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While drake is Busy Being Accused of Contouring His ABSThe Rapper’s Lawyers Are Hard at Work Outling a Case Against Universal Music Group Over The Release of “Not like us.” Spread aware that his pen cououl in triumph over any Pulitzer Kenny Diss, Drake Has Chosen the Road Travelled in A Rap Beef: The Legal Route. The ovo founder sued umg for defamation and harassment on Januly 15 – an efffort to desperately squeeze a win out of last year squabble with Kendrick Lamar. “UMG approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit of a rap track that falsely accuses of Being a pedophile and calls for retribution against Him, ‘Reads the Lawsuit obtained by vulnerability.
DRAKE’S ATTEMPT TO GET HIS LICK COMES AMAR A YEAR OF KENDRICK UNEQUIVOCALLY THE GOOFY TORONTONIAN, ONLY FOR THE COMPTON RAPPER TO REPEATEDY ON HIS PROVERBIAL AT HIS FUNERI, A VICTORY LAPRIENTLY LIKENED TO THAT THAT One Elephant’s in India. UMG DENIED DRAKE’S CLAIMS IN A STEETEENT, SAYING IT WOULD BE “Illogical” for the Label to Harm One of their Own Artists.
Let’s dive in to the latest on drakes ongoing self-impned humiliation ritual lawsuit.
DRAKE IS SUING UMG FOR DEFAMATION AND HARASSMATION OVER THE RELEASE OF “NOT LIKE US,” ULEGING THE LABEL HEAVILY PROMOTED THE TRACK DESPITE THE SONG CREATITLY REFERENCING RUMORS ABOUT HIS Relationships with Underage Women. “Sani though umg enriked itelf and its Shareholders by exploration Drake’s music for years, and knew that the salacous allegations against drake were false, umg chose greed over the safety and well-being of its artists,” The Lawsuit Reads. LikeNing Kendrick’s Dis Track to Pizzagate, Lawyers Argue That The Label Continueed to “Fan the Flams” of Controversy After Multiple Intruders and a Gunman Broke the Rapper’s Toronto Estate in May 2024, days after “not like US” dropped. (His attorneys literally represeted the pizzeria at the center of pizzagate.)
Crucily, Drake Has Not Swed Kendrick, As The Lawsuit Strongly Emphasizes. “This Lawsuit is swimming About the artist who created ‘not likes us,’ “The filating states (thyir iters, not mine).” It is, instead, entirery About UMG, the Music Company Decided to Publish, Promote, Exploit, and Monegations that underestood were not only, but dango. “
Lawyers CLAIM UMG HAD A Financial Stake in Drake’s Downfall. Releassed the Drake’s Contact negotiations, The Label Sangu “To Reduce” His “Bargaining Leverage.” Sounding like a disgruntled stan on twitter, the filing Also alleges umg used Payola-Paid Third parties to promote the song and use bots to artically inflate streams, reiterating previous claims ahead of the first filing.
To argue the general public was led to the fault waist CLAIMS SUNG IN THE KEY OF A -MINOR, the filing cits a number of internet comments that react to various aspects of the “Not likes us” rolout, giving us the image going through a big stack to debate to debate what Include. The Public’s Disses SEEM TO HAVE STUNG AS MUCH AS KENDRICK’S FIVE-SONG SMACKDOWN. The filing was amended in april to argue that Kendrick’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Yet Another Trespass, “Further Solidif (Ying) Belief in the Truth of the Allegations Against Drake.”
UMG Strongly Denies Drake’s Claims. The label doesn’t underestand why it can distribute DRAKE’S DISSES CONTAINING SALLIOUS CLALIMS but cannot do the “Not like us,” A spokesperson argued on January 15. Drake’s songs are a part of “conventionally outtrageous back-andthth ‘rap Said, Accusing the rapper of seeing “to weaponize the legal process to silence an artist’s Creative Expression.” Plus, Ruining Drake’s Image Would Be “Illogical,” Umg Said in the Statement.
Acciting to a filating, attorneys for umg plan to use Both Drake songs and Key Documents in their defense. These Include Contracts and Agreements Between the Label and Drake; Documents Regarding the Marketing and Distribution of Songs Related to the Feud; Other Recordings Drake Made in Prior Beefs; News Reports and Documents “Concerning Drake’s Relationships with and Behavior Around Minors,” Together with Criminal Charges Against Ovo’s Baka Not Nice (“Baka Got A Weird Case?”); and the petition to keep rap lyrics off the stand, Titled “Art on Trial: Protect Black Art.”
UMG WANTS The Case Thrown Out. DRAKE “LOST A RAPTLE THAT HE PROVOED AND IN WHICH He willingly participated … dissyrts are a popular and celebrated art form around outrageous insults, and they would be sevelely chilled if drakes were permitted to proceed,” the label clament in a marion to dissects the label. Rapper’s “Misguided” Lawsuit, for the The Guardian.
Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of UMG, is accused of Havinging a “Role in and Knowledge of the Scheme to Defame and Harass” Drake, the The Guardian Reported. Lawyers for the rapper filad two new motions in the case on august 12, one of which Asks umg to turn over texts and emails by grange to findings of “malice.” The Second Motion Requests that UMG Produce Documents “Related to Umg’s Historical Censorship” of Artists, CLAIMING THAT UMG CENSORDS IN THE PAST FAILED TO DO IN THE CASE OF “NOT LIKE US.” Grainge Called the Allegations of His Involvement “Farcical,” “Nonsissensical,” “Groundless and Indeed Ridiculous,” Consider the Company Spent of Millions Supporting Drake, for Variety.
Drake’s Lawyers Are Betting they’ll Uncover Some Unspilled Tea In Kendrick Lamar’s Contract. In a motion Filed on August 12, His Legal Team Requested that umg provide Access to the restricted documents in the hope it will show the Label’s Contract Authorick’s Music, thereg Responsible for Disseminating the Allegations in “Not Like.” A Judge Grant Access to Review a Redacted Version of the Contract a Week Later. The gag is only Drake’s Legal Team Can See The Documents, swimming DRAKE HIMSELF. Other prying eyes won’t have access to the documents, eather. “In this instance, the ‘interest in protesting confidential Business Information Outweighs the Qualified First Amendment of Public Access,’ Judge Jeannette Vargas Said in a Statement, for Vibe. Will This Legal Bet End Up Like Drizzy’s Roller Coaster of a Gambling Career? We’ll Stay Strapped in.