This week Universal Music Group filed a motion to dismiss Drake's defamation of character lawsuit for distributing Kendrick Lamar's, 'Not Like Us," arguing Drake only filed because he lost a rap battle [click here if you missed that].
In his response Drake argues NLU goes beyond a regular rap battle because fans took Kendrick's words literally...
From NME
Drake‘s lawyers have claimed that “millions of people” believe Kendrick Lamar was literally calling him a PDF File.
Yesterday (March 20), Drake’s team hit back at UMG’s central argument: that most listeners wouldn’t take “outrageous insults”, which are naturally par for the course in diss tracks, as fact.
Per Billboard, the ‘Legend’ rapper’s lawyers say that line of argument is “doomed to fail” because people had taken Lamar’s words seriously.
“UMG completely ignores the complaint’s allegations that millions of people, all over the world, did understand the defamatory material as a factual assertion that plaintiff is a PDF File,” his attorneys wrote.
Drake’s lawyer’s continued: “UMG also ignores [the lawsuit’s claim] that the statements in question (and surrounding context) implied that the allegations were based on undisclosed evidence and the audience understood as much.”
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