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Drake’s Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Is ‘Dangerous,’ Legal Scholars Warn
Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” lyrics is “dangerous,” a group of legal scholars warn.
Filed in January, Drake’s case claims that UMG defamed him by releasing Lamar’s scathing diss track, which tarred the Canadian rapper as a “certified pedophile.” He says that millions of people took that lyric literally, severely harming his reputation. “Drake’s complaint rests on the assumption that every word of ‘Not Like Us’ should be taken literally, as a factual representation,” professors Charis E. Kubrin, Jack Lerner, Adam Dunbar and Kyle Winnen write in the court filing. Diss track lyrics are a creative artform that are understood by listeners not as “factual arguments or a series of news reports,” the professors write, but as “hyperbole, bluster, and demonstrations of disrespect” that are “designed to entertain and impress their audience.”
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