Adin Ross, a 24-year-old streamer, said this week that rapper Megan Thee Stallion and her legal team attempted to serve him with legal papers by sending a mariachi band to his home, an unusual tactic he described during a livestream and in remarks to podcaster DJ Akademiks.
Ross, who streams on Kick, told Akademiks that lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion and Roc Nation had told him they could not serve him "outside of my house," and that a mariachi ensemble was dispatched to perform outside his residence in an apparent effort to lure him outside so the papers could be handed to him. Ross displayed a phone recording of the band while recounting the incident to viewers and listeners.
Ross said he felt "baited" by the move and that his lawyer had advised him to have opposing counsel contact his attorney directly. He said he planned to speak with his lawyer about scheduling a deposition and would ask whether he could stream it. In previous livestreams and posts on X, Ross has been a vocal supporter of Tory Lanez, the Canadian rapper convicted in the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, and he has publicly disputed aspects of her account of the incident.
On multiple livestreams Ross repeated allegations that Megan had been inconsistent in describing what happened the night of the July 2020 incident and questioned details of her injuries. "She said they weren't having sex, then said they f–ked a few times," Ross said, according to his remarks. He has also publicly said, "Free motherf***ing Tory Lanez," and asserted that Lanez did not have evidence tying him to the shooting.
The viral accusations come against the backdrop of a long-running legal dispute stemming from the July 2020 shooting in Los Angeles. In December 2022, a jury convicted Daystar Peterson, known as Tory Lanez, of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, keeping a loaded and unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. In August 2023, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced Lanez to 10 years in prison. Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, testified at trial that she had been shot in the feet and required surgery to remove bullet fragments.
Megan obtained a civil restraining order against Lanez in January, telling Los Angeles County Judge Richard Bloom in remote testimony that she had endured a campaign of harassment and feared further violence if Lanez were released. Judge Bloom found that Megan had shown a credible threat of violence and barred Lanez from contacting her for five years. Prosecutors at the original trial and at sentencing praised Megan for coming forward amid online backlash and mockery directed at her following the incident.
Lanez's legal team has denied the shooting allegations and characterized some of Megan's legal actions as an attempt to stifle speech. In court filings, Lanez's attorneys said the restraining order request effectively sought to "weaponize the justice system" and that Megan "disagrees with free speech." Lanez has maintained his innocence of the criminal charges and, in statements after his sentencing, said he took responsibility for certain verbal and intimate exchanges but not for the criminal convictions.
Ross's account of the mariachi band incident is the latest public example of tensions between social-media personalities and artists connected to the Lanez case. Ross has made repeated on-stream comments about the incident and has contrasted Megan's public statements with what he characterized as inconsistencies, while Megan's legal team has pursued litigation and restraining orders tied to ongoing harassment and false narratives circulating online.
Neither Megan Thee Stallion nor Roc Nation has been quoted in Ross's accounts posted by media outlets. Ross said his lawyer advised him to direct opposing counsel to contact his attorney. He also told Akademiks he would pursue a deposition and consider streaming it to his audience.
The dispute underscores how high-profile criminal cases and the accompanying online discourse continue to intersect with entertainment, streaming culture and legal proceedings. Megan Thee Stallion has spoken publicly about the long-term impact of the shooting, telling a court she had not experienced a single day of peace since the incident. At sentencing, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said he hoped Megan's decision to come forward would offer hope to others who feel helpless.
Legal wrangling related to the Lanez case has extended beyond the criminal trial, with separate civil filings and accusations about outside parties amplifying conflict on social media. As Ross and Megan remain in a public dispute, questions about how legal papers are served and about online commentary continue to play out in livestreams, podcast interviews and court filings.