Drake’s label files the motion to rule out the demand ‘not like us’

Universal Music Group has presented a scathing motion to dismiss DuckNew York’s demand against them to promote Kendrick Lamar“It’s not like us,” stating that he is only demanding because “he lost a battle of rap” and took legal measures to “save his wounds.”

The motion, presented today and reviewed by VarietyHe adopted a cutting approach to present the case of dismissal, claiming that Drake “lost a rap battle that caused and in which he participated voluntarily. instead of accepting the loss as the rap artist without problems that he often says he is, he has sued his own record label in a wrong attempt to save his wounds. The complaint of the plaintiff is completely without merit and must be dismissed with damage.”

The presentation indicates that Drake himself signed a public request less than three years criticizing “the trend of prosecutors using the creative expression of the artists against them” when interpreting rap letters as a fact. “Drake was at that time and is wrong now,” says the motion. “The unjustified statements of the complaint against UMG are nothing more than Drake’s attempt to save his face for his failed rap battle with Lamar.”

Drake initially filed his New York demand in January, claiming that Universal “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral blow of a rap track” that was “aimed at transmitting the specific, unmistakable and false objective accusation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and suggesting that the public should resort to vigilant justice.” “No Like Us” arrived last May and became the greatest success to emerge from Res-Drake meat, what Drake says is because universal artificially inflated the track.

In his farewell motion, Universal argues that Drake does not make a claim of defamation in his demand, stating that it is a double standard to wait for his album courts against Lamar and not vice versa. The motion adds that “not like us” “transmits a non -comparable opinion and rhetorical hyperbole, not a fact”, which means that they cannot be accused of acting with malice, and affirm that there is no basis for demand since Drake could not declare a claim for “harassment in second degree” and under the general commercial law of New York.

That same month, Universal presented a motion to dismiss the separate request of Drake of deposition prior to demand in Texas, citing the lack of evidence in the rapper’s claims against the record company that inflated artificially and promoted “not like us.”