Instead Drake is going after UMG for defamation of character...
From TMZ
Drake is not backing down in the war against his own label, in fact he's now upped the ante by suing Universal Music Group for spreading the "false and malicious narrative" he's a PDF file ... TMZ Hip Hop has learned.
Drake filed the defamation case Wednesday morning in federal court in NYC ... ripping UMG for releasing and promoting Kendrick Lamar's vicious diss track, "Not Like Us." In the docs, obtained by TMZ Hip Hop, Drake says UMG knew full well Kendrick's lyrics, and images in the music video, referring to Drake as a PDF file were false and dangerous.
In the suit he calls Kendrick's hit -- filled with "inflammatory and shocking allegations"-- was a "gold mine" for UMG ... and he says they had an ulterior financial motive in promoting it.
Drake claims his label was doing everything it could to pump up "Not Like Us" because it knew it would devalue his music and brand ... and, therefore, give UMG leverage in future contract negotiations with Drake.
Keep in mind, Drake's last UMG contract, signed in 2022, was a blockbuster deal worth a reported $400 million!
Drake says he's got bot receipts to show just how far the label went to turn Kendrick's song into an anthem. According to the suit, UMG paid a third party to use bots to increase the song's streams by at least 30 million -- and engaged in a "pay for play" scheme with at least one radio promoter.
He claims UMG attached the label "chart-topper" to "Not Like Us," despite knowing that title was based on fraudulent data.
It's also clear Drake's very mindful of what's going down in New Orleans next month -- in the suit, he claims UMG was in on getting Kendrick the Super Bowl Halftime gig ... so, the song could be performed on that massive stage, which he calls "one of the most significant (and viewed) cultural events of the year."
Interestingly, Drake isn't going directly after Kendrick in the suit -- in fact, he says, "This lawsuit is not about the artist who created 'Not Like Us.' It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize" the song which it knew contained false claims.
16 comments:
He removed Spotify because he thinks he's going to another label and he needs Spotify's numbers to help him. He's an idiot. His street cred is completely gone. It's over. He is completely Bish made and it shows.
Nothing more than legal games. Realized suing Kendrick wasn't getting him anywhere so he's suing the label for promoting Kendrick calling him a pedophile. Like my grandma used to say: too twisted for color tv.
It was a rap battle. He lost. Couldn't take it and sued. Same thing happened on that TV show he was on. There was another character that became more popular, and he sued. He is spoiled and weak. He been playing the part of a rapper this entire time.💯
This some $!$$¥ D!€K @$$ $H!+!
Soooo what if ALL the rappers he’s dissed in the past does the same to him? Also im confused snitch because yesterday it was said he dropped his lawsuit.
THIS IS SOME B.A.P. SH!T HE'S DOING!
That litigious Jewish side of him is resurfacing.
How did he know where to get the receipts from? Probably cause he uses the same company to inflate his streams as well he knows this company and how they play speaking of his record label because they’ve done these things for him in the past and he’s mad because they are no longer doing these things for him in this particular instance and circumstance
12:27, he dropped his previous lawsuit. The earlier one was about UMG working with Spotify to inflate numbers. This lawsuit is about UMG defaming his character by calling him a pedo.
good way to end up in a coma bbl drizzy
Dude diddy went against a liquor company and got jailed..you going against the real demons...you have ended your career
Well if Drake says he's not a pdfile and Kendrick doesn't have proof then Drake certainly has a right to sue for defamation. He has a solid case against the company that represents both of them.
He's not gonna win this case either.
Kendrick could sue him back over that line he said about his kids. Kendrick won't because he not ice cream soft.
3:32 missed the part about Aubrey calling Kendrick a woman beater and saying his kids aren't his. So yeah, good luck with that.
Suing az Drizzy. Suing azz Drizzay (Sing it like BBL Drizzy).
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