When Drake and Kendrick Lamar were exchanging scathing diss tracks in May — culminating in Lamar’s knockout punch “Not Like Us” — nobody saw it ending in litigation. But six months later, Drake did the unthinkable: He hired lawyers and went to court over a rap beef.
When it came to 2024’s biggest legal battles in the music industry, the stakes couldn’t have been much higher.
The ongoing rise of generative artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT also continued to dominate the legal beat in 2024, as lawyers and lawmakers scrambled to deal with cutting-edge problems like deepfakes of Taylor Swift, fake vocals of the late Tupac Shakur, and large-scale use of copyrighted music to train AI platforms.
Like the case against Young Thug and his group YSL two years earlier, the new case claims Durk and his “Only The Family” crew blurred the lines between hyper-realistic lyrics and actual criminal violence: “OTF is a hybrid organization that functions as a Banks-led music collective and a gang.” And like the YSL case, they’re alreadyin May aimed at breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster, it was hardly the first time the concert giant was labeled a “monopoly.
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