• Godort@lemm.ee
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    You ever lose a rap beef so bad that you try to sue the record company for releasing the diss track?

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    Drake acting like that kid in school that gets hurt one time in dodgeball and cries so hard he gets dodgeball banned for everyone district wide. If diss tracks become legally defined as defamation rap is dead forever.

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    I don’t listen to hiphop, and this is the first I’m hearing about this.

    UMG approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him

    This sounds pretty bad. And if UMG marketed it as much as the lawsuit claims, maybe he actually has a case.

    And this actually resulted in a shooting and break-ins.

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      Dude is a pedo though…

      Drake was arrested on November 24, 2019, and was later indicted on charges of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) and Attempted Use of Interstate Facilities to Transmit Information About a Minor in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2425.

      On April 8, 2021, after a four-day trial, a jury found Drake guilty on both counts.

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      UMG didn’t market it, Drake himself did by voluntarily participating in the beef, even acknowledging early on it would probably be used against him (because there’s no shortage of creepiness). Drake has been throwing shots at basically everyone for a decade, this didn’t just pop up. So many people were ready for his downfall, that made it 100x more popular than UMG did.

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        All of that is true, but I’m pretty sure that UMG did market it nevertheless. That happened after the release, not before it - but when the UMG executives realized what cultural phenomenon this song was, they definitely wouldnt let it just fizzle out organically.

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      He accused the other guy of beating his wife during the beef too. Lawsuit doesn’t mention that.

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      You’re right, fuck major labels for sure and this is more evidence supporting that, but fuck drake too that dude is a creep and he can fuck off

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    I mean, yeah. It calls him a pedophile.

    Problem one, you’re still a huge loser for running off crying about a fight you started.

    Problem two, it might not be wrong.

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    Good. Hope the dude wins. Rap beefs are bullshit, tired, and juvenille. The same sort of morons who “love” rap beefs that think professional wrestling, and reality tv are legitimate entertainment. Their brains aren’t fully formed. When you intimate that someone is a pedophile, in the public square, like Elon Musk did when that diver in Thailand showed him to be the buffoon that he is, they should be sued. Hope it works out for Drake better than it did for diver dude.

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      1; Have you even heard Kendrick’s tracks in this beef? Shit is dope as fuck.

      2; As pointed out in another comment: Drake has been found guilty for coercion and enticement of a minor. These accusations aren’t ungrounded insinuations, they’re fact.