Common Music Group is firing again at Drake with their response to the rapper’s enchantment to revive his defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss monitor, “Not Like Us.”
In line with a Digital Music Information report, printed on March 27, Common Music Group responded to Drake’s enchantment, arguing that reinstating Drizzy’s defamation lawsuit would “critically undermine” the artwork of hip-hop as a result of he is upset that he misplaced the rap battle towards Kendrick Lamar. Within the swimsuit, UMG recommended that Ok-Dot calling Drake a pedophile is a part of the artwork type that is “constructed on exaggeration, insult and wordplay.”
Drake’s unique lawsuit accused UMG — however not Kendrick — of defamation via the music big releasing the track, which known as him a “licensed pedophile,” that Drizzy claimed allowed hundreds of thousands of individuals to really consider that he was a pedophile. Nevertheless, a decide dismissed the swimsuit in October of 2025, ruling that the Compton rapper’s lyrics had been a “nonactionable opinion,” that means, they weren’t statements of reality.
In UMG’s newest submitting, the music conglomerate argued that Kendrick’s “pedophile” lyric was in response to Drake’s accusations that Ok-Dot allegedly beat his spouse and was not the organic father of one among his kids. Additionally they added that the OVO Sound chief’s defamation lawsuit does not maintain any weight in a broader authorized sense both.
“‘Not Like Us’ falls inside a style typified by inflammatory putdowns, epithets, fiery rhetoric, vulgarity and hyperbole,” UMG’s attorneys reportedly wrote within the paperwork. “Drake’s try to tear the phrases he now dislikes from their fast and broader context has no assist in governing legislation.”
The appeals courtroom is scheduled to listen to arguments on this case within the subsequent few months and a ruling is anticipated subsequent yr.
XXL has reached out to Common Music Group for remark.
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