Drake Sued Over What Did I Miss Visuals

Back in July Canadian rapper Drake dropped a single called 'What Did I Miss," containing a visual of himself surrounded by guns [click here if you missed that]. 

 In a new lawsuit Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti, accuses Drake of copying his art...

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Acclaimed Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti filed a lawsuit against Drake in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday. He accuses the rapper of “willful, brazen and extensive unlawful infringement.”

According to the lawsuit reported by Digital Music News, Galimberti argues that a prominent sequence in Drake’s What Did I Miss? music video is taken directly from a photograph in his 2020 book The Ameriguns which captured proud gun owners and the American tradition to bear arms.

Both Galimberti’s image and the scene in Drake’s music video depict men standing outside houses with firearms arranged in parallel lines around swimming pools. Galimberti points to shots starting around the 14-second mark of the video, which he says reproduce the precise layout of weapons in his photograph. He claims the video replicates his The Ameriguns portrait “down to the very last detail,” including its symbolic elements.

Galimberti states that he first learned of the similarity when people began tagging him online with clips from the rapper’s music video. His legal team then compiled a side-by-side comparison of one of his The Ameriguns images and Drake’s scene with guns displayed beside a pool. The photographer also alleges that Drake intentionally released What Did I Miss? near July 4 to reinforce the themes associated with the work.