Drake‘s authorized workforce has filed motions demanding that Common Music Group present any paperwork they’ve associated to allegations of home violence towards Kendrick Lamar. Moreover, they need entry to any paperwork involving Dave Free’s relationship with him and his kids. They filed the motions on Tuesday night.
Total, the movement requests 75 doc requests. For doc request No. 50, Drake’s attorneys write: “From January 1, 2014 to the current, all Paperwork and Communications regarding allegations of home violence, violence towards girls, and/or different types of violence dedicated by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth.” For No. 51, they add: “From January 1, 2019 to the current, all Paperwork and Communications regarding David Isaac Friley (a/lc/a Dave Free) and his relationship with Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth’s kids.”
Why Is Drake Suing UMG?
The requests pertain to the invention part of Drake’s defamation lawsuit towards UMG. He’s suing the corporate over its alleged promotion of Kendrick Lamar‘s diss observe, “Not Like Us.” He claims it used bots to artificially improve the recognition of the music, on which Lamar labels him a “licensed pedophile.”
UMG beforehand warned Drake towards getting into into discovery towards the corporate again in April. “Two weeks in the past, his representatives celebrated a ‘win’: the granting of a routine discovery movement,” they mentioned in an announcement on the time. “That ‘win’ will grow to be a loss if this frivolous and reckless lawsuit will not be dropped in its entirety as a result of Drake will personally be topic to discovery as nicely. Because the outdated saying goes, ‘watch out what you want for.’”
As caught by Billboard, one other part of the motions requests paperwork pertaining to Pusha T‘s 2018 diss observe, “The Story of Adidon.” His lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, says they wish to see whether or not UMG censored any lyrics from that music which can have been defamatory.
“Such paperwork would reveal why, and underneath what circumstances, UMG believes it’s acceptable to censor its artists’ expression, which plaintiff might consider alongside UMG’s selections concerning ‘Not Like Us,’” Gottlieb writes. “UMG’s previous apply, and data concerning prior defamatory materials it has refused to publish, can be extremely probative of UMG’s data right here.”
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