Drake extended his lawsuit about defamation against the Universal Music Group, saying that more people were deceived, believing that he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick Lamar made Not like us During the Super Bowl show and Grammy Awards.
In a changed complaint made late Wednesday in the evening against his label Drake, he said that the performances introduced millions of new listeners to Lamar's hit and led to greater threats to the Canadian rapper and his family.
Drake said that it happened, although Lamar omitted the word “pedophile” in his performance Super Bowl, seen by over 133 million people, allegedly because “almost everyone understands” that it was defamatory.
“It was the first and I hope that it would be the last, the Super Bowl show during an organized break to murder the figure of another artist,” said Drake in the lawsuit.
Not like us It also includes “Drake lyric, I hear you like you young”, which Lamar sang in Super Bowl.
In a statement from Thursday, UMG called Drake accusations for free, and his lawsuit was an affront for creative expression.
“Drake, undoubtedly one of the most famous artists in the world and with whom we enjoyed 16 years of success, is misleading by his legal representatives to take one absurd legal step after the second,” said UMG.
The allegation of UMG increased Lamar's music
UMG tried to reject Drake's original lawsuit, submitted on January 15 at the Federal Court in Manhattan and would have the chance to dismiss the changed trial.
Drake is looking for indefinite damage, claiming that UMG tried to increase his profit and make him a pariah, promoting Lamar. In the changed trial, he claims that UMG “made significant financial investments and used his professional connections” to make an appointment especially for Not like us To be done in Super Bowl.
He also claimed that the performance in Super Bowl presented the song “Millions more who had Never (sic), before he heard a song or everyone (sic) songs that preceded them. “
“UMG will be held responsible for the consequences of his misunderstood decisions,” said Drake's lawyer Michael Gottlieb in a statement.
Drake and Lamar have been fighting for about a decade, including through a series of competing DIS paths.
Not like us was released on May 4, one day after Drake's Family matters It seemed that he accused Lamar of physical abuse and infidelity and questioned the origin of one of his children.
Lamar's song won Grammy Awards for the album and Song of the Year, and Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks.
Drake's name is Aubrey Drake Graham. Lamar, American, won the Pulitzer 2018 award for music.