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Don’t Expect a Drake Trial


“It just seems like he’s pissed off and venting it through the legal system.”

The lawsuit cites lyrics like “Rabbit hole is still deep, I can go further, I promise” as implying “the existence of evidence to support the allegations against Drake.” But Lovell says, in the context of a rap beef, fans aren’t expecting the truth. “It is, instead, entirely about UMG, the company that decided to publish, promote, exploit, and monetize allegations that it understood were not only false, but dangerous.” The lawyers agreed it seemed calculated for Drake to leave Lamar out of the lawsuit. Drake’s lawsuit attributes the allegation of 30 million bot streams to “one individual whose identity is unknown to Plaintiff” who made the claim “on a popular podcast.” “That’s going to get vetted very quickly,” Lovell adds.

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