Earlier this year Drake filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Universal Music Group for distributing the Kendrick Lamar Drake diss track, "Not Like Us [click here if you missed that]."
Drake amends the lawsuit to include executives from Roc Nation...
From AllHipHop
Drake filed a lawsuit targeting top Universal Music Group executives and marketing leaders at Interscope Records on claims they secretly pushed Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” and orchestrated its performance at the 2025 Super Bowl to damage his reputation.
The rap heavyweight, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, named more than 20 individuals in newly amended court filings, accusing them of defamation, harassment and deceptive business practices. The complaint alleges the defendants used “covert tactics” to amplify the viral diss track, which Drake claims was designed to harm his public image and career.
Among those listed are Ramon Alvarez Smikle, executive vice president and head of digital marketing at Interscope; Kojo Menne Asamoah; Jordan Bell, urban influencer and content marketing at Interscope; Steve Berman, president of marketing at Interscope; Anthony Bucher, also known as Tony the Hitmaker, and his company Hitmaker Services Inc.; Tiffany Bullock, senior manager of influencer and content marketing at Interscope; and Jesse Collins of Roc Nation.
Drake also called out Vincenza Conticchio, video and creative content commissioner at Interscope, for allegedly facilitating the licensing and live performance of “Not Like Us” during the Super Bowl halftime show.
The lawsuit further identifies key executives who allegedly had knowledge of the campaign, including Bill Evans, EVP of urban promotion at Interscope; David Isaac Friley; Jody Gerson, CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group; Sir Lucian Grainge, CEO of UMG; John Janick, CEO of Interscope; David Kaefer, VP and head of music and audiobooks at Spotify USA; Andrew Kronfeld, EVP of marketing at UMG; Annie Lee, COO of Interscope; Avery Lipman, president of Republic Records; Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Records; Faatimah Mahadi, marketing coordinator at Interscope; Greg Marella, president of promotion and EVP at Capitol Music Group; and Nicole Wyskoarko, president and head of urban A&R at Interscope.
According to court documents filed Monday (August 18), Drake is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief along with monetary damages: “For his deceptive business practices claim, Plaintiff seeks statutory and actual damages in an amount to be determined at trial based on expert opinion and analysis, plus treble damages and attorneys’ fees and costs pursuant to Section 349 of the New York General Business Law, as well as prejudgment and post-judgment interest.”
20 comments:
So he admits the diss track damaged his career while his fans still saying he won the battle? how can fake streams damage a real career? Fake streams made him cancel all those concerts? gtfoh
aubrey down bad
Get 'em Drake
Sore loser
This man is a whole sucka and clearly he is not built for hip hop. Maybe he needs hop back in that wheelchair on TV.
I really liked Drake, I can’t even look at him the same. The irony is that no one would still be talking about the song but his additions to his bogus lawsuit keeps reminding us that he’s a sore losing, colonizer.
This is not the Black side showing. He's giving Karen for the win Alex. LOLO
HOW does he even have fans at this point???? This crybaby a whole @ss BISH 💯🚮
there's no lawsuits in hip hop. that's not how this works. that's not how any of this works.
There are snitches at Rock Nation.
How does he have this level of detail in his lawsuit?
Drake has a lot of insider information.
He is scorching the earth and burning bridges.
He may cause executives to lose their jobs.
Drake is confident that they gave him good information.
I'm confident that no one of importance will lose their job behind this.
Drake ready to retire he knew his time was coming he only had 1-2 years left in his career so now he trying to get some retirement money. We know he not trying to stay in the game if he naming and suing all these pll! Like even the ppl who are in charge of content creation 😂these the ppl that help with social media posts and campaigns.
RWS still under investigation.
This is hilarious. He's trying to force a settlement.
4:15 Drake knows so much because he used the same system to get all his weeks at no.1. and now he mad because they rigging the game for somebody else.
🗣️Give it up Deelish u look like a Man! 🙄Boy u lost get over it!
The end game about to be and that’s when cry baby drake loses real real big and things turn around and he I’ll lose millions
Drake doing just what they are letting him do and giving him enough rope to hang himself. Let the game begin and finish because I’m tired of this cry baby
This reminds me of MJ suing Sony, Prince fighting for his master's, Angie Stone suing for her royalties.... And they're all RIP. Drake wanna be found in a bathtub ig
All these comments are excellent.
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