Tory Lanez confirmed that his studio equipment was seized and he says that he was targeted because of his partnership with Unite the People, a nonprofit organization fighting for social justice and prison and sentencing reform.
Lanez says he has been helping other inmates.
“The rumors are true. The Prison Tapes will be discontinued until further notice,” he wrote in a statement shared to his Instagram. “However, I think it’s important that my fans know the truth about the crooked ass sh-t that’s really going on here. My cell was not raided and trashed because I learned how to record myself in prison or because I created The Prison Tapes. I was shut down because the ‘HIGHER UPS’ figured out what I was really doing with The Prison Tapes, and how many inmates were being helped in a life-changing way because of them.”
Lanez says all of the proceeds from his music was to go towards his inmate’s legal fees so that they could appeal their sentences.
The star says that since July, he has afforded legal representation for 472 inmates and actively reopened 476 cases.
He also told fans that if anything happens to him behind bars, he went out in a “blaze of glory trying to revolutionize the end of a mass incarceration era on our people.”
Read the full statement above.
