m the only n**** in the whole rap game that’s going to say something? Okay, cool. Well, fuck you, Tory Lanez, you a bitch.”
The rapper went on to deal with these within the rap world that didn’t imagine Megan’s allegation or outright defended Lanez after the accusations have been made public. “Y’all straight sat there, watched that man shoot a bitch, and y’all ain’t say shit,” Soulja stated. “Y’all n****s lame as fuck. Y’all n****s ain’t say shit. Y’all let that n**** just shoot that bitch. Fuck Tory Lanez.”
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Tory Lanez was discovered responsible of capturing Megan on December 23, ending a nine-day trial in a Los Angeles courtroom the place she remained staunch in arguing that Lanez shot her in each toes throughout an incident within the early hours of July 12, 2020.
Lanez was discovered responsible of all three charged towards him: one depend of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, one depend of carrying a hid, loaded and unregistered firearm in a automobile and one cost of discharging a firearm with gross negligence. The rapper has lengthy denied he shot Megan, however didn’t testify in his personal defence in the course of the trial. He will likely be sentenced on January 27, and faces greater than 20 years in jail.
Megan delivered an emotional three-hour testimony in the course of the trial, during which she described her anguish at having to relive the “torture” of the altercation via her pursuit of justice. While many supported Megan following her allegations towards Lanez, she additionally confronted doubt over the veracity of her claims from some within the rap world.
In November, a lyric on Drake and 21 Savage‘s collaborative album ‘Her Loss’ appeared to reference and undermine Megan’s allegations. “This bitch lie ’bout getting shot/But she still a stallion,” Drake raps throughout a verse on the album’s ninth track, ‘Circo Loco’. Megan responded by slamming those that used the incident for “clout” whereas casting doubt over her allegations.
“Stop using my shooting for clout,” Megan wrote in a tweet on the time. “Since when [the fuck] is it cool to joke [about] women getting shot… Ready to boycott bout shoes and clothes but dog pile on a black woman when she say one of y’all homeboys abused her.”
In one other tweet, Megan added: “When the… facts come out remember all y’all hoe ass favorite rappers that stood behind a n**** that SHOT A FEMALE.”
Soulja Boy himself has a historical past of being accused of violence towards girls. In early 2021, he was sued by a former private assistant who accused the rapper of gender violence, infliction of emotional misery and a number of different offences. The girl accused Soulja Boy of participating in abusive behaviour that included punching, kicking and throwing her, in addition to sexual assault and threats of violence.
Later that yr, a separate girl who stated she was a former romantic accomplice of the rapper accused him of home violence, assault and sexual battery, amongst different prices. The lawsuit alleged that Soulja Boy assaulted the girl when she was pregnant, and she or he later skilled a miscarriage. He has denied the allegations towards him.