Drake Initiates Legal Action Against UMG

[Nuuko]

^ thats correct. Its been confirmed Kendrick is almost like an indie artist now, UMG has no juridiction on kendrick. Experts already mentionned it.

 

[Nuuko]

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Drake supposedly said some slick shyt about Metro's mom passing, which triggered their beef

 

[Mandarin Duck]

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.

Literally everyone knew where Kendrick was going to take it, because he told us prior to NLU already lol. Actually Drake told us first now that I think about lmao.

Why did he take it there? Based on the way he was moving. His actions. You don't need to "galvanize hate" on Drake when people haven't respected how he moved for a while.

Constantly bringing up wives in rap battles.
Talking to younger girls. I honestly don't even think he's a pedo, but it's obvious even Drake heard about the public perception of him and young girls. That's why he brought it up first. He could have and should have done more to distance himself from that prior to the rap beef.

Now that's public perception.

Behind the scenes, I think he viewed himself as a pop star and a commodity to the label that is so valuable, no other artist should be allowed to disrespect him the way that Kendrick did.

I don't like that you think you can say whatever you want on a record, but your rival has to abide by rules that don't defame your character.

He thought that he could step to UMG and somehow get the label to remove the song, but once he got the word that they aren't going to, and they're going to promote it just like they would any other song for any other artist he was heated.

I feel like the blowback from the public finding out Drake successfully stopped 1 of Kendrick's disses from coming out would have been much worse for him.

This reminds me of when 50 used to say he had the power to push people's album back.

Now imagine 50 tryna pull that card at the same time he was having his falling out with Jimmy Iovine. I doubt he'd have the clout to make it happen.

Drake tried to use his success to do the same and it didn't work. It work on Push(even though he lost) worked on Meek, but not this time.

You also mentioned "FM wasn't going to be played on the radio while NLU was made to be played on the radio".

How each artist decided to approach this beef was completely up to them and the way Kendrick did, was just better.

I think FM could have been chopped up and played on the radio, but Kendrick took all the wind out that record with MTG.

 

[dangerranger]

Kendrick and Aubrey been throwing subs at each other for YEARS but all of a sudden UMG made the beef happen just so they can get Aubrey up outta here. An artist that makes them money. Coli conspiracy theories.

Yep and I stand by it. Or you think it’s a coincidence that Kendrick came guns a blazing on like that out of nowhere. All the pieces were in place when he came out to fight Drake. Or you still buying the idea that Kendrick is simply attacking Drake because of FPS? None of you ever thought why Kendrick would wait 6 months until Future’s album to address Drake when FPS came out in October? Kanye stated the intentions yet everyone pretends like he didn’t say the loud part outloud. It’s not a conspiracy when the information is right there at everyone’s fingerprints if they would just research and start asking questions instead of running with narratives that have been amplified over social media.

 

[dangerranger]

lol you dumb. That’s literally the point of being independent and licensing your music. He’s no longer under the thumb of UMG dumbass. Hence them not even knowing about GNX dropping until that morning. UMG has no jurisdiction on Kendrick

No you don’t know what you’re talking about. Artists aren’t independent the way that you think. Do some homework then get back to me

 

[pete clemenza]

If all this is going down, how can Drake even rap again? Is his rap career over?

 

[Yecht]

^ thats correct. Its been confirmed Kendrick is almost like an indie artist now, UMG has no juridiction on kendrick. Experts already mentionned it.

You are clearly a decepticon/bot. And you post just like that Turtles Owlette weirdo too just from the other side. This shyt is getting outta control

 

[Ziggiy]

I agree that discovery is definitely where this falls apart but your comparison really doesn't work.

Getting called out of your name is a matter of pride. Getting called a pedophile on a song is completely different matter. In 2024, if we're being completely honest, only the dumbest of individuals are getting someone touched (no pun intended) over some bars. If you really feel a way about something like this, going the legal route is kind've all you have, even if it's not a particularly good look.

That profile name to poster correlation…

 

[SoSoSlick]

nikkas really talkin about how labels should monitor and censor lyrics up in here?

 

[dangerranger]

Literally everyone knew where Kendrick was going to take it, because he told us prior to NLU already lol. Actually Drake told us first now that I think about lmao.

Why did he take it there? Based on the way he was moving. His actions. You don't need to "galvanize hate" on Drake when people haven't respected how he moved for a while.

Constantly bringing up wives in rap battles.
Talking to younger girls. I honestly don't even think he's a pedo, but it's obvious even Drake heard about the public perception of him and young girls. That's why he brought it up first. He could have and should have done more to distance himself from that prior to the rap beef.

Now that's public perception.

Behind the scenes, I think he viewed himself as a pop star and a commodity to the label that is so valuable, no other artist should be allowed to disrespect him the way that Kendrick did.

I don't like that you think you can say whatever you want on a record, but your rival has to abide by rules that don't defame your character.

He thought that he could step to UMG and somehow get the label to remove the song, but once he got the word that they aren't going to, and they're going to promote it just like they would any other song for any other artist he was heated.

I feel like the blowback from the public finding out Drake successfully stopped 1 of Kendrick's disses from coming out would have been much worse for him.

This reminds me of when 50 used to say he had the power to push people's album back.

Now imagine 50 tryna pull that card at the same time he was having his falling out with Jimmy Iovine. I doubt he'd have the clout to make it happen.

Drake tried to use his success to do the same and it didn't work. It work on Push(even though he lost) worked on Meek, but not this time.

You also mentioned "FM wasn't going to be played on the radio while NLU was made to be played on the radio".

How each artist decided to approach this beef was completely up to them and the way Kendrick did, was just better.

I think FM could have been chopped up and played on the radio, but Kendrick took all the wind out that record with MTG.

I think these are fair points. Where I give pushback is the timing. People say he went to the label to remove the song but when did this happen? I remember being very suspicious of how the beef ended too. NLU comes out on the 4th and heart pt 6 comes out on the 5th. Immediately, social media had declared the beef was over. You had people from TDE coming out declaring the beef is done. The narrative quickly became Drake sounds defeated and it’s done. I always said wait, who decided this? Did Dot decide? Did Drake decide? Then it became a question of UMG staying quiet while their golden boy was being dragged. Why did they stay quiet this whole time when their biggest money maker would end up in a situation as untenable as this?

The more I look the more I end up with questions. None of these hip hop journalist seem to know what’s going on or care to deep dive to the point the only people we are getting information from are compromised parties from both camps and podcasters reshuffling the same narratives they see on the internet

 

[dangerranger]

@Carl Tethers what you negging me for?

 

[Rekkapryde]

nikkas really talkin about how labels should monitor and censor lyrics up in here?

Aubrey fans have gone off the deep end.

 

[Legal]

In the 90s getting called a fakkit was as bad as getting called a pedo today.

No the fukk it wasn't, breh. One is a matter of the insulted person's opinion over how serious it is, and the other is an accusation of something tht is, was, and probably always will be actual criminal activity.

I know this is The Coli, but come on, breh.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]