RAPPER Drake has filed a new lawsuit against his own record label, accusing them of pushing an “inflammatory and dangerous narrative” by promoting rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track.
The federal defamation suit, filed in New York on Wednesday, criticizes Universal Music Group for releasing and broadcasting Lamar’s Not Like Us song.
In the suit, Drake said Universal Music Group “knew full well” the lyrics, images, and music video by the Compton rapper referred to him as a pedophile, according to TMZ.
Drake claimed Universal Music Group went to great lengths to turn Lamar’s diss track into a “chart-topping” anthem.
The Canadian rapper, born Aubrey Drake Graham, also said the record label played a role in ensuring Lamar headlined the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, the lawsuit read.
Drake claimed the reason behind the big game slot is for Lamar to perform the diss track on the massive stage, which he calls “one of the most significant (and viewed) cultural events of the year.”
“This lawsuit is not about the artist who created ‘Not Like Us,'” the suit read.
“It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the music company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize” the song.
The lawsuit added that the campaign was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”
The complaint noted that the cover art for Not Like Us features a photo of Drake’s home in Toronto dotted with markers meant to represent the presence of registered sex offenders.
Drake also raised concerns how that just days after the song was released, a shooting unfolded at his home in May, where one of his security guards was injured.
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