After about a month of teasing, Drake has gone all in on his label, Universal.
Drizzy has sued UMG in Federal court for defamation, harassment, and violation of general business law by using bots to inflate the streams of Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss, “Not Like Us.”
This afternoon, UMG responded to the suit.
“Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist — let alone Drake — is illogical. We have invested massively in his music and our employees around the world have worked tirelessly for many years to help him achieve historic commercial and personal financial success. Throughout his career, Drake has intentionally and successfully used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to engage in conventionally outrageous back-and-forth ‘rap battles’ to express his feelings about other artists. He now seeks to weaponize the legal process to silence an artist’s creative expression and to seek damages from UMG for distributing that artist’s music.”“We have not and do not engage in defamation — against any individual, At the same time, we will vigorously defend this litigation to protect our people and our reputation, as well as any artist who might directly or indirectly become a frivolous litigation target for having done nothing more that write a song.”
Do you think Drake will win his suit?