Drake Files Lawsuit Against UMG For Promotion & Harassment of “Not Like Us” | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

Drake filed a lawsuit against UMG for defamation and harassment of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” Keep watching for the full details of the case.

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00:00Drake ending his legal beef against UMG and Kendrick? From ending the petition to filing

00:05a lawsuit, we got the story. The Canadian rapper has filed an official lawsuit on Wednesday in

00:15federal court suing Universal Music Group for defamation and harassment, calling its release

00:20and promotion of Not Like Us an example of valuing corporate greed over the safety and

00:25well-being of its artists. The suit accuses UMG of having approved, published, and launched a

00:30campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that was intended to convey the specific,

00:36unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile and to suggest that

00:42the public should resort to vigilante justice in response. For a quick refresher, back in November,

00:47Drake shocked the music industry when he filed legal petitions against UMG and Spotify,

00:52accusing them of an illegal scheme involving bots, payola,

00:55and other methods to pump up Kendrick Lamar's diss song against Drake, Not Like Us.

01:02Those filings were not full-fledged lawsuits but rather pre-action petitions

01:06aimed to secure information so that a full lawsuit can be filed.

01:10An attorney for Drake did not immediately return a request for comment. A spokesperson

01:14for UMG declined to comment. A representative for Spotify did not immediately respond to a

01:19request for comment. For more hip-hop news, keep it locked right here at Billboard.