That Drake filed an official defamation lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group (UMG), accusing the corporate of spreading the false narrative that he’s a pedophile by way of Kendrick Lamar’s now-legendary diss observe, “Not Like Us” has aggravated many within the Hip-Hop neighborhood.
However a bunch of people who occur to be named deep within the grievance are significantly aggravated. On pages 52 and 53 of the prolonged swimsuit, the Toronto rapper’s attorneys identify a number of content material creators and alleged that UMG allowed these personalities to monetize reactions to Lamar’s diss observe with out imposing copyright claims.
Drake believes that this helped unfold the false claims that he’s a toddler predator and is an instance of the corporate prioritizing cash over the 6-God’s fame.
The content material creators implicated within the swimsuit are among the hottest on-line. They embrace Kai Cenat, NoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, Cartier Household, and Zias.
Their reactions to Lamar’s diss observe garnered thousands and thousands of views, with the bottom gaining 2 million (Cartier Household) and the very best gaining 9 million (Kai Cenat).
Reactions from content material creators
Naturally, the creators named (and plenty of who weren’t) are sad with Drizzy and have criticized him on social media and different on-line platforms.
The loudest might have been No Life Shaq, who posted a 10-minute lengthy YouTube video titled, “DRAKE SNITCHED ON ME!”
Within the video, he says, “This n***a Drake performed snitched on the response neighborhood! N***a we chillin’, having enjoyable, and you bought us listed in a case? This gotta be the softest n***a ever, canine.”
RDC Gaming responded whereas on stream by merely saying, “One factor I discovered in my life is that this dawg… The largest ‘Ls’ come from not realizing methods to take an ‘L.’ Some n****s simply bought a take an L and transfer on.”
Zias seemingly had probably the most explosive response when he discovered that he was named within the lawsuit, and even jokingly known as a lawyer on stream to allow them to know that he was counter-suing Drake.
Now, bear in mind these are simply reactions from folks named within the swimsuit. A number of different content material creators who reacted to “Not Like Us” (and Drake’s diss tracks) shared related sentiments and continued criticizing the Toronto rapper for his resolution to call content material creators in his swimsuit.
Response from social media
Pissed off hip-hop followers on X identified that Drake solely named Black streamers who reacted to “Not Like Us, and never the white ones.
One consumer wrote, “HOLD UP LOL I simply realized Drake snitched on the Black streamers that reacted to his video and never the white ones lol.”
One other consumer added, “Drake named all of the Black streamers in his case and now he’s doing sweepstakes with Adin Ross.”
This simply provides to the lengthy checklist of the explanation why Drake shouldn’t have taken authorized motion and we’re seeing in real-time the implications of his actions, going again to just about a yr in the past when he begged Lamar to “drop, drop, drop, drop.”
This story initially appeared on The Root, our sister website, on January 18.
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