Hours before Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance, Drake’s team issued a statement aimed at his record label, UMG, calling their support of the Compton rapper “gross.”
“UMG is masquerading as a champion of artistic freedom by calling its actions merely ‘entertainment’, but there is nothing entertaining about pedophilia or child abuse in the real world,” Drizzy’s legal team told the New York Times.
Drake sued the Universal Music Group for defamation and harassment, over its release of “Not Like Us,” accusing the record label of establishing “a campaign to create a viral hit” out of a song that made the “false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response”.
The lawsuit came after a major rap back and forth with Kendrick where K.Dot alluded to the Canadian rapper being interested in minors and Drizzy accused Kendrick of being a woman beater and claimed his wife cheated on him with his longtime business partner, Dave Free.
Now that Kendrick has performed the song on a global stage, fans are expecting a new wave of legal challenges.
“We are confident that the evidence we will ultimately present at trial—including information we’ve already learned and continue to receive since filing the lawsuit—will expose UMG’s gross prioritization of its own corporate profits and executive bonuses over its exclusively signed artists’ well-being and the truth,” the statement continues.