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The Internet Is Losing Their Minds After Drake Took Legal Action Over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us," And I Saved All The Best Tweets, Just For You


"Calling human resources in hip hop lol"

According to Variety, the petition claims UMG “engaged in conduct designed to artificially inflate the popularity of ‘Not Like Us’… including by licensing the song at drastically reduced rates to Spotify and using ‘bots’ to generate the false impression that the song was more popular than it was in reality.” No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear. Then, Drake filed a second action, accusing UMG of defamation for releasing a song “falsely accusing him of being a sex offender,” Billboard reports, seemingly in response to Kendrick's "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor" double entendre.

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