Drake has filed a federal lawsuit against UMG for defamation over Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us.'
“unleashed every weapon in its arsenal” in the company’s campaign to turn the diss-track into a “viral hit,” according to the 81-page complaint obtained by. Drake claims the song itself was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile.” about the artist who created “Not Like Us.
Drake claims UMG defamed him by waging an “unrelenting campaign” to boost the song and its false statements because “it understood that the Recording’s inflammatory and shocking allegations were a gold mine.” The two A-list rappers have been duking it out since spring 2024, taking sly swipes at one another in various tracks. However, things erupted into a full-blown lyrical war when Drake released “Family Matters” in May, insinuating that Lamar had cheated on his fiancée and was physically violent with her.
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