Drake's label counterattacks on appeal in the “Not Like Us” case: the rapper's arguments qualified as “hypocritically astonishing”
Universal Music Group is countersuing Drake again, arguing in a new appeal brief that the rapper's attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” is illogical and “stunning hypocrisy”.
In this new 83-page document obtained by WECB, UMG claims that the Canadian rapper, whose real name is Aubrey Drake Graham, puts forward such shaky arguments and “absurd” that he tries to “overthrow the law”.
The court decision confirmed by UMG
This brief, filed in the Second Circuit, argues that District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas ruled correctly last October in finding that Lamar's words calling Drake a pedophile constituted a “non-pursuable opinion”that is to say, they did not fall within the factual assertion.
The label points out that Drake felt free to use UMG's platform to attack Lamar “in equally inflammatory terms” when it suited him, but now demands different treatment for “words that displease him” and who aim at him.
