Rapper Tory Lanez attacked in California prison as he serves time for Megan Thee Stallion shooting

LOS ANGELES AP Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an attack Monday at a California prison where he s serving a -year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet functionaries stated Lanez whose legal name is Daystar Peterson was attacked at a housing unit at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi at about a m Pedro Calderon Michel spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported in an email Michel did not specify how Lanez was attacked but a message posted on the rapper s Instagram account Monday evening commented Lanez was stabbed times and both his lungs collapsed The post stated Lanez is breathing on his own Despite being in pain he is talking normally in good spirits and deeply thankful to God that he is pulling through the post reported adding Lanez was stabbed in his back torso head and face Staff right away gave Lanez health aid and called and he was taken to an outside hospital Michel declared The prison s investigative unit and the Kern County District Attorney s Office are analyzing he mentioned The prison is about miles kilometers north of Los Angeles in the mountains of the Mojave Desert and houses about medium- and maximum-security inmates In December Lanez was convicted of three felonies assaul t with a semiautomatic firearm having a loaded unregistered firearm in a van and discharging a firearm with gross negligence Megan whose legal name is Megan Pete testified during the trial that in July after they left a party at Kylie Jenner s Hollywood Hills home Lanez fired the gun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding She had bullet fragments in both feet that had to be surgically removed It wasn t until months after the matter that she publicly identified Lanez as the person who had fired the gun A judge rejected a motion for a new trial from Lanez s lawyers who are appealing his conviction They did not straightaway respond to a request for comment Megan in recent times alleged that Lanez was harassing her from prison through surrogates and in January a judge issued a protective order through ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact The -year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in and saw a steady rise in popularity moving on to major label albums two of which reached the top on Billboard s charts The scenario created a firestorm in the hip-hop district churning up issues including the reluctance of Black casualties to speak to police gender politics in hip-hop online toxicity and the ramifications of misogynoir a particular brand of misogyny Black women experience The often dramatic trial was packed with friends and family members of Lanez who felt he was a victim of both the justice system and the powerful people around Megan who his managed by Jay-Z s Roc Nation When the verdict was disclosed Lanez s father Sonstar Peterson jumped up and angrily denounced prosecutors and the system before he was dragged from the chaotic courtroom where countless in the audience were shouting similar things He later apologized to the judge Megan Thee Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting and her music s popularity has soared since She won a Grammy for best new artist in and she had No singles with Savage featuring Beyonc and as a guest on Cardi B s WAP Source