Drake Files Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against UMG Over ‘Not Like Us’

Drake will not be backing down within the warfare towards his personal label, in reality 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 realized.

Drake filed the defamation case Wednesday morning in federal courtroom in NYC … ripping UMG for releasing and selling Kendrick Lamar‘s vicious diss observe, “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 have been false and harmful.

Within the swimsuit he calls Kendrick’s hit — stuffed with “inflammatory and shocking 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 all the pieces it might to pump up “Not Like Us” as a result of it knew it could devalue his music and model … and, due to this fact, give UMG leverage in future contract negotiations with Drake.

Take note, Drake’s final UMG contract, signed in 2022, was a blockbuster deal value a reported $400 million!

Drake says he is bought bot receipts to indicate simply how far the label went to show Kendrick’s track into an anthem. In keeping with the swimsuit, UMG paid a 3rd get together to make use of bots to extend the track’s streams by at the very least 30 million — and engaged in a “pay for play” scheme with at the very least one radio promoter.

He claims UMG hooked up the label “chart-topper” to “Not Like Us,” regardless of realizing that title was based mostly on fraudulent information.

It is also clear Drake’s very aware of what is going on down in New Orleans subsequent month — within the swimsuit, he claims UMG was in on getting Kendrick the Super Bowl Halftime gig … so, the track could possibly be carried out on that huge stage, which he calls “one of the most significant (and viewed) cultural events of the year.”

Ya gotta marvel — will the NFL and FOX, which is airing the Tremendous Bowl, permit Kendrick to make use of the pedophile lyrics when he performs??

Apparently, Drake is not going immediately after Kendrick within the swimsuit — in reality, he says, “This lawsuit is not about the artist who created ‘Not Like Us.’ It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize” the track which it knew contained false claims.

As for the way the track put Drake in peril … he factors out that since Kendrick dropped the megahit there have been multiple shootings at or close to his Toronto mansion, one among which ended with one among his safety guards getting shot.