Troy Ave Will Release ‘Roland Collins’ Album This Friday

Fresh off his press conference announcing he's suing Irving Plaza and Live Nation for the shooting that hospitalized him, Troy Ave has announced his new album Roland Collins will drop this Friday.

He hasn't wasted any time capitalizing on his tabloid fame since getting shot at a T.I. concert on May 25. That same night, camera footage caught him chasing the alleged shooter with a gun and letting off a couple shots. That led to his arrest and charges of attempted murder and weapon possession. He's set to fight case in trial, but not before pointing the blame at who he believes allowed the shooting to happen.

Earlier today (Aug. 8) Troy Ave and one of his attorneys, Scott Leemon, held a press conference outside Irving Plaza to announce they will sue the venue and its owners (Live Nation) for failing to provide adequate security to artists backstage, thus allowing the gun that shot Troy and killed his friend Ronald "Banga" McPhatter to be brought inside.

Troy ended up leaving the venue with the gun that killed Banga later that night, but in the lawsuit against Irving Plaza and Live Nation, Troy and his team claim he didn't bring the gun inside. Instead, they say Troy was attacked by a third party in the green room of the venue, and it was the third party's gun that fired the fatal bullets.

"Had the defendants [Irving Plaza and Live Nation] and/or their security personnel taken the most rudimentary security measures in patting down individuals seeking entry into Irving Plaza and/or requiring such individuals to go through a metal detector," writes Troy's legal team in the lawsuit, "the subject incident and the resultant life changing injuries suffered by the plaintiff would have never occurred."

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