Drake has finally addressed his ongoing legal dispute with Universal Music Group (UMG) regarding allegations surrounding Kendrick Lamar’s track, Not Like Us.
The Canadian rapper made headlines when he filed pre-litigation submissions against UMG and Spotify. In the filings, Drake claimed the two entities collaborated to artificially amplify the success of Not Like Us, a diss track widely believed to be directed at him. Many fans viewed the song as Kendrick’s definitive response in their long-rumored feud.
While the “One Dance” singer has been relatively quiet on the matter, aside from hinting at it in a freestyle, things escalated recently when a DM exchange between the rapper and Chris Blake surfaced online before being swiftly deleted. In the exchange, Drake offered insight into his motives and frustrations.
Addressing his decision to take legal action, the 38-year-old wrote:
“I mean, I don’t know no details, fam. I’m just showing you outside perception. I think there’s better ways to go about it, is my opinion.
Me and Universal is like if Nike was funding a campaign about LeBron cheating on his wife… not Adidas or Reebok… Nike, the company he’s been with since he started. My situation is not no street sh*t.
Everybody before me that tried the label was too eccentric, so they wrote them off as crazy, and they never had to pay for their sins and mistakes. I’m going to change that and make the building a safer place for every artist moving forward.”
