Drake Initiates Legal Action Against UMG

[Left.A1]

Embarrassing

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Smh people can’t see the forest from the trees. It’s pretty simple. No artist gets to just put their songs on DSPs without approval. Which is why the question should have been on May 4th who from the label gave the green light to put out NLU. It’s not simply about it being a rap battle. Despite these guys being artist, they are a brand, they are a business. The fallout from damaging Drake’s brand has had the intended ripple effect as seen. Someone at the label or DSP had to have known what Kendrick was going to say on NLU and gave the approval. No matter what anyone says Drake is a money maker for multiple groups, so to allow a song that called him a pedo to be blasted around the whole world is telling. We all know FM a 7 minute song was not going to go viral and be played on the radio. NLU was made to be a hit and pushed as such despite the implications in the song. This never was just a rap battle. I can’t understand why people can’t wrap their head around this. I can’t even understand how most people don’t even realize how the masses have been galvanized to hate ‘Drake’ as an artist not the person, in 8 months. These blogs and podcasters all repeating the same talking points which get picked up and repeated by tik tokers. No one questions the bizarreness of all of this.

These children growing up typing in phones their entire lives aren't learning about paragraphs.

Ain't no one reading this shyt dog

You may as well have just cried in the rain.

 

[bigde09]

Smh people can’t see the forest from the trees. It’s pretty simple. No artist gets to just put their songs on DSPs without approval. Which is why the question should have been on May 4th who from the label gave the green light to put out NLU. It’s not simply about it being a rap battle. Despite these guys being artist, they are a brand, they are a business. The fallout from damaging Drake’s brand has had the intended ripple effect as seen. Someone at the label or DSP had to have known what Kendrick was going to say on NLU and gave the approval. No matter what anyone says Drake is a money maker for multiple groups, so to allow a song that called him a pedo to be blasted around the whole world is telling. We all know FM a 7 minute song was not going to go viral and be played on the radio. NLU was made to be a hit and pushed as such despite the implications in the song. This never was just a rap battle. I can’t understand why people can’t wrap their head around this. I can’t even understand how most people don’t even realize how the masses have been galvanized to hate ‘Drake’ as an artist not the person, in 8 months. These blogs and podcasters all repeating the same talking points which get picked up and repeated by tik tokers. No one questions the bizarreness of all of this.

 

[dangerranger]

These children growing up typing in phones their entire lives aren't learning about paragraphs.

Ain't no one reading this shyt dog

You may as well have just cried in the rain.

bruh I’m just trying to have a well rounded conversation with the people that’s interested. I write a lot because I try to bring a lot of context and nuance to situation at hand. I can’t help it if people in these threads go off erroneous information and inaccurate opinions.


I brought many of my points up since the beef started and indicated the oddness since March. Interesting to see the same things I was questioning is becoming more relevant as time passes.

 

[Kuro]

Drake saying dot defamed him when drake defamed dot first really is some bytch shyt.

 

[Umoja]

Wop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Dot, fukk 'em up.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

bruh I’m just trying to have a well rounded conversation with the people that’s interested. I write a lot because I try to bring a lot of context and nuance to situation at hand. I can’t help it if people in these threads go off erroneous information and inaccurate opinions.


I brought many of my points up since the beef started and indicated the oddness since March. Interesting to see the same things I was questioning is becoming more relevant as time passes.

Bruh - I actually love and respect that you want to have a spirited conversation. I'm just saying - don't ever post a block of text like that and think people are reading it.

All the context and nuance you think you're bringing instead just looks like the uninterrupted musings of a mad man.

 

[Reality Check]

We all know FM a 7 minute song was not going to go viral and be played on the radio.

you sure about that? Because just yesterday you said this:

About the numbers it never made sense that Family Matters numbers were so low after it was Drake’s official response to Euphoria. There was clear suppression especially for the bigger artist. I always said if Drake is UMG’s biggest artist and they usually juice the system in his benefit why did they turn off his juice when he was getting his *ss kicked.

There is no logical reason that everyone would listen to meet the grahams and not Family Matters especially since they basically dropped 40 minutes apart. It was Drake’s big response to the beef to date. How can you have two people in a beef yet the bigger artist in terms of popularity his response is the one that gets listened to the least at that moment? It’s the equivalent of Drake dropping back to back and no one listened because Kendrick dropped another song right after. It doesn’t add up without some level of manipulation.

So which is it, was there suppression/manipulation going on to limit Family Matters reach or was this not meant to go viral even though Drake filmed a video for it and every diss he's released has gone viral?

 

[Theo Penn]

On repeat in the gym right now

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[Hood Critic]

Party really somewhere playing with his nose now, Drake done killed the album before the rollout.

 

[Illmagic]

Can’t believe there are people defending this shyt… lol suing after a rap beef…

Y’all really have no shame.

Yea I thought this would be unanimous. I thought regardless of who we had winning we ALL could agree this is unacceptable

Family Matters>>>>>>NLU

But Drake is forever a sucka for this. I imagine this gets settled out of court but imagine if it doesn’t. Are they gonna be in court listening to NLU to determine if it meets the criteria. I hope the judge is a hip head and tosses this shyt out of spite .

 

[Germms]

What’s fukkin me up is if Drake had just stfu for about 6 months he’d be straight.

 

[dangerranger]

you sure about that? Because just yesterday you said this:





So which is it, was there suppression/manipulation going on to limit Family Matters reach or was this not meant to go viral even though Drake filmed a video for it and every diss he's released has gone viral?

I said suppression in terms of streaming for Family matters on the DSPs not in terms of radio. Thats why I’m saying FM was never going to get radio play being as long as it was. As you said Drake dropped a video in response to the beef. The video dropped the same time as the song. The only person in the beef to create the a video at the time, this is the climax of the battle and at the climax the narrative is that nobody decided to pay as much attention to the guy everyone’s saying was industry backed winner? This logic doesnt make sense that everyone tuned into the battle would listen to MTG and not FM. I watched on YouTube as MTG had more listens than FM. So even when we talk about the battle of public perception something is off. Only now The numbers between the two songs are more even keeled.

I always say if you want a better picture of what’s been happening pay attention to the numbers and who’s speaking and who is not.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Drake had no problem when every playlist on Spotify was Drake featuring Drake. Had Drake in a cowboy hat for the country fans. Had Drake in a leather jacket for the metal heads