A distraught 32-year-old rapper from Canada, Tory Lanez, was stabbed at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi and was taken to the hospital.
According to information obtained, during a furious argument at the prison on Monday, May 12, 2025, another inmate stabbed Lanez.
Currently, the stabbing is considered non-life-threatening while the motivation for the crime is being examined.
Following the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, the rapper who was taken to the hospital in an ambulance is presently serving a 10-year prison sentence, according to TMZ.
Before firing, Lanez instructed Megan Thee Stallion to dance, according to her testimony.
Meanwhile, renowned Nigerian music executive and record producer ID Cabasa has said that Senegalese-American musician and executive Akon’s assertions that he helped create the Afrobeats genre are based on how those around him perceive him.
According to reports, Akon recently stated in an interview that the current genre of Afrobeats originated from his partnerships and collaborations with Nigerian musicians and music executives between the late 2000s and the 2010s.
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But according to ID Cabasa, who made this assertion in an interview with Wazobia FM, Akon has no claim to the creation of Afrobeats.
In the late 2000s to early 2010s, when Afrobeats was not yet widely accepted in the West, he acknowledged that Akon worked and cooperated with a few Nigerian musicians and music executives, but this does not support his claim to be the genre’s creator.
He noted that even before Akon traveled to Nigeria to work with Wizkid, P-Square, and other Afrobeat singers, performers like Timaya, 9ice, and 2Face had already achieved fame.
Banky W found Wizkid’s talent and signed him to his record label, Empire Mates Entertainment, which later partnered with Akon’s label. The record producer also refuted Akon’s assertion that when he signed Wizkid to his label in 2008, he was just a local musician.
