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Drake Drops Legal Petition Against iHeartMedia
The rapper still plans to move forward with his case against Universal Music Group over 2024 Kendrick Lamar single “Not Like Us.”
In a filing from last November, the five-time Grammy winner accused iHeartMedia, the parent company of iHeartRadio, of accepting payola from Universal Music Group to play “Not Like Us” on national radio stations and “inflate artificially the metrics.” Drake’s petition claimed that UMG should have prevented the release of “Not Like Us,” due to defamatory statements about him engaging in pedophilia, harboring sex offenders and other criminal accusations. As of February 26, the rapper’s legal team notified the Bexar County, Texas court that iHeartRadio has been removed as a respondent. Amid the “Not Like Us” controversy, the song won a whopping five categories at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, and was performed during Kendrick’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show.
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