UMG Lawsuit
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Original Content Drake & Kendrick shaped a generation of Hip Hop, each pushing the genre in radically different directions.
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Erika Marie -
Original Content In our first HotNewHipHop Video Essay, we look at Drake's lawsuit against UMG, and why it was always doomed to fail.
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Alexander Cole -
Music The internet is against Drake, but No Jumper isn't.
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Alexander Cole -
Music 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.
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Alexander Cole -
Music Drake has been trolling on his "plotttttwistttttt" Instagram page.
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Cole Blake -
Music UMG accused Believe and TuneCore of copyright infringement by distributing fake remixed songs from Kendrick Lamar, Justin Bieber, and others.
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Gabriel Bras Nevares -
Music Drake was suing UMG for defamation following Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track, and now, the lawsuit has been dismissed.
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Alexander Cole -
Music Drake loves to gamble, and apparently the rapper loves to do so in the peace and quiet of an empty night club.
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Elias Andrews -
Music Akademiks felt Drizzy was backing himself into a corner.
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Zachary Horvath -
Music Wack 100 has an explanation for Drake's recent lawsuit.
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Cole Blake -
Music Pusha T says Kendrick Lamar won the battle with Drake.
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Cole Blake -
Music Lord Jamar says Drake is a "sore loser."
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Cole Blake -
Music 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.
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Gabriel Bras Nevares -
Music Charlamagne Tha God noted that many of the same reasons UMG laid out, he previously mentioned on "The Breakfast Club."
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Cole Blake -
Songs The rapper was one of many namedropped in the federal defamation lawsuit and he's the second to clap back.
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Zachary Horvath -
Music It wasn't just the bots that were aiding the diss track's reach.
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Zachary Horvath -
Music 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.
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Alexander Cole -
Music Drake is now accusing UMG of even more wrongdoing.
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Cole Blake -
Music Rob Markman has provided some alleged insight into the beef.
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Cole Blake -
Music Drake is taking legal action against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar's diss track, "Not Like Us."
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Cole Blake -
Music Joe Budden went off during the latest episode of his podcast.
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Cole Blake