Tory Lanez’s ex-attorney, Shawn Holley, has responded to the rapper’s accusations that she worked with JAY-Z’s Roc Nation to orchestrate his incarceration.
Lanez addressed the contentious trial, in which he was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, by making a series of bold statements on his latest album Peterson, recorded during his prison stint. During the “Verdict Day” proceedings, he sharply criticized Holley, who stepped down midway through the December 2022 trial, alleging covert collaboration with the opposing side. “Trial laywer left me like she Kevin Liles / She was in bed with my opposition like wedding vows,” he stated. Tory continued, “Shawn Holley, that’s a name I would call special / Only a special person could rep you and wanna dead you / Go to your DNA expert and say don’t test you / You fully excluded but inconclusive is what she tells you.”
“The DA’s first offer was nine years / The second, it was six at eight-five, about five years / My lawyer keeep on pressing me to take it, I’m like, ‘Nah’ / I ain’t do the crime so I’ma sit it down right here / She’s losing my bail hearings, I feel like it’s on purpose.”
Additonally, he rapped: “You did me dirty / Working for my accuser and working for me / All the information I gave her is at R-O-C / Y’all had my lawyer in y’all pocket, she circling T’s / And that’s why Megan always talked like jail was certain for me / It’s ’cause y’all paid for them 10 years, let’s keep it honest.” Holley issued a statement, rejecting the claims. “Mr. Peterson’s claims have been investigated thoroughly by the State Bar and proven — on two separate occasions — to be meritless,” she stated. “His own representative has acknowledged to me that he is making these knowingly false claims in a desperate attempt to say or do anything he can to get out of prison.”
Holley Reflects on Legal Fallout as Lanez Fires Back at Megan’s Claims
“Again, I have never had any relationship or connection to Roc Nation and my loyalty throughout the time I represented Mr. Peterson was only to him. Finally, Mr. Peterson asked me to step down as his counsel when I refused to advance the defense he wanted to put forth.” Holley continued, “He is now sitting in prison, having used that defense in his trial. Maybe he should have listened to me.”
In a separate development, Tory Lanez responded to Megan Thee Stallion’s allegations that he has been targeting her from behind bars—a claim that played a pivotal role in her securing a five-year restraining order against the imprisoned rapper. My haters spiraling these days, so don’t shit amaze me / But restraining orders in prison? Yo, that shit is crazy / What more do n-ggas want from me like Tyreese When he said it in that one video, crying on his knees? / I guess taking me from my seven-year-old son wasn’t enough for you to breathe,” he rapped on “My Shayla.” He then rapped, “All of a sudden, I’m harassing from a cell as if I made every profile page on Reddit myself / They tried to paint me like I’m obsessed / Got all her pictures the wall with a big wax head on my shelf / It’s time to get over yourself, nobody even thinkin’ about this shit, get over yourself.”
The song touched on Megan’s legal battle with Milagro Gramz, a blogger allegedly paid by Tory’s team to fabricate stories about her online. It also referenced court reporter Meghann Cuniff, who extensively covered the shooting trial. “Roc Nation comin’ for Milagro, that’s really funny / Even more, they tryna find ways to relate it to me / If I was petty I would countersue ’cause I got evidence / Meghann Cuniff been on payroll to play a dummy,” Lanez stated. Cuniff responded sharply to the track on X, stating, “I’m glad he pronounced my name correctly.”
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