Drake Fans… Come Defend The Lawsuit…

[ROFL_GUY]

India/7/12 in shambles

 

[MJ Truth]

"Take your daughter to R Kelly have my way with her face", is definitely a criminal allegation lol

Didn't DJ Envy get Star arrested for saying something similar?

That’s a criminal act, not a criminal allegation.

 

[DPresidential]

There's nothing to defend.
Two grown men consensually engaged in a public mud slinging contest and one got his feelings hurt so bad he wants a judge to make it all go away. There's no deep dive to get into here. This is a simple case of a sensitive rapper getting tucked back into his pajama clothes.

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[Higher Tech]

That’s true. But from what I know, UMG has worked with Drake for a long time. Even if UMG starts working with Kendrick later, I think that’s where the problem is.

For example, people sometimes ask if Kendrick could sue because of the defamatory things said about him and his family in FM. I think he could, if UMG spent money to help promote or boost FM. In this case, they did it with NLU instead. In the end, UMG makes money from the fight between the artists, no matter who wins, but they might lose a really good partnership with Drake (the artist and business), who helped them earn lots and lots of money.

It appears to me that a lot of this can be summed up as conflict of interest. NLU was blowing up so UMG had every right to promote it from that aspect but they helped promote a song that was defamatory to one of the biggest clients they work with. If that client were to sue, they might the grounds to.

I would imagine they spent money to promote all of the songs. Then they put more money behind the song that caught on the best.

Disclaimer: I have not read anything about the lawsuit, except the titles of these threads

 

[VegetasHairline]

There's nothing to defend.
Two grown men consensually engaged in a public mud slinging contest and one got his feelings hurt so bad he wants a judge to make it all go away. There's no deep dive to get into here. This is a simple case of a sensitive rapper getting tucked back into his pajama clothes.

 

[Robbie3000]

Drake fans have no shame. If they did, they wouldn’t be fans in the first place.

I imagine every male Drake fan looks like Akademics, Mal and Rory.

 

[Kooze4524]

I understand what you mean, but I don’t think the usual hip hop rules really apply here. Business works differently. If UMG has a contract with Drake (the brand/business) and they helped promote NLU’s song that spoke badly (spread rumors) about him — and it can be shown that it hurt Drake (the brand/business) — then he might have a legal case. I propose looking at it from this potential lens: if your employer helped spread harmful rumors about you in your industry, do you think most people would take your employer’s side?

I get what you’re saying about looking at Drake as a “brand/business,” but that’s kind of the point I’m making… hip hop as an industry doesn’t operate like a traditional corporate environment. Even if UMG has contractual obligations to Drake, the reality is they’re also in the business of selling music, and controversy sells. There’s no version of this game where a label or platform is going to stay neutral if pushing a certain record makes money, even if it’s against one of their artists.

And Drake knows that. He’s benefitted from that same system for years… labels and media pushing his disses, amplifying his beefs, making sure they reached as many ears as possible. So if he’s suing now because UMG supposedly promoted something harmful, it’s like trying to opt out of the very machine he’s helped fuel.

Plus, let’s not forget… Kendrick also has a distribution deal with UMG. They’re not just Drake’s label, they’re Kendrick’s business partner too. So from their perspective, there’s no incentive to take sides when they can profit from both artists trading shots.

That’s why the office analogy doesn’t quite work because in hip hop, your coworkers are also your competition, and the employer isn’t your protector, it’s a promoter. They profit from all sides of the conflict, and everyone including Drake goes in knowing that.

 

[cap10slapahoe]

Drake fans have no shame. If they did, they wouldn’t be fans in the first place.

I imagine every male Drake fan looks like Akademics, Mal and Rory.

 

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[shopthatwrecks]

This doesn’t mean the judge will dismiss but UMG claims complete ignorance of any part of the song before hand but it doesn’t mean some sub-section of interscope or other parts of UMG didn’t know. Lucian himself denying it may not mean much.

UMG and Lucian themselves deny everything:

Lucian’s actual statement:

UMG’s denial of showing the contact:

This what happens when foreign kids come to meet/live with their American dad in America for the summer

Tried to tell boys

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/drake-initiates-legal-action-against-umg-files-defamation-suit-against-umg-over-being-a-pedophile-universal-responds.1059561/post-54352777

Got older came back on some what did I miss shyt

Reinvent ya self

 

[iamduval]

I think I’m a Drake fan. I don’t know what the end game is. Settlement, I assume?

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

haven’t been following it at all…but if I’m personally in a position that a corporation was promoting around the world that I’m “a certified pedophile” and I have the means to sue, I’m sueing and all other kinda shyt too ….fukk these imaginary hip hop rules

Imagine Eazy suing over being called a fakkit and his momma being a dyke

You nikkas defending this shyt are very

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Imagine Eazy suing over being called a fakkit and his momma being a dyke

You nikkas defending this shyt are very

Eazy E sues Sony Music, others

Eric (Eazy E) Wright, one of the founders of the rap group N.W.A and the head of Ruthless Records, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that charges various incidents of racketeering, extortion and money laundering in connection with a contractual dispute between Ruthless and Sony Music.

variety.com

Named as defendants in the suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, were Sony Music Entertainment; Death Row Records (owned by Andre Young, aka “Dr. Dre” of N.W.A, dikk Griffey, and Marion “Suge” Knight)

he sued Dre before Dre Day came out and didn’t have to after it dropped because he was already entitled to 20% of every thing generated for 6 years ….the work was already done…I can’t say for sure but I’d bet Aubrey would drop his suit for a fifth of UMG’s Kenny related earnings for 6 years

 

[King_Sage]

I think I’m a Drake fan. I don’t know what the end game is. Settlement, I assume?

renegotiate with UMG.

the contract reup was too low, so he wants to prove in court Kendrick was a pawn to decrease his brand value

Bro was hitting the stomp on Kendrick button to boost his value and it went the other way now he suing to undo the damage he helped to build

cant make this stuff up

What's crazy is, if Drake doesn't get the deal UMG has to invest the money elsewhere, and Kendrick could be an indirect benefactor

 

[L $ C]

everyone lost post battle cept kendrick

kendrick beat and hurt drake

drake beat and hurt rocky ross and metro

and everyone beat and hurt this message board into oblivion of only talking about 2 people 24.7 we all lost