It’s nearly been a 12 months since Kendrick Lamar and Drake engaged of their legendary rap battle. However the apparent loser within the scenario appears to maintain the occasions of the meat alive by revisiting them in a brand new lawsuit.
On Wednesday, the Toronto rapper filed a defamation and harassment swimsuit accusing Common Music Group (UMG) of spreading the false narrative that he’s a pedophile by means of Lamar’s now-legendary diss monitor, “Not Like Us.” Within the authorized paperwork, Drake’s attorneys make it clear that this lawsuit will not be about Lamar, who wrote and carried out the track, however UMG, whom they declare “noticed a chance, seized it, and continued to fan the flames.”
UMG responds to swimsuit
The behemoth music firm, which Drake has been signed to for greater than a decade, responded swiftly to the assertion simply hours after the lawsuit was filed in New York federal court docket.
In a press release launched to Selection, a UMG spokesperson stated, “Not solely are these claims unfaithful, however the notion that we might search to hurt the repute of any artist — not to mention Drake — is illogical. We’ve invested massively in his music and our workers world wide have labored tirelessly for a few years to assist him obtain historic business and private monetary success.”
They continued, “All through his profession, Drake has deliberately and efficiently used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to interact in conventionally outrageous back-and-forth ‘rap battles’ to precise his emotions about different artists. He now seeks to weaponize the authorized course of to silence an artist’s artistic expression and to hunt damages from UMG for distributing that artist’s music.”
UMG closed its response by saying that they “don’t have interaction in defamation” and are prepared to “vigorously defend this litigation” to guard their repute.
In different phrases, UMG says Drake has used them previously to win rap battles and is now making the most of the authorized system to attempt to silence Kendrick since he misplaced their rap battle in embarrassing trend.
Black Twitter’s vicious response
Naturally, Black Twitter was fast to clown the 6-God for his questionable authorized transfer, resulting in some amusing posts on social media.
One consumer on X wrote, “Drake is retaining ‘Not Like Us’ and the narrative alive greater than Kendrick is. That’s the funniest half about all of this.”
One other consumer added, “Drake bought smoked so laborious he was like ‘nah, this gotta be unlawful’.”
The meat already appeared to do loads of injury to Drake’s repute, however plainly this lawsuit is making issues a lot and seems to have backfired in his face. We’ll see how he responds to it.