Tory Lanez’s net worth
Tory Lanez is a Canadian rapper, singer, record producer, fashion designer, and music video director. He is one of the richest celebrities in Canada. Tory Lanez has a net worth of $2 million. Tory Lanez released his debut album, I Told You, in 2016, followed by Memories Don’t Die (2018), Love Me Now? (2018), Chixtape 5 (2019), and Daystar (2020).
His first single, Say It, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Lanez has directed several of his music videos, including Do the Most (2020), In the Air (2020), and Band A Man (2021). In 2014, he founded the record label/management company One Umbrella, which started as a clothing line called Forever Umbrella. Lanez has feuded with several rappers, including, Jacquees, and Joyner Lucas. After Tory and Jacquees ended their short-lived feud, they went on tour together.
Tory Lanez ‘s early life
Tory Lanez was born Daystar Shemuel Shua Peterson on July 27, 1992, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Sonstar and Luella. e family moved to Montreal when Lanez was 4 or 5 years old, then they relocated to Miami, Florida. After Luella died, Sonstar worked as a missionary and ordained minister, so the family moved around the country. After Sonstar remarried, he moved the family to Atlanta, Georgia. There, Tory was given the nickname, Lanez by his friend Hakeem because he “loved seeking thrills and running through the streets.
In 2006, Tory went to live with a cousin in Queens, New York, due to behavioral issues, then he lived with his grandmother in Toronto, but she didn’t want to take care of him. He started going by Tory Lanez, and after quitting school at age 16, he began performing at outdoor concerts.
Tory Lanez ‘s successful career
Lanez released the mixtape T.L 2 T.O. in 2009, and after rapper Sean Kingston saw a video of him freestyling, he asked Tory to meet with him in early 2010. That year Lanez released four mixtapes, Playing for Keeps, Just Landed, One Verse One Hearse, and Mr. 1 Verse Killah, and in 2011, he signed with Kingston’s record label, Time is Money Entertainment.
He then released several more mixtapes, including Chixtape (2011), Sincerely Tory (2012), Conflicts of My Soul: The 416 Story (2013), and Lost Cause (2014). His debut studio album, I Told You, was released on August 19, 2016, on Interscope Records/Mad Love Records. The Gold album reached #1 on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart and #4 on the Billboard 200 chart and featured the hit singles Say It (3x Platinum) and Luv (2x Platinum).
Tory’s follow-up, 2018’s Memories Don’t Die, topped the Canadian Albums Chart and reached #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. His next two albums, 2018’s Love Me Now? and 2019’s Chixtape 5 reached #1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and cracked the top 10 on the Billboard 200, Canadian Albums Chart, and UK Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart.
