Tory Lanez, amid all of the comparisons to current artists, maintains an awareness of his own symbiotic style. Not to mention, he can absolutely kill a freestyle (Aubrey, we’re still waiting for you to do one of those without your Blackberry… JK, we still love Drizzy).
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His R&B singing voice has enough range to provide full ballads and his flows can put him into virtually any subgenre of rap. Tory has mastered voice inflections to the point where he can sound like a completely different artist on hook from when he’s rapping in the verses. Perhaps the most impressive thing about I Told You is that it contains absolutely no features – and you don’t even notice that you’re listening to only one person throughout the entire album. He further explains that Fletcher’s, by providing opportunities in the arts, helped kids excel in areas they otherwise would not have if they had gone to another school. So they had more programs that were like, alright if you wanted to act or wanted to do something, there was at least a little more than an average school.” It was weird because all the kids from the that were like, I don’t know why they sent them to Fletcher’s but Fletcher’s was an arts school. Tory also mentioned his relationship with Brampton natives 4YallEntertainment who attended the same high school as Tory, Fletcher’s Meadow. It’s not a ghetto where you’re gonna get shot, but it is a place where you’re gonna see multiple people with they life fucked up.”
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Brampton is a suburban city where there’s like houses and good stuff over here, and then you’ve got this downtown area that’s crack infested. When I first came there, I moved to the inner-city and a place called Brampton. “I moved around Toronto a lot, because Toronto’s an area where there’s multiple different cities that surround the Greater Toronto Area. In an interview with Hip Hop DX, Tory explains, Tory Lanez has talked about his Brampton roots before. The atmosphere is climactic, even cinematic, and culminates into a monstrously bass-boosted zenith where Tory proclaims “It’s the year 2008, I’m getting kicked up out the crib”’ later detailing that he was “kicked out the house in Brampton”. To begin the album, there is a skit illustrating Tory’s frustrated sister yelling at Tory and effectively kicking him out of the house.
The skits are quite direct and the songs themselves follow closely to the progression of Tory’s life from 2008 to the current day. Although it uses a similar format as GKMC or TPAB, the themes do not run as profound or interpretative as Kendrick Lamar. Each skit revolves around a specific theme, similarly to Good Kid m.A.A.d City or To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar.