That Drake Recordsdata Official Defamation Lawsuit In opposition to Common Music Group (UMG), accusing the corporate of spreading the false narrative that he’s a pedophile by way of Kendrick Lamar’s now legendary diss observe, “not like us” has upset many within the Hip-Hop group.
However a gaggle of individuals named deep within the criticism are significantly upset. On pages 52 and 53 of the lengthy swimsuitThe Toronto rapper’s attorneys named a number of content material creators and alleged that UMG allowed these personalities to monetize reactions to Lamar’s music with out imposing copyright claims.
Drake believes this helped unfold false claims that he’s a toddler predator and is an instance of how the corporate prioritizes cash over the fame of the 6 Gods.
The content material creators concerned within the lawsuit are among the hottest on-line. they embody Kai CenatNoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, Familia Cartier and Zias.
Their reactions to Lamar’s music bought thousands and thousands of views, the bottom bought 2 million (Cartier Household) and the very best bought 9 million (Kai Cenat).
Reactions from content material creators
Naturally, the named creators (and lots of who weren’t) are usually not proud of Drizzy and have criticized him on social media and different on-line platforms.
The loudest might have been No Life Shaq, who posted a 10-minute lengthy video on YouTube titled “DRAKE WOKE ME UP!”
Within the video, he says, “This black Drake ratted out the response group! black, we chilled, we had enjoyable and we bought placed on a case? This has bought to be the smoothest black ever, canine.”
RDC Gaming responded through the broadcast merely saying, “One factor I’ve discovered in my life is that this pal… The largest ‘L’s’ come from not realizing take an ‘L’. Some blacks simply take an L and transfer on.”
Zias in all probability had probably the most explosive response when he discovered he had been named within the lawsuit, even jokingly calling a lawyer to tell them that he was countersuing Drake.
Now, keep in mind that these are simply reactions from the folks named within the lawsuit. A number of different content material creators who reacted to “Not Like Us” (and Drake’s tracks) shared related sentiments and continued to criticize the Toronto rapper for his resolution to call content material creators in his lawsuit.
Social media response
Annoyed hip-hop followers on X identified that Drake solely named black streamers who reacted to “Not like us, and never white folks.”
One consumer wrote“WAIT LOL I simply realized Drake ratted out the black streamers who reacted to his video and never the white ones lol.”
One other consumer added“Drake named all of the black streamers on his case and now he is doing a giveaway with Adin Ross.”
This merely provides to the lengthy checklist of explanation why Drake shouldn’t have taken authorized motion and we’re seeing the results of his actions in actual time, beginning nearly a yr in the past when he begged Lamar to “drop, drop, drop, drop.”
This story initially appeared on The Root, our sister web site, on January 18.
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