Drake Initiates Legal Action Against UMG

[DPresidential]

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

Which one so I can answer properly.

 

[Feed-Me]

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.

Who green lit the track Drake put out with Ai pac? Coz pacs Estate had it pulled with a quickness. No?

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

How much more do I need to spell this out?

His label, tanked his viability in their renegotiation.

Bro, UMG didn’t make Drake call out Kendrick.

 

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Drake makes wild claim that Apple was paid to ‘purposely misdirect’ Siri requests toward rival Kendrick Lamar’s song - 9to5Mac

Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s ongoing feud has now pulled Apple into the dispute, with Drake making a wild claim about Siri and Apple Music.

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Drake makes wild claim that Apple was paid to ‘purposely misdirect’ Siri requests toward rival Kendrick Lamar’s song​

Ryan Christoffel | Nov 26 2024 - 12:01 pm PT
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Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud appears to have no end in sight, and now Apple is unwittingly getting pulled into the complicated affair thanks to a possible Siri malfunction and Apple Music.

Apple gets dragged into messy artist rivalry​

According to Billboard, Drake is taking legal action against his music label, Universal Music Group (UMG), as well as Spotify.

The artist claims the two conspired to boost rival Kendrick Lamar’s song ‘Not Like Us’ in which Lamar makes a big allegation against Drake.

But it’s not just UMG and Spotify who are in the hot seat with Drake. In a legal filing in Manhattan this week, the artist alleges that Apple is involved too.
From the legal filing:

On information and belief, UMG paid, or approved payments to, Apple Inc. to have its voice-activated digital assistant “Siri” purposely misdirect users to “Not Like Us.” Online sources reported that when users asked Siri to play the album “Certified Loverboy” by recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham d/b/a Drake, Siri instead played “Not Like Us,” which contains the lyric “certified pedophile,” an allegation against Drake.

Apple hasn’t technically been accused of any legal wrongdoing, since the target here is Universal Music Group.

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The part they leave out is that the lyric right before the one they cited is “certified loverboy,” meaning Siri was keying in on an actual lyric to Not Like Us. There’s no conspiracy here, just Siri misinterpreting the albums name as a lyric.

Drake looks like such a little baby doing all this.
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That said, it’s a really wild claim, and one that could either be assumed a fabrication or, perhaps, a result of Siri’s not-so-amazing track record.

Is it possible that Siri played Lamar’s song by accident at times? Sure. I’ve seen Siri make all kinds of bizarre mistakes at times.

But Apple essentially taking a bribe to boost a hit song from Drake’s rival via Siri and Apple Music? That’s an extremely bizarre shot to take at the company. One that lacks weight behind it, not just because of how farfetched it sounds, but also because Drake isn’t actually taking legal action against the company.

What do you make of this story? Let us know in the comments.

 

[Deltron]

drake is a retard

 

[QU Hectic]

that fact he threatened to sued degrassi for puttin his character in a wheelchair...

 

[Smokin Rider]

You aint answer my question..was it $25/hr?

You are one pathetic fakkit..cant believe you thought you was doing something by working the graveyard shift for chump change.

Eat a glass dikk

Much more

But Its like you said, you can't tell a grown man what to do, and I'll give a broke lame like you no explanation cause youre a 40 yr old soft sissy named Lavish

 

[BukowCrow]

Which one so I can answer properly.

Rodriguez v. Panayiotou

 

[Hov]

These bots are so lifelike now

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

drake is a retard

Drake aka Nino brown

 

[Lavish]

Much more

Much more? What we lookin at $27/hr? $28/hr ?

Why you scared nikka? you was talkin a big game over the summer until I pulled your hoe card and had nikkas clowning you

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

I still remember when they made fun of Kendrick for not being "battle tested"

Casuals

Dot started off battle rapping

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

People Talking

Completely different mood IMO. Jay dropped that on the Clue tape and I started worrying for Nas cause I thought grimy Vol. I Jay was about to jump off the top rope. Nah, it was just a desperate attempt to get the people back on your side after they already decided you took the L. I think it was Bomani who says Jay was making disses for the public while Nas was making disses for an audience of one. Same applies here.

 

[Smokin Rider]

Much more? What we lookin at $27/hr? $28/hr ?

Why you scared nikka? you was talkin a big game over the summer until I pulled your hoe card and had nikkas clowning you

Nobody has ever laughed at your jokes, they laugh at you. You never even get daps on your posts goofy, but you ran to the mods when I hurt your feelings and got yourself banned for crashing out over Drake at 40. You have a sad existence broke boy

 

[DPresidential]

How much more do I need to spell this out?

His label, tanked his viability in their renegotiation.

So, you believe a court is going to set a precedent with a ruling that

1. Actions taken to allow the increased distribution of other artists' music,
2. Regardless of whether you are or are not mentioned on said music,
3. Without substantial evidence that YOUR music was suppressed

Could be grounds for the declaration of damages.


Insanity

Edit: what I mean by insane is NO COURT IS going to set this precedent.