“He was not hesitant to say or stand up for what he believed in,” Moyo said of Francis.
that had to be surgically removed. It wasn’t until months after the incident 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 immediately respond to a request for comment.
her from prison through surrogates, and in January a judge issued athrough 2030 ordering him to stop any such harassment or any other contact.The 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
The case created a firestorm in the hip-hop community, churning up issues including, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, and the ramifications of
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 announced,In an interview with The Associated Press, BIBI explained the meaning behind the album’s lead single “Apocalypse,” which carries a more poetic Korean title meaning “The Apple Tree of the End Times.”
“I thought, if there was the fruit of knowledge of good and evil at the beginning, then this would be the apple tree at the end of times,” BIBI said.“You know that saying — when asked what you’d do if the world ended tomorrow, some say they’d plant an apple tree, others say they’d have an orgy. ... But to me, they felt like the same thing. Both are, in essence, acts of planting seeds.”
Her interpretation, merging ideas of creation, pleasure, and existential finality, may come across as provocative in a conservative South Korean society where open discussions about sex remain rare and often taboo.“In reality, everything has an end, and what each person chooses to do in that moment is their own,” she added. “It can’t be labeled as good or bad. After all, isn’t the very idea of good and evil ambiguous?”