NEW YORK, Jan 16 — Rapper Drake yesterday filed suit against his own label, saying Universal Music Group’s release and promotion of a Kendrick Lamar track dissing him amounted...
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Motac: Investigation underway into travel agency for allegedly failing to fly umrah pilgrims, RM2.13m loss claims, as cops probe caseDrake filed a suit against his own label, saying that Universal Music Group’s release and promotion of a Kendrick Lamar track dissing him amounted to defamation and harassment.
In his suit, Drake said Universal betrayed him in favor of profits by promoting the song with punchlines that accuse him of pedophilia., Drake says Universal “approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.
It cited a pre-dawn shooting last May that saw a gunman wound a security guard at the superstar rapper’s estate in Toronto, and described subsequent break-in attempts.Drake — the reigning highest-grossing rapper — is not taking legal action against Lamar, and he is not suing over the lyrics themselves.
Universal’s statement yesterday vowed to “vigorously defend this litigation to protect our people and our reputation.”The label noted that in the past Drake has “intentionally and successfully used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to engage in conventionally outrageous back-and-forth ‘rap battles’ to express his feelings about other artists.”
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