Joe Budden’s has reentered the Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion chat. On a recent episode of the Joe Budden Podcast, Budden and his co-hosts decide to revisit the case where Lanez was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
So here’s the why … Lanez’s legal team recently tried to introduce new evidence, claiming that Jauquan Smith, who was driving Lanez on the night of the shooting, saw Megan’s ex-friend Kelsey Harris holding a gun. This evidence was rejected, prompting Budden to share his perspective.
“I believe he is ill-tempered. I do believe he is ill-tempered,” Budden said. “I’ve never seen a celebrity shoot somebody for less. People that have a lot going on. He had a lot going on, one of the hottest artists out. Now, not as successful as her [Megan Thee Stallion] at the time. But I’m pressed to believe that.” That’s his take. Not a fact. But let’s continue.
Budden continued, “In the heated moment, why is Tory heated? Somebody tell me why Tory Lanez is heated in that moment. I pop you, I pop you, I’m the one who wants to tell about it.”
Before you read into that, Budden clarified that Megan Thee Stallion might not have fabricated her account but suggested that others could have influenced the narrative. “Well, first of all, I think this is above her,” Budden remarked when questioned about Megan lying. “I don’t think she made it up. She is a mere pawn in this. This play is greater than her. She didn’t make nothing up. I ain’t gonna say who I think made it up. But it wasn’t her.”
Now get this, Budden also discussed Megan’s former best friend Kelsey Nicole, and her name was the point of focus during the trial, and was involved in the incident.
He mentioned that Kelsey reached out to him previously, urging him not to discuss the case. “Ni**a know out there who it is, I ain’t saying it on the broadcast. But I know exactly who it is, I know how that gun got there, I know whose gun it was. And I thought it was weird the last time we talked about this sh*t, Kelsey jumped in my DMs, talking about, ‘Aye, don’t talk about this sh*t no more.’ Why? You got immunity. It’s odd … Just odd. Why wouldn’t you want someone to talk about one of the biggest cases in however many years? I think this is a scary state if that’s what we think of Black men. It’s a really scary state. You just took somebody in the top 5% and said he’ll shoot somebody because of male ego.”
Oh and Budden kept going. He further distinguished between scuffles and the act of shooting, which he described as his main issue with Megan’s account: “Scuffled and recklessness is still different than ‘he shot me,’ which has been my beef with Megan this whole time.”
ICYMI, in August 2023, Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Following the ruling by a jury of his peers, Lanez attorney filed several appeals. In June, Lanez’s wife, Raina Chassagne, filed for divorce. Megan Thee Stallion, currently on tour with GloRilla, recently encountered Lanez supporters and appeared uncomfortable. Despite Lanez’s conviction, artists like Drake, Fivio Foreign, Chris Brown, and Meek Mill have shown support for him.
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