Keep in mind a month in the past when Drake filed a petition in opposition to Common Music Group (UMG) and Spotify, claiming that the 2 firms conspired to inflate the streams for Kendrick Lamar’s well-liked diss monitor, “Not Like Us?” Effectively…Spotify will not be taking these claims flippantly and is firing again within the course of.
In a Friday submitting, the streaming large responded to the 6 God’s petition, saying it discovered no proof that it used bots or agreed to a take care of UMG to illegally inflate the now-classic diss track, in response to Billboard.
Moreover, Spotify additionally questions why Drake even determined to take authorized motion within the first place, including that the streamer is a “stranger” to the decades-long feud the Toronto rapper has had with Ok. Dot.
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Spotify additionally criticized Drake for the way in which by which he introduced his claims to court docket — not as a full-fledged lawsuit, however as an uncommon “pre-action” petition aimed toward demanding info. The corporate accused Drake of utilizing that “extraordinary” process as a result of his allegations are too flimsy to move muster in an precise lawsuit and would have been shortly dismissed.
“What petitioner is searching for to do right here … is to bypass the conventional pleading necessities … and acquire by the use of pre-action discovery that which it might solely be entitled to hunt had been it to outlive a movement to dismiss,” Spotify’s attorneys write. “This subversion of the conventional judicial course of ought to be rejected.”
When Drake took authorized motion in opposition to UMG and Spotify final month in two separate petitions, he was instantly criticized by Black Twitter, with some claiming that he’s out of contact with Black tradition.
Whereas Spotify took some time to reply to Drizzy’s claims, UMG didn’t. Shortly after information of the petition was launched, the music firm launched a press release to Selection, saying, “The suggestion that UMG would do something to undermine any of its artists is offensive and unfaithful. We make use of the very 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 wish to hear.”
Basically, UMG advised Drake that he misplaced the meat.