UMG CEO Sir Lucian Grainge Swats Down Drake’s Newest Transfer

The authorized struggle between Drake and UMG continues to be heating up, and now, UMG CEO Sir Lucian Grainge is responding to the Canadian celebrity’s newest authorized missive. In a sworn declaration, Sir Lucian Grainge known as Drake’s current authorized try to border Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” as an inside job to defame him “groundless and certainly ridiculous.”

As reported by Music Enterprise Worldwide, Sir Lucian Grainge responded to Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit, claiming the chief was conscious of the contents of Kendrick Lamar’s scathing and brand-damaging “Not Like Us” diss observe.

Grainge’s sworn declaration was filed on August 14 within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, the place he claims to haven’t heard “Not Like Us,” seen its art work, or something concerned within the observe earlier than Interscope Information launched the tune in Could of final 12 months.

“While, as a part of my function, I definitely have monetary oversight of and duty for UMG’s international companies, the proposition that I used to be concerned in, a lot much less answerable for, reviewing and approving the content material of “Not Like Us,” its cowl artwork or music video, or for figuring out or directing the promotion of these supplies, is groundless and certainly ridiculous,” Grainge wrote within the declaration.

Including insult to damage, UMG’s legal professionals added of their August 14 submitting, “The premise of Drake’s movement — that he couldn’t have misplaced a rap battle except it was the product of some imagined secret conspiracy going to the highest of UMG’s company construction — is absurd.”

Drake has but to reply to the most recent transfer from UMG.

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