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A Timeline of Drake’s Legal Actions Since Kendrick Lamar Dropped ‘Not Like Us’

Drake has taken a number of legal actions since Kendrick Lamar dropped "Not Like Us." Here's a timeline of every move he's made so far.

But what started as a slow-burning feud that largely simmered under the surface, relegated to stray jabs in songs here and there, eventually boiled over into an all-out war of words when Drizzy dropped “Push Ups” in May, followed by more tracks such as “Taylor Made Freestyle” and “Family Matters.” Dot countered each of them with searing snipes of his own on “Euphoria,” “6:16 in L.A.” and “Meet the Grahams,” but it was when he unleashed his Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Not Like Us” that Drake decided things had gone too far. Drake first involved lawyers in what was otherwise a purely music-based conflict just before Thanksgiving 2024, when he submitted a bombshell pre-action filing to New York court accusing UMG — to which he’s been signed for the entirety of his career — of inorganically boosting the streams on “Not Like Us” through bots, payola and other methods designed to “deceive consumers into believing the song was more popular than it was in reality.” Nearly a month after Drake first brought Spotify into the mix by naming the company in his first legal action against UMG, the streaming service hit back with a response motion filed to Manhattan court calling the musician’s claims “false,” “far-fetched” and “speculative.”

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