OHMNI

1y

also I wanted guest stages or invasions season bosses maps themed after the boss like go more Mario Party

Kr0niic

1y

This is the first actual lawsuit Drake has filed here, and it's notable both for what it contains and what it lacks. Most of the spicier civil RICO allegations from the earlier pre-action petition are gone here. The botting allegations Drake sought more info on don't seem any better substantiated in this complaint than they were in that petition, suggesting that he didn't get anything from UMG or Spotify in exchange for dropping the Order to Show Cause. It makes three claims: defamation, harassment, and deceptive business practices. I'll only speak to the defamation aspect, though I suspect it carries through.

The complaint is very long on the aspect of defamation that it is easiest for it to prove. It's a full catalog of the ways in which Not Like Us damaged Drake's reputation. I'm sympathetic to many of them. It's scary to have someone shot on your property or to have people try to break into your home. Drake claims he had to pull his kid out of school and move him to a different city, and Adonis didn't choose to have to stand behind him. A global megahit alleges pretty clearly that he's a pedophile, and that's brought out all sorts of weird conspiratorial crazies. It must be very difficult.

Unfortunately, the complaint is missing a few things.
Drake's attorneys want it to be very clear that their client is not mad at Kendrick Lamar. You should not put in the newspaper that he is suing Kendrick for losing a rap battle. The real villain in this complaint is UMG (of course, with the implication that if UMG acted properly, Kendrick would not have been able to smear Drake's name as widely as he did). But the complaint doesn't really back up its claims of conspiratorial dealings. There's still no more evidence that UMG was botting or engaging payola beyond the "whistleblower" on Ak's stream. It's hard to see here how UMG was promoting Kendrick's song in a way that was any different from how they'd promote any other hit, and there are a lot of efforts to present otherwise normal aspects of distribution as nefarious efforts to undermine Drake.

A defamation claim has to be based on something that a "reasonable person" would take as a statement of fact. The complaint has many unreasonable people seeming to take Not Like Us as fact (social media commenters), but that's not how the standard works. It's not based on what people think or do at all; it's based on what a hypothetical reasonable person, aware of the context of the statement, would think. And in this case, the context of the statement is a diss track in a rap battle, where hyperbole and outright lying are expected. Nobody reasonable should take a song or music video as proof of anything. The complaint never engages with this reality, trying to hide it behind a flood of video thumbnails and Twitter quotes.

As a legal case, this is weak and headed nowhere. But baseless defamation suits are becoming the PR bread and butter of the conservative right in particular, if not public figures generally. I think it's plausible that the goal here is to create a legal cloud over Not Like Us to make it risky to perform at the Super Bowl (and suing the record label so he can argue that he's helping the public interest rather than griping over taking an L). But I don't think it will really help. UMG has a very strong interest in making sure it's not seen as having reviewed and approved the content of every single song it publishes, so I don't expect them to back down.

Zack From The Six

1y

My statement is that anonymous online messages can hurt a human being. You disagree. Fair enough we can agree to disagree. But we've seen many, many celebs and athletes fall apart because of anonymous online messages, so I got the facts on my side

TheFader

1y

I’m sorry but when you routinely tell people things like they should be dead or that their birth was a waste of sex, you can’t be upset with the insults people throw back at you

SABMAN TURNT

1y

it’s not about whether he argues with other people

it’s about you inserting yourself whenever you see his name

ICEMAN40

1y

Bro got me making coffee as an intern. I’d rather be unemployed

mos def

1y

Already filed the LLC brother

Clear The Streets Inc ®️

CEO: Doot
COO: Sab
CFO: Blue Magic
Legal team lead: OVOJersey
HR Lead: Condom Eyes
Social Media lead: Cole2

We taking over 2025

Takotchi

1y

thats a fire idea highkey

WT777

1y

Lakers asleep at the wheel you couldn't match this??

WT777

1y

Lakers asleep at the wheel you couldn't match this??

Childhood

1y

can ak spark up i need that fat nigga to break this s*** down for me

DevilOrAngel

1y

The f*** happened itt

TheFader

1y

There’s been times I literally didn’t acknowledge him whatsoever and he somehow still roped me into the bullshit

doot doot

1y

We will be there

Zack From The Six

1y

My point was that he only tells that to the ppl who have been bullying him for months. He doesn't just randomly quote a post from a user he never interacted with before and tell them that

Zack From The Six

1y

The people he is ''insulting'' have been harassing him for months, he didn't just start saying s*** for no reason

Also, that doesn't give someone permission to joke about him being homeless

WT777

1y

Lakers asleep at the wheel you couldn't match this??

Kr0niic

1y

One time I googled album sales and
Popped up some random forum I never heard of and TGD was also in there propping up drakes numbers

https://pulsemusic.proboards.com/thread/197359/biggest-streaming-weeks-billboard-200

Sleeze

1y

If you didn’t grope twice, did you even grope at all???