UMG Lawsuit

Music Drake & UMG Have Scheduled Mediation Coming Up For Defamation Appeal Drake had his defamation lawsuit against his parent label, UMG, dismissed in early October. The Toronto rapper filed an appeal weeks later. By Zachary Horvath November 17, 2025 2.5K Views
Original Content Drake's "Not Like Us" Lawsuit Was Doomed From The Start In our first HotNewHipHop Video Essay, we look at Drake's lawsuit against UMG, and why it was always doomed to fail. By Alexander Cole October 17, 2025 1.8K Views
Music TMZ's Harvey Levin Has Bad News For Drake As Lawyers Seek To Appeal UMG Verdict Drake recently had his defamation lawsuit against UMG thrown out, and to make matters worse, he is getting bad news from Harvey Levin. By Alexander Cole October 16, 2025 2.2K Views
Music Joe Budden Gets Revenge On Drake After UMG Lawsuit's Dismissal At this point, it's unclear whether Drake and Joe Budden's beef is just for laughs or if they really still hate each other. By Gabriel Bras Nevares October 10, 2025 3.3K Views
Music Drake’s Team Responds After Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group: “We Intend To Appeal” Drake’s spokesperson confirms the rapper plans to appeal after a judge dismissed his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” By Tallie Spencer October 09, 2025 4.4K Views
Music Drake's "Not Like Us" Lawsuit Against UMG Has Officially Been Dismissed Drake was suing UMG for defamation following Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track, and now, the lawsuit has been dismissed. By Alexander Cole October 09, 2025 3.8K Views
Music A$AP Rocky Reignites Drake Beef With Comments About UMG Lawsuit A$AP Rocky and Drake went at it a bit last year, and while the former fell back, it seems like the UMG lawsuit has reignited tensions. By Alexander Cole September 23, 2025 2.0K Views
Music Scru Face Jean Drops Another Drake Diss About UMG Lawsuit Scru Face Jean appeared in Drake's recent amendments to his UMG lawsuit, as he's accused of helping the supposed campaign against Drizzy. By Gabriel Bras Nevares August 22, 2025 2.8K Views
Original Content Different Gods: Kendrick Lamar & Drake’s Two Versions Of Hip Hop Power Drake & Kendrick shaped a generation of Hip Hop, each pushing the genre in radically different directions. By Erika Marie July 20, 2025 4.6K Views
Music UMG Motions To Dismiss Salt-N-Pepa's Lawsuit Over Masters Ownership Salt-N-Pepa first brought this lawsuit against Universal Music Group in May, seeking control of their master recordings. By Devin Morton July 18, 2025 1053 Views
Music Drake Submits Massive Witness List For His UMG Lawsuit Featuring Several High-Profile Names Drake is taking legal action against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar's diss track, "Not Like Us." By Cole Blake July 15, 2025 7.3K Views
Music UMG Hits Drake With An Ominous Warning After His Lawsuit Amendment Over Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Performance Drake updated his lawsuit against Universal Music Group with new arguments and the company isn't happy about it. By Cole Blake April 17, 2025 3.5K Views
Music Drake Updates UMG Lawsuit Claiming Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Was An Attempt To “Assassinate” His Character Drake's new amendment also makes note of the Grammys, where "Not Like Us" helped Kendrick Lamar win several awards. By Cole Blake April 17, 2025 2.3K Views
Music Drake Allowed To Seek Access To Kendrick Lamar's Record Deal In UMG Lawsuit Drake has been suing Universal Music Group for defamation and the case centers around Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." By Cole Blake April 02, 2025 5.2K Views
Music UMG Demands To End Discovery In Drake Lawsuit Over His Efforts To See "Confidential" Documents Per sources, Drake's attorney has also responded with some fiery and pointed words for his client's parent label. By Zachary Horvath March 19, 2025 963 Views
Music Charlamagne Tha God Clowns Drake As UMG Files Motion To Dismiss His Lawsuit Charlamagne Tha God noted that many of the same reasons UMG laid out, he previously mentioned on "The Breakfast Club." By Cole Blake March 18, 2025 1.7K Views
Music Drake Goes Full Drake And Rents Out Club To Blast Sabrina Carpenter Music Drake loves to gamble, and apparently the rapper loves to do so in the peace and quiet of an empty night club. By Elias Andrews March 05, 2025 7.3K Views
Music Drake Fans Say I Told You So After FCC Begins Payola Investigation Into iHeartCountry Festival The FCC is taking a look at iHeartMedia’s upcoming iHeartCountry Festival and the move has Drake fans taking note. By Cole Blake February 26, 2025 2.5K Views
Music Drake Receives Ominous Warnings From Fans After Posting Lucian Grainge's Daughter-In-Law On His Finsta Drake has been trolling on his "plotttttwistttttt" Instagram page. By Cole Blake February 12, 2025 23.8K Views
Music Drake's Lawsuit Against UMG Shines A Light On How YouTubers & Content Creators Set The Tone For Hip-Hop's Biggest Beef HotNewHipHop spoke with Scru Face Jean, Jeremy Hecht, The Company Man, and Anthony Fantano about the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef and how YouTubers somehow found themselves named in a lawsuit against the biggest record label on the planet. By Alexander Cole February 05, 2025 12.4K Views

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