The boys are STILL fighting!! This time Drake has decided to take his beef with Kendrick Lamar from the studio to the courtroom. The Canadian rapper is now suing Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick’s nuclear diss track “Not Like Us”.
This latest legal manoeuvre stems from the ongoing feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, which has been simmering since the early 2010s.
The beef reached boiling point in May 2024 when Lamar dropped “Not Like Us”, a track that didn’t just throw shade – it hurled a whole ass solar eclipse at Drake.
In the controversial song, Lamar didn’t pull any punches with lyrics like “Drake, I hear you like ’em young” and labelling him a “certified paedophile”.
Drake’s lawsuit claims that UMG promoted this track despite its “defamatory” content because they saw it as a “gold mine”.
Drake’s legal team is arguing that the song that was approved by UMG was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile”.
You can check out the song and see for yourself:
The lawsuit also cites supposed real-world consequences, including a shooting at Drake’s Toronto residence in May 2024 where “a bullet penetrated the security gate and struck Drake’s front door, while another hit and injured a security guard”.
Interestingly, Drake is also signed to UMG, but that’s not holding him back.
“The lawsuit is not about the artist who created ‘Not Like Us’,” the lawsuit says per AP News.
“It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetise allegations that it understood were not only false, but dangerous.”
UMG has disputed all allegations, issuing a statement Wednesday afternoon.
“Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist — let alone Drake — is illogical,” the company said in their statement.
“We have invested massively in his music and our employees around the world have worked tirelessly for many years to help him achieve historic commercial and personal financial success.”
Kendrick Lamar has not yet responded to the lawsuit.
This legal drama is just the latest chapter in this incredibly drawn out beef. After Lamar’s “Not Like Us” dropped, Drake clapped back with “Push Ups”, a diss track that took aim not just at Kendrick, but also at Future, Metro Boomin, Rick Ross, and The Weeknd.
Not content with one response, Drake then released “Taylor Made Freestyle”, a track that raised eyebrows by using AI-generated vocals of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. In this track, AI Tupac advises Kendrick to “Talk about him liking young girls, that’s a gift from me”, while Drake himself taunts, “The first one really only took me an hour or two/The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you”.
With Drake now suing his own record label and Kendrick yet to respond to the latest diss tracks, the hip-hop world is on it’s toes. As Drake himself put it in “Taylor Made Freestyle”: “What the fuck is taking so long? We waitin’ on you”. Indeed, we all are.
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