Drake just added fuel to the fire in his fight with Universal Music Group.
He updated his lawsuit to include Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance, calling it a full-on character assassination.
He said Kendrick’s diss track “Not Like Us” was pushed to “millions of children” during the show and called it: “The first, and will hopefully be the last, Super Bowl halftime show orchestrated to assassinate the character of another artist.”
Drake also pointed out how Kendrick muted the word “pedophile” live, using that as more proof he was being defamed.
He went on to mention the Grammys, where Kendrick’s diss track played in front of 15 million people. He claims UMG had to give that the green light.
Originally, Drake accused UMG of using bots to juice up “Not Like Us” streams, based on what someone said during an Akademiks livestream.
However, in this new update, he backed off that part and said: “UMG was aware that third parties were using bots to stream the recording and turned a blind eye, despite having the power to stop such behavior.”
His lawyers added: “Drake’s amended complaint makes an already strong case stronger. UMG’s PR “spin” and failed efforts to avoid discovery cannot suppress the facts and the truth. With discovery now moving forward, Drake will expose the evidence of UMG’s misconduct, and UMG will be held accountable for the consequences of its ill-conceived decisions.”
UMG fired back, calling it all nonsense “Drake is being misled by his legal team into taking one absurd legal step after another.”
They said he already dropped a case in Texas quietly after hyping it up, and warned: “Be careful what you wish for.”
