Drake and his authorized group are doubling down on their claims in opposition to Common Music Group, insisting their promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” was a focused assault.
On Wednesday, April 16, Complain Papi filed an amended grievance in his defamation lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group. The revised model of the grievance claims that the label used Kendrick Lamar’s wins on the Grammy Awards and efficiency of “Not Like Us,” through the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present to additional promote the one and, in flip, injury Drake’s fame.
Selection reviewed the amended grievance that expands the January go well with from 81 to 107 pages, specializing in occasions which have occurred because the preliminary submitting. The rapper’s authorized group claims that Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present was proven to over 133 million individuals who had “by no means earlier than heard the track or any of the songs that preceded it.”
“It was the primary, and can hopefully be the final, Tremendous Bowl halftime present orchestrated to assassinate the character of one other artist,” the grievance reads.
The brand new grievance additionally incorporates how UMG made important monetary investments and leveraged its skilled connections to rearrange for the huge amplification of defamatory claims to these 133 million viewers of the Tremendous Bowl and greater than 15 million viewers of the Grammys.
Drake goes on to allege that Lamar purposely excluded the phrase “pedophile” throughout his Tremendous Bowl efficiency and that “on info and perception,” he wouldn’t have been permitted to carry out until it was omitted from the lyrics. Drake‘s group claims that UMG knowingly negotiated and promoted the Tremendous Bowl efficiency after the preliminary lawsuit was filed, inflicting intentional hurt to the Canadian musician.
Michael Gottlieb, associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Drake’s lead legal professional, issued the next assertion, based on a launch despatched to BOSSIP:
“Drake’s amended grievance makes an already robust case stronger. UMG’s PR ‘spin’ and failed efforts to keep away from discovery can not suppress the information and the reality. With discovery now transferring ahead, Drake will expose the proof of UMG’s misconduct, and UMG will probably be held accountable for the results of its ill-conceived choices.”
Again in March, UMG filed a movement to dismiss the lawsuit, insisting that Drake was solely taking authorized motion as a result of he was upset that he “misplaced a rap battle.” A listening to for the go well with dismissal is at the moment scheduled for June 30.
