A 10-year prison sentence has not stopped Tory Lanez from trading beef bars with PartyNextDoor in the latest escalation of a feud that may be just a dumb online misunderstanding, or a dumb album publicity stunt.
The “feud,” such as it is, appears to date back to a rather innocuous video posted on Lanez’s Instagram last month. In the clip, the incarcerated rapper — who was convicted for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot — talks on the phone to an associate about feeling inspired by recent releases from his fellow Canadians, including PND and Drake (the pair dropped their collaborative album, Some Sexy Songs 4 U last month).
“PartyNextDoor showed his best work of 2025, fucking Drake showed his best work of 2025,” Lanez says in the clip. A few moments later, Lanez says it’s time for him to “come out” with new music, despite being behind bars, and insists, “I’mma flame all of that shit.”
More than a week later, PND popped up on Instagram Live where he shared a snippet of a diss track directed at Lanez. “Fuck what Tory Lanez say, you know the B, I’m running that/I did everything he did, oh he’s just a running man.”
Later, he even seemed to allude to Lanez’s legal woes, saying, “You said I sound like Young Thug, you know you sound like me/Life is short, the lawyer’s cheap/The people that love me, they love me/Would’ve been back in the streets by Monday.”
If such harsh words seem like a strange response to what was ostensibly a compliment, PartyNextDoor appeared to have that realization soon enough. He posted an apology on Instagram Stories the following day, admitting, “@torylanez I was told about what you said without hearing your video for myself. You didn’t say anything that I wouldn’t say myself, now that I seen it I was wrong. City is stronger together.”
(If we had to guess, based on the wording of that apology, PND probably heard about the “I’mma flame all of that shit,” and not the rest.)
Lanez, however, appeared to be unmoved. Last Friday, another short video was shared on his Instagram, this one featuring a snippet of his own diss. In one line, Lanez appeared to threaten to slap PND, while there was even an ostensible reference to the line about Party (“And Party at the party playing with his nose now”) from Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss “Not Like Us” (a potentially odd choice considering Drake’s support of Lanez following his conviction).
Lanez’s post also included a note asking fans to decide whether he should let PND “get away with that ‘fake ass apology,’” or “let him catch his fade and we shake hands after as men?” A note from the rapper’s management said they would relay the decision to Lanez over the phone — but that was three days ago now and nothing’s happened since.
As it stands, there are a lot of open-ended questions here. And arguably the biggest is not: What fate have Tory Lanez’s fans decided for PartyNextDoor? But: Was this all a ploy to gin up interest in a new album Tory is allegedly releasing this Friday, March 7? (Which would also bring this back to the initial video that sparked the whole dumb thing.)
In a phone interview from prison last week on the Full Send podcast, Lanez detailed the album and described it as the “first ever in-real-time prison album. An album that’s recorded in prison, for prisoners, by a prisoner.” He added that the album would be different from previous albums by incarcerated people, which have frequently featured low-quality vocal tracks recorded over phone calls.
“It’s professional,” he insisted. “It’s going to sound exactly like a Tory Lanez album.”
“It’s mainly just me getting as clean a take as I can possibly get,” Lanez continued, “and then you know, putting the extra things into it that my engineer takes up at that point. There’s a lot of things to get my voice more clear and more transparent, high end, and bright.”
A rep for Lanez did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment, nor did a rep for PND.
From Rolling Stone US
