He doesn’t have the knack for hooks, he isn’t better at writing raps than the Drake brain trust (or at making songs, for that matter), and he has a much tougher time finding the right rapping to singing ratio. To be clear, Tory Lanez will never be Drake. As a title, I Told You isn’t a far cry from Thank Me Later. I Told You chronicles this journey, relying heavily on skits and an out-of-body Menace II Society-esque narration ploy to tell its story, which basically is a long-winded build to (as its title implies) force-feeding doubters crow, cycling through several iterations of Drake in the process. This shot, in a way, legitimized Lanez as a Drake adversary or at least a potential Drake understudy, and Lanez has since produced a platinum single, the Brownstone-sampling “Say It.” In Lanez’s mind, these constitute huge stepping stones in his career, one that started when he was kicked out of his grandmother’s house.
He has been pestering the OVO boss in an attempt to get his attention and by extension, the world’s, and Drake eventually gave him half a bar on the Meek Mill diss “Summer Sixteen” with a dig at the so-called "New Toronto," the class of up-and-comers molded in Drake’s image. Lanez is among a group of Toronto artists trying to escape Drake’s long shadow through emulation. But for now, he isn’t even the biggest artist in his own city. One day I’ma be the biggest artist in the whole world,” he says casually in the opening moments of his debut album, I Told You. Toronto singer and rapper Tory Lanez has his eyes fixed on mega stardom.
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