“A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.”

Canadian singer and rapper

Tory Lanez is the professional name of Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson, a Canadian singer and rapper. He is known for mixing R&B and hip-hop and for showing a flexible style across his music. He first drew attention after being discovered by Sean Kingston, and he gained early recognition with the mixtape Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story in August 2013. In 2015, he signed with Benny Blanco’s Mad Love Records, an imprint of Interscope Records.