Drake is the latest act to call for the release of fellow Canadian artist Tory Lanez. The singer’s conviction is directly tied to a July 2020 incident in which he was accused of firing a gunshot at GRAMMY Award-winning rapper Meg Thee Stallion. Truthfully, I was shocked that I ended up in that place,” Meg Thee Stallion wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times. Despite Meg Thee Stallion’s account of what took place and the subsequent conviction, Tory Lanez and others have claimed that he was framed and did not shoot the Houston native. More recently, advocates and allies of Tory Lanez have pivoted away from music and attempted to reignite the push for the artist’s release by claiming to have secured new evidence.