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UMG Hits Back at Drake’s ‘Astonishing’ Claims in Updated Suit Over Kendrick’s Super Bowl Show
UMG wants a federal judge to dismiss Drake’s updated defamation lawsuit that complained about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
Universal Music Group wants a federal judge to dismiss Drake ’s updated defamation lawsuit that complained about Kendrick Lamar ’s Super Bowl halftime performance of “Not Like Us,” arguing he’s just upset about a “rap artist who defeated him.” The lawsuit, which doesn’t name Lamar himself as a defendant, alleges that UMG “waged a campaign” against its own artist to spread a “malicious narrative” about pedophilia that it knew to be false. In his amended complaint last month, Drake’s attorneys argued that the decision to censor the word “pedophile” during the broadcast failed to avoid the song’s defamatory meaning – and instead had underscored the rapper’s legal case against UMG.
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