That Drake filed an official defamation lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group (UMG), accusing the corporate of spreading the false narrative that he’s a pedophile by way of Kendrick Lamar’s now-legendary diss monitor, “Not Like Us” has aggravated many within the Hip-Hop group.
However a bunch of people who occur to be named deep within the grievance are notably aggravated. On pages 52 and 53 of the prolonged swimsuit, the Toronto rapper’s attorneys identify a number of content material creators and alleged that UMG allowed these personalities to monetize reactions to Lamar’s diss monitor with out implementing copyright claims.
Drake believes that this helped unfold the false claims that he’s a toddler predator and is an instance of the corporate prioritizing cash over the 6-God’s repute.
The content material creators implicated within the swimsuit are a number of the hottest on-line. They embody Kai Cenat, NoLifeShaq, RDC Gaming, Cartier Household, and Zias.
Their reactions to Lamar’s diss monitor garnered hundreds of thousands of views, with the bottom gaining 2 million (Cartier Household) and the very best gaining 9 million (Kai Cenat).
Reactions from content material creators
Naturally, the creators named (and lots of who weren’t) are sad with Drizzy and have criticized him on social media and different on-line platforms.
The loudest might have been No Life Shaq, who posted a 10-minute lengthy YouTube video titled, “DRAKE SNITCHED ON ME!”
Within the video, he says, “This n***a Drake executed snitched on the response group! N***a we chillin’, having enjoyable, and you bought us listed in a case? This gotta be the softest n***a ever, canine.”
RDC Gaming responded whereas on stream by merely saying, “One factor I realized in my life is that this dawg… The most important ‘Ls’ come from not realizing the way to take an ‘L.’ Some n****s simply obtained a take an L and transfer on.”
Zias possible had probably the most explosive response when he realized that he was named within the lawsuit, and even jokingly known as a lawyer on stream to allow them to know that he was counter-suing Drake.
Now, bear in mind these are simply reactions from individuals named within the swimsuit. A number of different content material creators who reacted to “Not Like Us” (and Drake’s diss tracks) shared related sentiments and continued criticizing the Toronto rapper for his determination to call content material creators in his swimsuit.
Response from social media
Pissed off hip-hop followers on X identified that Drake solely named Black streamers who reacted to “Not Like Us, and never the white ones.
One consumer wrote, “HOLD UP LOL I simply realized Drake snitched on the Black streamers that reacted to his video and never the white ones lol.”
One other consumer added, “Drake named all of the Black streamers in his case and now he’s doing sweepstakes with Adin Ross.”
This simply provides to the lengthy listing of explanation why Drake shouldn’t have taken authorized motion and we’re seeing in real-time the implications of his actions, going again to just about a yr in the past when he begged Lamar to “drop, drop, drop, drop.”
This story initially appeared on The Root, our sister website, on January 18.
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