LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a courtroom that quickly turned chaotic after a trial that seethed with tension both cultural and personal, a Los Angeles jury on Friday found rapper Tory Lanez guilty of three felonies in the 2020 shooting of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion, which left her wounded with bullet fragments in her feet and could send him to prison for more than 20 years.

Lanez, who was put in handcuffs and led to jail while wearing a powder pink coat with matching pants, showed no visible reaction as the verdict was read.

But moments later after the jury was escorted out, his father, Sonstar Peterson, leapt up and began shouting. “This wicked system stands judged before God almighty!” He shouted, as deputies closed in on him. He then pointed to the two prosecutors in the case and yelled “You two are evil, wicked people. You know exactly what you did.”

With considerable effort, deputies wrestled him from the courtroom, where he continued to shout in the hallway.

The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for roughly a day and a half before convicting the 30-year-old Canadian rapper, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Along with aggravating factors that jurors also found true, the counts could lead to up to 22 years in prison and deportation when he’s sentenced on Jan. 25.

Once a little kid starts calling himself a rapper, they begin to label themselves gangsters, pick up arms and begin to terrorize each other.

Real rap ain't about killing but poetic justice.

Listen to words of Marcus Hopsin

Rap was often about uplifting messages.

Yeah, people battled but only to display their most outrageous lines to outdo their opponent with dexterity and craft.

It rolled into the NWA era which was edgy, gritty and outright vulgar.

Yet it was acceptable because they often spoke about the injustice the black man faced in America and the wider world.
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When such grit blended with street colours -crips and bloods, Mob Piru and all, devastation followed.

To be a rapper today has no semblance with what Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T , even Jeru the Damaga represented.

Now you have spotemgottem and Torey Lanez representing the culture.

Makes it difficult to claim hip-hop.

God bless the American justice system.

Let the short nigga rot in jail

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Once a little kid starts calling himself a rapper, they begin to label themselves gangsters, pick up arms and begin to terrorize each other.

Real rap ain't about killing but poetic justice.

Listen to words of Marcus Hopsin

Real talk!!!

These kids who force themselves into the rap game think it’s all about geng geng with a Glock under their pant. The rap game orientation is messed up.

#FREE_TORY Something fishy here

Tory lanes one of my favourite artist. These two tracks say and trap house was really good

ugly.

All those short Men with insecurities...

Ok