Rapper Drake is suing Universal Music Group, claiming defamation over the promotion and distribution of Kendrick Lamar's diss track, 'Not Like Us'. Drake's lawsuit alleges the track's shocking accusations, including pedophilia claims, led to real-world consequences like break-ins and assaults. Legal experts warn the lawsuit may backfire, drawing unwanted attention to the allegations and potentially reinforcing Lamar's message about Drake's authenticity.
Rapper Drake , pictured in 2019, is seeking a trial by jury on allegations that Universal Music Group defamed him by promoting and distributing Kendrick Lamar’s diss track, Not Like Us.
On Wednesday, after a year of brutal beef with L.A.’s Pulitzer Prize-winning emcee Kendrick Lamar, the Toronto-and-Texas rapper Drakeagainst Universal Music Group, the record company behind both superstars. He is seeking a trial by jury on allegations that the label defamed him by promoting and distributing Lamar’s blistering diss track,became a Billboard No. 1 hit for more than 20 weeks.
But this isn’t even the first time Drake forgot about the Streisand Effect in the past year. It’s easy to forget that, in the heat of the rapid-fire back-and-forth diss tracks between them last spring, that it was Drake himself who first brought up the sexual predation allegations against him in. That provided an opening for Lamar to amplify claims that had, to that point, been simmering quietly in the more fanatical fringes of the internet.
But times have changed, and rap is more than art and entertainment now – a message that was recently sent by an Atlanta judge who accepted rapper Young Thug’s lyrics as evidence in a racketeering case against him, despite the argument that they constituted protected speech.
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