Drake’s personal report label has responded to his pre-action lawsuit inside hours of the information relating to the authorized criticism circulating on social media.
For many who could also be behind on the matter, Drake’s firm, Frozen Moments LLC, filed a authorized criticism in a Manhattan court docket on Monday (November 25) towards Common Music Group (UMG) and Spotify, accusing the 2 entities of partaking in an unlawful scheme to artificially increase the streaming numbers for Lamar’s diss observe “Not Like Us.”
On the middle of the lawsuit is the declare that UMG engaged in misleading enterprise practices and violations of the RICO Act, usually reserved for organized crime circumstances, by using bots, payola and different manipulative techniques to inflate the observe’s recognition.
A UMG rep supplied a response to Selection mere hours after the information broke and rapidly denied any validity to the claims made within the criticism filed by the corporate beneath Drake’s holdings.
“The suggestion that UMG would do something to undermine any of its artists is offensive and unfaithful,” the rep advised Selection. “We make use of the best moral practices in our advertising and marketing and promotional campaigns. No quantity of contrived and absurd authorized arguments on this pre-action submission can masks the truth that followers select the music they need to hear.”
UMG wasn’t the one entity to reply to the information of the authorized criticism, both. Lamar’s former Prime Dawg Leisure label govt Punch appeared to swear off rap once-and-for-all upon phrase of the litigation reaching his desk.
“Naaaaaahhhh,” Punch wrote within the tweet. “The rap streets is finished. SMH.” Lamar’s “Not Like Us” producer Mustard additionally appeared to reply to the information in disbelief in a tweet, as properly.
“OMG lmfaooooooooo,” Mustard wrote within the since-deleted tweet.
Whereas it’s price noting that the current submitting has not but ballooned right into a full blown lawsuit, the pre-actio” petition serves as a procedural step beneath New York regulation as a method of securing info earlier than submitting a lawsuit.
Moreover, Drake’s attorneys declare that UMG violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, threatens to tug the attainable case into severe territory — contemplating the act is usually utilized in felony circumstances concentrating on organized crime.
In a way, Drake’s authorized crew is making an attempt to go after UMG and Spotify utilizing the identical form of costs Younger Thug battled in his epic YSL RICO case — which Drake signaled he bankrolled the Atlanta rapper’s protection within the case in an Instagram Story put up earlier this 12 months.