During a performance at Rolling Loud Portugal, Meek Mill called for Tory Lanez'srelease from jail.
In a video circulating on TikTok, Meek is seen performing the DC4 track "Litty," which featured the currently incarcerated Canadian rapper. "That was fucking lit," he told the crowd after he performed the song. "Free Tory Lanez, too, one time."
Meek and Tory have collaborated a number of times and at one point they were planning to drop a full-length album together, though that never materialized.
Lanez is currently awaiting sentencing after he was convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. He is set to be sentenced on August 7. Prosecutors in the case are asking for a 13-year sentence against Lanez, who has maintained his innocence.
Understandably, people were less than enthused by Meek calling for the release of Lanez considering what he's behind bars for. It also comes just weeks after he defended YK Osiris, who was seen in a video forcing himself on Sukihana.
Despite the criticism, there's a good chance Meekl didn't see any of it.
Last week, he deactivated his Twitter account after posting a photo of himself on the floor of a toilet because he was hungover from a night of heavy drinking. "Too much liquor SMH," wrote the 36-year-old rapper, who had attended Michael Rubin's star-studded all-white party in the Hamptons.
In a since-deleted tweet, he appeared to respond to the ridicule. "We have so much influence they trying to use Small internet campaigns to sway the peoples perception of artists," he wrote. "We are basically our own media bases now and we can say what we want at will in front of millions and they don’t feel that. ... Anything I post they try to amplify it and make me look stupid. I wasn’t created on the internet and I know they got some of y'all in a trans threw social perception. That's why content creators win because lead the narrative."
