Drake Finally Serves Kojo Menne Asamoah Amid UMG Legal Battle

Drake is at the moment suing Common Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us.” Final month, it was reported that he had set his sights on Kojo Menne Asamoah. The Toronto artist alleges that Asamoah performed a serious function in artificially inflating the success of the hit diss monitor. Extra particularly, he suspects that he allegedly coordinated secret funds on behalf of UMG govt Ramon Alvarez-Smikle.

In accordance with XXL, his workforce served Asamoah by mail at 5 totally different addresses on August 7. Per the outlet, Asamoah should “produce paperwork, data, or objects or to allow inspection of premises” in relation to the alleged botting techniques as a part of the subpoena.

“Plaintiff alleges that Mr. Asamoah ‘possesses data regarding UMG’s use of covert techniques to advertise the Defamatory Materials, together with as a result of Plaintiff believes that Mr. Asamoah was concerned in directing funds and/or monetary incentives from UMG to 3rd events concerned in on-line botting for the aim of artificially inflating the streaming numbers of the Recording,'” the submitting reads.

Asamoah is certainly one of many people who Drake’s workforce needs to testify within the case. The rapper submitted a prolonged listing of potential witnesses final month, which options a number of high-profile names. This consists of UMG CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, former High Dawg Leisure president Dave Free, Kendrick’s supervisor Anthony Saleh, Interscope CEO John Janickl, and plenty of extra.

UMG’s witness listing, however, is barely 9 names lengthy. It additionally options each Kendrick and Drake. “Lamar is prone to have discoverable data in regards to the creation of the recording, picture, and video, and the distribution and promotion of the recording and video,” the corporate alleges in courtroom paperwork.