Drake Initiates Legal Action Against UMG

[Goat poster]

I think all of these questions is valid. This forum could be a great place for musical discussions if you had posters talking back and forth to ask the correct questions and get better answers.

There is a reason these guys were dropping songs on YouTube and IG first opposed to the DSPs. Even watch the party die is not on the DSP unless you look hard.

I suspect foul play because I harped on the numbers because something has always been off with them throughout the beef. If people don’t want to believe that fine. What I have an issue is this narrative that Dot came out of nowhere and beat Drake fair and square in a 1:1 when there needed to be more things to go right for Dot when he decided to be vocal than any other time. I’m an avid believer that corporate politics and these labels facing economic strife that is behind this beef at this current time and it’s curious to me how us hip hop fans get played time and time again using the same old tactics.

I’ll leave it at that. I’ll come back when further news breaks validating some of my points. If not, I’ll gladly come back and admit where I was wrong. See yall at the finish line.

ya mans is done and your fighting a losing battle


sorry

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

UMG cheated and they’re gonna wave it in his face. Its over.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

that mf @hex don’t miss

 

[MicIsGod]

Have you ever thought that ovo is working for me

 

[Rekkapryde]

A conspiracy because he lost.




He was keke'ing it up before Euphoria, MTG, and NLU dropped. The whole planet calling his corny ass pedo got him

that's what happens in rap battles.

But now trying to shift the narrative to you got setup? Karen ass bozo.

And still got that defamation lawsuit against Kendrick? What about that?

Cancel that beige bytch.

 

[Edub]

It’s over

 

[Midwest]

i need you brothas to know that there are 30 and 40 year old men on this forum logging into aliases they haven’t used for years to defend drake

These dudes are fukking PATHETIC

I’d say ima pray for yall but I’d be lying. Yall are scum

The mod always for the culture!

 

[derro13]

Drake was never good to begin with anyway. He has absolutely no project that could crack the top 100 albums

Even Ja Rule got 1

 

[Canon]

A conspiracy because he lost.




He was keke'ing it up before Euphoria, MTG, and NLU dropped. The whole planet calling his corny ass pedo got him

that's what happens in rap battles.

But now trying to shift the narrative to you got setup? Karen ass bozo.

And still got that defamation lawsuit against Kendrick? What about that?

Cancel that beige bytch.

They been doing the most all summer. Conspiracy theories all over the place to defend this fukking cac.

 

[Yecht]

i need you brothas to know that there are 30 and 40 year old men on this forum logging into aliases they haven’t used for years to defend drake

These dudes are fukking PATHETIC

I’d say ima pray for yall but I’d be lying. Yall are scum

My brother in christ, you are a mod. Isn't having aliases a TOS violation? Me, @Westbama Heartthrob , and @2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat about to file a joint lawsuit against theColi.com to get Nap and his band of merry snake charmers the fukk outta here

 

[bigde09]

So this is how it ends?

We've entered the acceptance stage

 

[Ziggiy]

If UMG did drake dirty why wouldn't he sue, if it wasn't drake yall wouldn't be protecting a corporation.

 

[BukowCrow]

So I had some time from my actual legal work to research this shyt,

I should not have been surprised to see that UMG had been brought into a suit before with an individual (Armen Boladian), as plaintiff, claiming the defendants (Warren G) and UMG defamed him by allowing a song with libelous lyrics to be distributed.

The case: Boladian v. UMG Recordings, Inc., 123 F. App'x. 165, 170 (6th Cir. 2005)

The song was called "Speed Dreamin" featuring Warren G.

The 6th Circuit of Appeals dismissed the claim for failing "to state a viable claim of defamation" because it "premises liability solely upon the theory that the retail chain sold Speed Dreamin and reasonably should have known that the entire composition including the Lyrics would be publicly available on the internet at a number of websites within days or weeks of its release."

The court opined that allowing such a claim would "potentially have a chilling effect upon protected speech because retailers, in an abundance of caution, might stop selling some categories of artistic products, such as rap music, to avoid liability."

The court even discusses the subject of "unjust enrichment."

Essentially, since "Boladian was unable to show that their defamation claim against defendants was viable, their derivative claim of unjust enrichment" also fails.

Most importantly, the court highlighted the defamation claims must be based on objectively verifiable facts. Statements that are subjective, hyperbolic, or rhetorical in nature are protected under the First Amendment and do not meet the standard for defamation. The court higlighted that context is critical in determining whether a statement is actionable, and in the Boladian v. UMG case, the lyrics in "Speed Dreamin" were deemed expressive, exaggerated speech typical of the rap genre, NOT FACTUAL ASSERTIONS.

There is another case that I'll speak on and is mentioned in the above case involving the pop singer George Michael, Rodriguez v. Panayiotou, 314 F. 3d 979 (9th Cir. 2002).

I have to catch my train...I'll finish soon

Aight, so, I'll keep it simple,

George Michael had a sexual encounter with someone. He sung about it in his song and the court actually allowed the person to sue George because the context of the lyrics combined with a truely verifiable situation could have the public believe this could be a true depiction of the incident.

Not a lawyer but wasn’t that case dismissed and the court essentially ruled that freedom of speech, especially for public figures, is protected?

 

[derro13]

Lefty Gunplay in new interview saying if you file a suit because the other guy was better you're just a hoe "drake, you a hoe"