Drake adds Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance to targeting record labels
Drake expands libel lawsuits against Universus Music Group, saying more people are considered rapper Kendrick Lamar himself a pedophile after performing Don’t like us At the Super Bowl halftime show and the Grammy Awards.
Drake said in a revised complaint against his record label Wednesday night that the performances introduced a fierce attack on Lamar by millions of new listeners and caused more threats to Canadian rappers and their families.
Drake said that while Lamar omitted the term “pedophile” from the term “pedophile” seen by more than 133 million people, it was ostensibly because “almost everyone knows” it is defamatory.
“This is the first, hopefully the last Super Bowl halftime, plotting the role of assassinating another artist,” Drake said in the lawsuit.
Don’t like us Also included is the lyrics “Drake, I hear you like ‘Em Young,” Lamar sang in the Super Bowl.
In a statement Thursday, UMG said Drake’s allegations were unfounded and that his lawsuit was an insult to creative expression.
“There is no doubt that Drake is one of the most accomplished artists in the world, and we have a 16-year successful relationship with them, and his legal representative misled his legal representative and took another ridiculous legal step,” Umger said.
Accuse UMG of strengthening Lamar’s music
UMG attempts to dismiss Drake’s original lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on January 15 and will have the opportunity to dismiss the amended lawsuit.
Drake is seeking unspecified damages, accusing UMG of trying to increase its profits and make him a pariah by promoting Lamar. In the revised lawsuit, he claimed that UMG “has made substantial financial investments and used its professional contacts” to specifically arrange Don’t like us Perform in the Super Bowl.
He also claimed that the Super Bowl show introduced the song to “Millions” no way [sic] Hearing this song or any [sic] In the song before it. ”
“UMG will be held responsible for the consequences of its bad decisions,” Drake’s attorney Michael Gottlieb said in a statement.
Drake and Lamar have had a fight for about a decade, including through a series of competitive Diss tracks.
Don’t like us Last May 4, at Drake Family is important It appears to be accusing Lamar of physical abuse and infidelity and questioning one of his children’s parents.
Lamar’s song won the Grammy Record and Song of the Year Award and ranked Billboard’s Hot 100 in three weeks.
Drake’s name is Aubrey Drake Graham. American Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
