Megan Thee Stallion, Tory Lanez and Drake: The story so far

Megan Thee Stallion has accused Drake of utilizing her for "clout" successful his caller way Circo Loco.

The collab with 21 Savage references a pistillate who "lie 'bout getting shots, but she inactive a stallion", which many, including Megan, deliberation is astir her.

Texas-born rapper Megan says she was injured erstwhile Tory Lanez changeable astatine her feet aft a Hollywood enactment successful 2020.

With Tory - who denies the charges - owed to spell connected proceedings soon, BBC Newsbeat looks astatine however we got to this point.

It each begins astatine the enactment hosted by Kylie Jenner successful the Hollywood Hills connected 12 July 2020.

Megan, existent sanction Megan Pete, and Tory Lanez, existent sanction Daystar Peterson, are said to person got into an statement arsenic they drove distant from the event.

At a proceeding past December, Los Angeles Police told a justice that erstwhile Megan demanded to beryllium fto retired of the car, she heard Tory shouting astatine her to creation earlier helium opened fire with a handgun.

The Savage vocalist had initially told officers she'd been wounded by stepping connected breached glass.

It was later, connected Instagram, wherever she archetypal said that Tory had changeable her.

The brace had been successful a narration but divided earlier the accusations surfaced.

He has denied charges of battle with a firearm and carrying a loaded firearm successful a vehicle. He's besides been ordered to enactment astatine slightest 100 yards (91.4m) distant from Megan.

"I cognize my mama and my daddy and my granny had to beryllium looking retired for maine with that one, due to the fact that wherever the bullets deed at, they missed everything, but they were successful there," she antecedently said.

Both artists went connected to notation the quality successful their work.

In his opus Money Over Fallout, Tory suggested the accusations against him were false, saying: "Megan radical tryna framework maine for a shooting."

In the aforesaid track, helium casts uncertainty connected the shooting, asking: "How you get changeable successful your foot, don't deed nary bones oregon tendons?"

A fewer months later, Megan released her ain song, Shots Fired, which accused Tory of lying "just to prevention face", insisting she is the 1 "speakin' facts".

As the quality escalated, radical started taking sides, with Drake being the latest to look to broadside with Tory.

Megan spoke retired aft memes and maltreatment dispersed online, saying: "In immoderate benignant of way, I became the villain".

She was accused of lying astir being changeable and has had to repeatedly support herself, suggesting misogynoir - misogyny against achromatic women - could beryllium wherefore she's been targeted.

Megan has received enactment from artists including JoJo and Kehlani but says she's been characterised arsenic "aggressive" and a "snitch".

About a twelvemonth aft the shooting, DaBaby - who collaborated with Megan connected her opus Cry Baby - was criticised aft bringing Tory connected signifier aft her acceptable astatine Rolling Loud Festival.

While Drake and Tory reportedly haven't ever seen eye-to-eye the pair, who are some Canadian, are present said to beryllium connected bully terms.

He has not publically responded to the absorption astir the track.

When his caller medium Her Loss, which includes Circo Loco, dropped, Megan reacted furiously connected Twitter, writing: "since erstwhile it is chill to gag astir women getting shot?".

She went connected to accidental "weak... conspiracy theories" had been attached to her sanction and deed retired astatine rappers who "pile connected a achromatic pistillate erstwhile she says 1 of y'all homeboys abused her".

She has accused Drake of wading successful for "clout".

Tory has remained tight-lipped aft the way dropped, lone tweeting a shrugging emoji.

He's been nether location apprehension since past week up of his long-awaited trial, which is owed to commencement adjacent period astatine a Los Angeles court.

The proceedings had been owed to statesman successful September but were delayed aft Tory told a tribunal his defence lawyer was engaged with different matters.

In a statement, Megan's lawyer Alex Spiro said: "Despite the irrefutable grounds that Megan was a unfortunate of weapon violence, the ignorant proceed to enactment her attacker."

Drake has yet to respond to Newsbeat's petition for comment.

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