Drake is just not backing down within the warfare towards his personal label, actually he is now upped the ante by suing Common Music Group for spreading the “false and malicious narrative” he is a pedophile … TMZ Hip Hop has discovered.
Drake filed the defamation case Wednesday morning in federal court docket in NYC … ripping UMG for releasing and selling Kendrick Lamar‘s vicious diss monitor, “Not Like Us.” Within the docs, obtained by TMZ Hip Hop, Drake says UMG knew full nicely Kendrick’s lyrics, and pictures within the music video, referring to Drake as a pedophile had been false and harmful.
Within the swimsuit he calls Kendrick’s hit — crammed with “inflammatory and stunning allegations”– was a “gold mine” for UMG … and he says they’d an ulterior monetary motive in selling it. Drake claims his label was doing every part it may to pump up “Not Like Us” as a result of it knew it could devalue Drake’s music and model … and subsequently give UMG leverage in future contract negotiations with Drake.
He is additionally claiming UMG was in on getting Kendrick the Tremendous Bowl Halftime gig … so, that the tune might be carried out on that huge stage.
Apparently, Drake is not going instantly after Kendrick within the swimsuit — actually, he says, “This lawsuit is not in regards to the artist who created ‘Not Like Us.’ It’s, as a substitute, fully about UMG, the music firm that determined to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize” the tune which it knew contained false claims.
As for the way the tune put Drake at risk … he factors out that since Kendrick dropped the megahit there have been a number of shootings at or close to his Toronto mansion, one in every of which ended with one in every of his safety guards getting shot.
The music trade thought Drake was retreating on this authorized battle, as a result of on Tuesday he’d filed a movement to drop a authorized motion he’d filed towards UMG and Spotify in New York state court docket. Our sources inform us that was merely performed to clear the best way for this new federal case.