Common Music Group is just not backing down in opposition to Drake. Greater than every week after he filed a defamation and harassment lawsuit, accusing them of closely selling Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” the behemoth music firm is submitting a movement to have it dismissed.
UMG filed the movement in Texas on Thursday and claimed that the Toronto rapper doesn’t have sufficient proof to assist his allegations, in accordance with Selection.
The submitting reads, “As a result of [Drake’s] petition is said to and was filed in response to UMG’s protected free speech, and since [Drake] can’t carry his burden to determine by clear and particular proof that he’s entitled to pre-suit discovery, the Court docket ought to dismiss [Drake’s] retaliatory authorized motion in opposition to UMG.”
The corporate later added within the 144-page movement, “[Drake] supplies nothing outdoors of his verified petition, which alone can’t present an evidentiary foundation for a petition. Even wanting into the petition… there is no such thing as a evidentiary assist for his asserted want for pre-suit deposition of UMG.”
UMG additionally mentioned that Drake’s lawsuit is a weak try to cease them from distributing Lamar’s smash hit, which shall be troublesome contemplating he’s set to carry out at this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl in New Orleans.
Drake’s resolution to file a lawsuit in opposition to UMG has not sat properly with many within the hip-hop group, and it’s a well-liked sentiment that the “Slime You Out” rapper is performing like a sore loser in his beef with Lamar.
He notably pissed off many within the streaming group and named a number of the hottest content material creators on the web in his lawsuit, together with Kai Cenat, NoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, Cartier Household, and Zias.
On pages 52 and 53 of the prolonged go well with, the Toronto rapper’s attorneys alleged that UMG allowed these personalities to monetize reactions to Lamar’s diss observe with out imposing copyright claims.
The 6-God believes that this helped unfold the false claims that he’s a baby predator and is an instance of the corporate prioritizing cash over the 6-God’s fame.