Drake has filed a defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, the parent record label he and Kendrick Lamar are signed to.
Drake filed a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday and called the release of Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which is aimed at the Canadian rapper, an example of valuing “corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists.” On the song Lamar calls Drake a pedophile and accuses him of appropriating Black culture.
Drake is signed to UMG subsidiary Republic Records, while Lamar is signed to UMG’s Interscope Records. The new lawsuit claims UMG “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”
“UMG intentionally sought to turn Drake into a pariah, a target for harassment, or worse,” the complaint reads. “UMG did so not because it believes any of these false claims to be true, but instead because it would profit from damaging Drake’s reputation.”
Drake’s latest suit comes two months after he claimed UMG and Spotify inflated the streams of “Not Like Us.” But it was reported late Tuesday that he dropped the legal action in that case.
“This lawsuit is not about the artist who created ‘Not Like Us,’” the new suit claims. “It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit and...
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