Common Music Group has filed a scathing movement to dismiss Drake‘s New York lawsuit in opposition to them for selling Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us,” stating that he’s solely suing as a result of he “misplaced a rap battle” and took authorized motion to “salve his wounds.”
The movement, filed earlier right now and reviewed by Selection, took a reducing method to creating the case for dismissal, claiming that Drake “misplaced a rap battle that he provoked and wherein he willingly participated. As a substitute of accepting the loss just like the unbothered rap artist he usually claims to be, he has sued his personal document label in a misguided try and salve his wounds. Plaintiff’s Grievance is totally with out benefit and needs to be dismissed with prejudice.”
The submitting notes that Drake himself signed a public petition lower than three years in the past criticizing “the pattern of prosecutors utilizing artists’ inventive expression in opposition to them” by decoding rap lyrics as truth. “Drake was proper then and is mistaken now,” reads the movement. “Grievance’s unjustified claims in opposition to UMG are not more than Drake’s try to save lots of face for his unsuccessful rap battle with Lamar.”
In its movement to dismiss, Common is arguing that Drake fails to make a declare for defamation in his go well with, stating that it’s a double customary to anticipate them to advertise his diss tracks in opposition to Lamar and never vice versa. The movement provides that “Not Like Us” “conveys nonactionable opinion and rhetorical hyperbole, not truth,” which means they’ll’t be accused of performing with malice, and additional claims that there’s no foundation for the go well with since Drake did not state a declare for “harassment within the second diploma” and beneath New York Basic Enterprise Legislation.
Selection has reached out to Drake’s crew for extra remark.
Drake initially filed his New York lawsuit in January, claiming that Common “authorised, revealed, and launched a marketing campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap observe” that was “meant to convey the particular, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a prison pedophile, and to counsel that the general public ought to resort to vigilante justice in response.” “Not Like Us” arrived final Might and have become the most important hit to emerge from the Lamar-Drake beef, which Drake says is as a result of Common artificially inflated the observe.
That very same month, Common filed a movement to dismiss Drake’s separate petition for pre-suit deposition in Texas, citing lack of proof within the rapper’s claims in opposition to the document firm that it artificially inflated and promoted “Not Like Us.”
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