Apr 2, 2025·1 reply
ICEMAN40
Fam what is up with this quality
Apr 2, 2025·1 replyhttps://twitter.com/havavava1330986/status/1907497952106430795
mmonayNot sure if this has been reported earlier but probably should be something to update in OP
this is literally a month old
its from UMG's response to have STAY OF DISCOVERY back in early march
Apr 2, 2025Is the title true?
Apr 2, 2025
CRACKASTEPPAVEGANWait, wasn't this the main argument, or at least a major angle in the defamation suit
No, that was the angle for the texas payola peitition that was withdrawn this year.
- ICEMAN40 🧤Apr 2, 2025·1 replyKellzz
Fam what is up with this quality
I posted it, saw it, and just gave up. - Apr 2, 2025
BrickellBaysideI mean, you're not wrong I'm just spitballing
but nah,I don't think it's Drake being petty at all, he's going after his money. Which, he should.
EYE just don't think he truly believes that UMG used NLU to defame him or w/e and that this has more to do with him feeling like they been playing w/his next deal for awhile and is using the NLU angle to get it.
Because again, if UMG was truly in the business of defaming drake, they wouldn't be pushing Nokia, they have shareholders to respond to and market shares to keep and what not.
I don't see Drake remaining on UMG after this trial and I think this s*** runs a lot deeper than NLU. I think this is something that's been brewing for years now. We'll see if I end up being right but it's definitely an interesting case. I hope it ends up going to trial so we see all the cards on the table on both sides and finally make some sense of this whole thing.
Apr 2, 2025·1 replyICEMAN40 I posted it, saw it, and just gave up.the heart part 6 synopsis be like
Apr 2, 2025Niggas not even making up their own gimmick accounts anymore, they stealing names 💔
- Apr 2, 2025·edited·2 repliesBrickellBayside
My thing has always been that buddy is literally under contract right now, and may have the #3 song in the country next week
The same label that's the boogeyman is now giving Nokia the Not Like Us treatment...okay. I don't even think Drake fans believe that that makes sense
https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1907531595936108777This isn't the gotcha you think it is. $$$4U is primarily released via OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. UMG is only added to the copyright and licensing of the album because Drake is also a primary artist on the album and he's still under contract with them.
It says a lot that this is the first Drake collab album to be released as "other artist & Drake." UMG usually takes primary/sole copyright on Drake's collab albums and they handle all the promotion. That's not what's happening here.
All the promotion of $$$4U is being handled by OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. They're the ones releasing the physicals, they're the ones pushing the singles on radio and Drake paid for the Nokia video himself.
UMG isn't pushing this album in any way and they're in no way responsible for the success of the album.
Apr 2, 2025BrickellBaysideSadly, that s*** flopped.
Which sucks because Blue Green Red, Housekeeping Knows, and a few others on them s***s was smashes.
But just proof that even Drake can't truly get s*** jumping alone.
I think he released them way too soon. Imagine if he dropped em in this climate
goretex 💁🏽♂️Apr 2, 2025BrickellBaysideMy thing has always been that buddy is literally under contract right now, and may have the #3 song in the country next week
The same label that's the boogeyman is now giving Nokia the Not Like Us treatment...okay. I don't even think Drake fans believe that that makes sense
https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1907531595936108777this is because of his owls and his natural hitmaking ability
- goretex 💁🏽♂️Apr 2, 2025thegreatdivine· edited
This isn't the gotcha you think it is. $$$4U is primarily released via OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. UMG is only added to the copyright and licensing of the album because Drake is also a primary artist on the album and he's still under contract with them.
It says a lot that this is the first Drake collab album to be released as "other artist & Drake." UMG usually takes primary/sole copyright on Drake's collab albums and they handle all the promotion. That's not what's happening here.
All the promotion of $$$4U is being handled by OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. They're the ones releasing the physicals, they're the ones pushing the singles on radio and Drake paid for the Nokia video himself.
UMG isn't pushing this album in any way and they're in no way responsible for the success of the album.
get em
- Apr 2, 2025·2 repliesBrickellBayside
Sadly, that s*** flopped.
Which sucks because Blue Green Red, Housekeeping Knows, and a few others on them s***s was smashes.
But just proof that even Drake can't truly get s*** jumping alone.
Wrong. Drake released them for free. They were never intended to be released on DSPs. UMG forcibly uploaded them on DSPs and that's why Drake did next to nothing to promote them. UMG also didn't promote them. None of the songs were serviced to radio as singles or nothing. That's why they flopped. They weren't released properly because they were never intended to be released on DSPs by Drake.
- Apr 2, 2025·2 repliesthegreatdivine· edited
This isn't the gotcha you think it is. $$$4U is primarily released via OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. UMG is only added to the copyright and licensing of the album because Drake is also a primary artist on the album and he's still under contract with them.
It says a lot that this is the first Drake collab album to be released as "other artist & Drake." UMG usually takes primary/sole copyright on Drake's collab albums and they handle all the promotion. That's not what's happening here.
All the promotion of $$$4U is being handled by OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group. They're the ones releasing the physicals, they're the ones pushing the singles on radio and Drake paid for the Nokia video himself.
UMG isn't pushing this album in any way and they're in no way responsible for the success of the album.
It doesn't say much.
He made an album with an OVO Sound artist, and he basically as per the terms of his deal w/UMG decided to make an album with an artist on the label he co owns. He has an allotment of features that he can use on OVO Sound, which he basically used to make the album.
PND is the primary artist because on the album because UMG wouldn't allow Drake to put out an album right now as a primary artist, given the 'issues' he's having with the label
That being said, there's a couple of songs that are Drake only, or PND only, like Deeper. The latter is being worked by Santa Anna, the former is being worked by Republic. Santa Anna is working the records that PND is lead on.
They are 100% treating Nokia and Gimmie a Hug as a typical drake single.
- Apr 2, 2025·1 replythegreatdivine
Wrong. Drake released them for free. They were never intended to be released on DSPs. UMG forcibly uploaded them on DSPs and that's why Drake did next to nothing to promote them. UMG also didn't promote them. None of the songs were serviced to radio as singles or nothing. That's why they flopped. They weren't released properly because they were never intended to be released on DSPs by Drake.
It's not wrong.
You're essentially saying what I'm saying.
He put them out there for free, seeing if they could catch on. Hence the IG story that I quoted. And it flopped because they didn't do anything.
Yeah UMG forced him to put them on DSP's, because he's a signed artist, and no they weren't pushed as singles or anything like that. I'm in agreement there.
I'm simply saying that Drake putting a record out for free w/o Label support looks one way...and Drake putting a record out through his record label looks way different.
- Apr 2, 2025·1 replyBrickellBayside
It doesn't say much.
He made an album with an OVO Sound artist, and he basically as per the terms of his deal w/UMG decided to make an album with an artist on the label he co owns. He has an allotment of features that he can use on OVO Sound, which he basically used to make the album.
PND is the primary artist because on the album because UMG wouldn't allow Drake to put out an album right now as a primary artist, given the 'issues' he's having with the label
That being said, there's a couple of songs that are Drake only, or PND only, like Deeper. The latter is being worked by Santa Anna, the former is being worked by Republic. Santa Anna is working the records that PND is lead on.
They are 100% treating Nokia and Gimmie a Hug as a typical drake single.
Could you post the copy of drakes' contract with umg that you have on hand?
- Apr 2, 2025PapiChampu
Could you post the copy of drakes' contract with umg that you have on hand?
okay brb
- Apr 2, 2025Deezed
this is literally a month old
its from UMG's response to have STAY OF DISCOVERY back in early march
It very well could be however many users are still under the impression that the song is/was being botted and the lawsuit still included that content.
From my understanding, UMG and drakes team were exchanging letters and it was brought up again that it will be removed from the lawsuit.
- Apr 2, 2025BrickellBayside
It doesn't say much.
He made an album with an OVO Sound artist, and he basically as per the terms of his deal w/UMG decided to make an album with an artist on the label he co owns. He has an allotment of features that he can use on OVO Sound, which he basically used to make the album.
PND is the primary artist because on the album because UMG wouldn't allow Drake to put out an album right now as a primary artist, given the 'issues' he's having with the label
That being said, there's a couple of songs that are Drake only, or PND only, like Deeper. The latter is being worked by Santa Anna, the former is being worked by Republic. Santa Anna is working the records that PND is lead on.
They are 100% treating Nokia and Gimmie a Hug as a typical drake single.
So, in one post, you say all UMG cares about is making money and they'd never sabotage Drake because that'd mean them f***ing with their money but now you're saying why $$$4U didn't drop with Drake as a primary artist is because UMG won't let him drop an album as a primary artist because he's suing them? Make it make sense. It's either one or the other. It can't be both.
UMG agreed to release the album. They could have fought for it to not drop. They didn't. You're saying they're promoting Gimme a Hug and Nokia (they're actually not, that's OVO Sound/Santa Anna Label Group pushing ALL the songs off the album on radio and handling all the promotion, they're just adding UMG as the secondary label because they're also on the copyright).
UMG's whole case is that they're not trying to sabotage Drake in any way and would never do that to him so they won't ever block him from dropping music. That'd make them look like bullies when they're being accused by Drake in Federal court for sabotage.
What they can do and are currently doing, is doing absolutely nothing to promote said music. Nothing Drake has released post-beef has been promoted by UMG. That's by design. They're not the ones pushing Gimme a Hug or Nokia on radio. Even the usual playlisting Drake gets when a new album drops was missing when $$$4U dropped. That's because UMG removed their hands from promoting the album in any way.
- Apr 2, 2025BrickellBayside
It's not wrong.
You're essentially saying what I'm saying.
He put them out there for free, seeing if they could catch on. Hence the IG story that I quoted. And it flopped because they didn't do anything.
Yeah UMG forced him to put them on DSP's, because he's a signed artist, and no they weren't pushed as singles or anything like that. I'm in agreement there.
I'm simply saying that Drake putting a record out for free w/o Label support looks one way...and Drake putting a record out through his record label looks way different.
Well, duh. You can't promote a song on radio without a record label and he is currently signed to UMG. The point of 100 Gigs wasn't for Drake to prove he could go #1 without UMG. Those songs were never going to have their downloads count on the charts.
I don't want to speculate on why he dropped those songs that way but I imagine he had his reasons and they play into this lawsuit somehow.
Apr 2, 2025BrickellBaysideMy thing has always been that buddy is literally under contract right now, and may have the #3 song in the country next week
The same label that's the boogeyman is now giving Nokia the Not Like Us treatment...okay. I don't even think Drake fans believe that that makes sense
https://twitter.com/talkofthecharts/status/1907531595936108777Awkward blatant drakeo bite going number one for 8 million sun cycles is not the same as a fun smash hit banger only reaching number 3
- Apr 2, 2025
Patiently awaiting an update Scottie
- Apr 2, 2025
twitter narratives dont work with a federal judge
- Apr 2, 2025·1 reply
so if the botting material is being removed like I am reading, it kind of kind of changes into more of a defamation case..
- ICEMAN40 🧤Apr 2, 2025LUKAS
the heart part 6 synopsis be like
this wasn’t funny (I laughed out loud)