The new defamation suit accuses UMG of defamation and harassment, calling the release and promotion of Lamar’s hit track, with lyrics labeling Drake a “certified pedophile”, an example of valuing “corporate greed over the safety and wellbeing of its artists”.
The suit alleges that UMG “approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response”.