As Tory Lanez awaits his sentencing after being found guilty of shooting and injuring fellow hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion on July 12, 2020, some in the hip-hop community who criticized Megan over the past two years and even accused her of lying appear to be coming to terms with the verdict.
Some artists, like hip-hop mogul 50 Cent, vocally supported Lanez. Drake appeared to cast doubt on Megan’s story in a controversial lyric and others like DaBaby brought Lanez out on stage after Megan’s set during the Rolling Loud music festival in Miami in July 2021.
Now, 50 Cent, who once compared Megan to Jussie Smollett – the actor who was convicted of staging a false hate crime against himself and filing false police reports – apologized to Megan in an interview with Big Boy that aired on REAL 92.3 Wednesday.
“I’m gonna apologize to Megan Thee Stallion,” 50 Cent said.
In this Dec. 13, 2022, file photo, Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, makes her way from the Hall of Justice to the courthouse to testify in the trial of Rapper Tory Lanez for allegedly shooting her, in Los Angeles, CA.
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The rapper and “Power” actor said that while he was initially skeptical about Megan’s story, he changed his mind after hearing a key piece of evidence from the trial – a recorded jail phone call that Lanez made to Megan’s then-friend Kelsey Harris hours following the incident.
In the jailhouse phone call to Harris, Lanez appears to acknowledge shooting Megan, says he is “deeply sorry” and he was “just so f—— drunk.” The recording was a key piece of evidence presented by prosecutors to the jury in the trial of Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson.
“That made me feel like, ‘Oh s—, now I know what happened.’ I’m sure that was probably what swayed people in court, too,” 50 Cent said. He also appears to have previously deleted the viral post he shared last month on Twitter comparing Megan to Smollett.
Lanez was found guilty by a jury on Dec. 23, 2022, of all three charges for shooting and injuring Megan in both feet in an incident in the Hollywood Hills. Lanez pleaded not guilty and his trial attorney George Mgdesyan told ABC News that Lanez’s legal team plans to appeal.
In this Dec. 13, 2022, file photo, singer Tory Lanez returns to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center for his trial in Los Angeles.
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