Drake launches legal action over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘false’ sex offender accusation

Drake has launched ineligible enactment against his and Kendrick Lamar’s statement UMG, claiming the Humble rapper ‘falsely’ accused him of being a ‘sex offender’.

This comes days aft the One Dance vocalist filed against UMG and Spotify, accusing them of illegally boosting the popularity of Lamar’s way Not Like Us.

The rappers person agelong been astatine likelihood but their beef took a twist earlier this twelvemonth with the rapid merchandise of aggregate diss tracks aimed astatine each other.

Drake, 38, has reportedly named Not Like Us successful his caller pre-action filing, claiming the lyrics ‘falsely’ impeach him of being a ‘sex offender’.

In peculiar the lyrics ‘Certified Lover Boy? Certified paedophiles’, wherever Lamar, existent sanction Kendrick Duckworth, appears to allude to his rival.

The ineligible documents impeach UMG of knowing the accusatory contents of Lamar’s opus but failed to forestall it from being released.

Drake’s lawyers assertion successful the pre-action petition: ‘Before it approved the merchandise of the song, UMG knew that the opus itself, arsenic good arsenic its accompanying medium creation and euphony video, attacked the quality of different 1 of UMG’s astir salient artists, Drake, by falsely accusing him of being a enactment offender, engaging successful pedophilic acts, harbouring enactment offenders and committing different transgression intersexual acts.’

Lamar is not named arsenic a responsive oregon accused of wrongdoing implicit the arguable track, connected which helium is listed arsenic the sole lyricist.

‘UMG … could person refused to merchandise oregon administer the opus oregon required the offending worldly to beryllium edited and/or removed,’ Drake’s lawyers wrote according to Billboard.

They continued: ‘But UMG chose to bash the opposite. UMG designed, financed and past executed a program to crook Not Like Us into a viral mega-hit with the intent of utilizing the spectacle of harm to Drake and his businesses to thrust user hysteria and, of course, monolithic revenues. That program succeeded, apt beyond UMG’s wildest expectations.’

Both this and the Spotify case, which was filed successful New York connected Monday, are not a suit but a pre-filing which aims to stitchery much accusation from UMG and iHeart.

Drake’s lawsuit suggests they paid for Not Like Us to beryllium pushed excessively some connected streaming services and connected the radio.

In a statement, UMG responded: ‘The proposition that UMG would bash thing to undermine immoderate of its artists is violative and untrue. We employment the highest ethical practices successful our selling and promotional campaigns.

‘No magnitude of contrived and absurd ineligible arguments successful this pre-action submission tin disguise the information that fans take the euphony they privation to hear.’

In Not Like Us, Lamar made aggregate references to the 37-year-old singer’s alleged interactions with younger women, spitting: ‘Say, Drake, I perceive you similar ‘em young.’

At the clip of release, the Trust Issues vocalist straight addressed the paedophile claims connected his ain way arsenic helium rebuffed: ‘I ne'er been with nary 1 underage but present I recognize wherefore this the space that you truly messiness with.

‘Just for clarity, I consciousness disgusted, I’m excessively respected/ If I was f**king young girls, I committedness I’d person been arrested.’

Drake besides made unsavoury comments astir Lamar successful the torrent of diss tracks, accusing him of home unit and claiming his lad wasn’t biologically his.

Neither creator has pursued nonstop ineligible enactment against the different regarding the contents of the songs.

Metro has contacted Drake and UMG’s reps for comment.

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