The followers are divided on Drake’s determination to sue Common Music Group for defamation in selling “Not Like Us.” However DDG is evident the place he stands, driving with The Boy.
Talking on-line, DDG made it clear: “I don’t give a rattling what he do. He information three lawsuits, 10 lawsuits. Drop a tune, I’ll neglect about it. The place the music at.”
This assertion comes after Drake talked about streamers and content material creators that he claims had the inexperienced gentle from Common Music Group to monetize their “Not Like Us” reactions. Amongst these named are Kai Cenat.
As well as, Cenat, Zias, NoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, and the CartierFamily are all listed as having obtained approval from UMG.
Drake alleges within the lawsuit that UMG permitted content material creators similar to Kai Cenat, Zias, NoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, and CartierFamily to monetize reactions to “Not Like Us” with out imposing copyright claims. He claims this lack of enforcement enabled the unfold of defamatory… pic.twitter.com/FZzip1QrTf
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) January 15, 2025
The accusations are a part of a swimsuit from Drake to Common Music Group for defamation. The case was filed in New York Metropolis federal court docket Wednesday morning, accusing UMG of spreading “false and malicious narrative.”
In response to TMZ Hip-Hop, the swimsuit addresses Common releasing and selling Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” The swimsuit claims the label was nicely conscious of Lamar’s lyrics, pictures within the music video, and the way allegations of Drake being a pedophile have been each false and harmful.
The lawsuit known as “Not Like Us” a “gold mine” for the label, constructed on “inflammatory and surprising allegations.” However why? Drake believes that UMG operated towards his model to influence future contract negotiations.
The swimsuit doubles down in bot utilization, stating the corporate used bot receipts to extend the streams by a minimum of 30 million. Moreover, the swimsuit accuses UMG of taking part in “pay for play” with a radio promotion firm. The swimsuit states UMG known as the tune a “chart-topper,” however the knowledge behind it was fraudulent.
Drake additionally highlights the upcoming Tremendous Bowl efficiency, stating the label helped Lamar get the job to diss him at “one of the vital vital (and seen) cultural occasions of the yr.”
However what about Kendrick particularly? The lawsuit highlights: “This lawsuit is just not concerning the artist who created ‘Not Like Us.’ It’s, as a substitute, totally about UMG, the music firm that determined to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize.”
Drake acknowledged the tune put him in peril, highlighting shootings exterior his Toronto house.
Drake’s new lawsuit towards UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”:
“It was simply three days after UMG initially revealed the Recording and Picture that Drake was focused at his Toronto home by armed intruders within the 2024 equal of ‘Pizzagate.'”https://t.co/EVhVle8tsx pic.twitter.com/fMwDvoWQLp
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 15, 2025
Earlier as we speak, information broke about Drake ending one pursuit of authorized motion towards Common Music Group and Spotify over allegedly amplifying Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” streams.
Salute to Bryson “Growth” Paul who picked the news of Drizzy’s Frozen Moments, LLC submitting a withdrawal order of petition with the New York Supreme Courtroom on Jan. 14. This concludes the present authorized chapter with no monetary obligations to both get together.
There was no opposition to the withdrawal order type Spotify. Common “reserved its place on the matter.”
The brand new authorized submitting reads:
“Please take discover that petitioner and movant Frozen Moments, LLC, by its attorneys Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, hereby withdraws its order to point out trigger in search of pre-action disclosure and preservation of sure paperwork and communications from respondent UMG Recordings, Inc. and pre-action disclosure of sure paperwork and communications from respondent Spotify USA Inc., with displays initially filed in New York Supreme Courtroom On November 25, 2024.”
Want some extra readability? Our pal Brian at Audiomack provided a little bit of context:
The discontinuance means the case won’t transfer ahead in court docket as filed. The withdrawal suggests Frozen Moments (Drake) and UMG reached a personal decision OR Drake’s authorized workforce reassessed the authorized deserves of their petition. Spotify mainly mentioned, “That each one sounds good” lol https://t.co/6pFS9Dk3uE
— Z (@BrianZisook) January 15, 2025
It’s value noting Drake nonetheless has a submitting set for a Jan. 28 listening to in Texas towards UMG and iHeartRadio.
Beforehand, Spotify responded to Drake’s authorized motion, accusing the streaming big and Common Music Group of amplifying Kendrick Lamar’s streams for “Not Like Us.”
In a authorized submitting, Drake acknowledged Spotify boosted the streams, to which they reply, calling the allegations “false” and calling the authorized motion a “subversion of the conventional judicial course of.”
Spotify says there isn’t a proof to assist Drake’s allegations of utilizing bots, and extra, it denies that there isn’t a deal to assist the one. “The predicate of Petitioner’s complete request for discovery from Spotify is fake,” Spotify’s authorized workforce wrote, in accordance with Billboard. “Spotify and UMG have by no means had any such association.”
Moreover, Spotify was vital of Drake’s authorized motion, together with making a “pre-action” as a result of the accusations have been believed to be baseless and would have been shortly dismissed.
“What petitioner is in search of to do right here … is to bypass the conventional pleading necessities … and acquire by the use of pre-action discovery that which it could solely be entitled to hunt have been it to outlive a movement to dismiss,” Spotify’s legal professionals added. “This subversion of the conventional judicial course of ought to be rejected.”
