Tory Lanez is credited with the birth of the streaming community.
Tory Lanez paved the way for streamer?
Streamers are more popular than ever in 2025, and Tory Lanez wants to take credit for allegedly starting the wave. The incarcerated rapper shared a post on his Instagram Story on Thursday (January 16) showing a clip from his 2020 #QuarantineRadio livestream.
“The legendary Black Durag. We’re back,” Tori yells in the clip below, doing his best radio announcer impression. “Quarantine Radio is now live. Click the button on the left. Open Instagram. Make sure it’s updated.”
“I crawl so the streaming community can walk #quarantineradio,” Tori wrote in the post.
Streaming has become more popular than ever in recent years, with the likes of Kai Cenat, iShowSpeed, PlaqueBoyMax and more finding fame and fortune on a variety of platforms. Whether they took cues from the Conservatives is up for debate.
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Tory Lanez launched Quarantine Radio on Instagram in response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Guests include 21 Savage, Chris Brown, Swizz Beatz, Tyga, T-Pain, The Game, Timbaland and more.
That July, he was arrested for the shooting death of Megan Thee Stallion, and the show ended shortly after. In December 2022, he was found guilty of shooting and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Megan Thee Stallion recently obtained a restraining order against Tory after she successfully argued to a judge that Tory harassed her in prison.
Check out Tory Lanez’s post below.
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