In January, Drake sued his personal document label Common Music Group, claiming “Not Like Us” — Kendrick Lamar’s diss monitor towards him — was defamatory. Earlier this week, UMG tried to get his libel go well with dismissed, and now Drake’s attorneys are retaliating.
In attempting to get the go well with dismissed, UMG argued that almost all listeners wouldn’t take such “outrageous insults” as statements of truth. Drake’s attorneys are countering that “hundreds of thousands of individuals” suppose Drake is definitely a pedophile.
“UMG fully ignores the grievance’s allegations that hundreds of thousands of individuals, everywhere in the world, did perceive the defamatory materials as a factual assertion that plaintiff is a pedophile,” Drake’s attorneys hearth again, per Billboard. “UMG additionally ignores [the lawsuit’s claim] that the statements in query (and surrounding context) implied that the allegations had been based mostly on undisclosed proof and the viewers understood as a lot.”
Drake first started initiating authorized motion in November when he accused UMG and Spotify of scheming to spice up “Not Like Us.” It’s solely gotten worse, particularly since Lamar received Report and Music Of The 12 months for “Not Like Us” on the Grammys after which introduced the hit to the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present.
