Drake Compares UMG Dispute To Nike Funding LeBron James Dishonest Rumors

In November of final yr, Drake determined to take authorized motion towards Common Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar’s hit diss monitor, “Not Like Us.” In a pre-action petition filed in Texas, he accused the label and Spotify of artificially boosting the track, alleged that UMG might have prevented its launch and extra. This shortly earned blended reactions from followers and friends. Whereas many rushed to clown Drake, and accuse him of being jealous of Kendrick’s success, others consider there’s an opportunity he might change the trade for good.

This seems to be his purpose, primarily based on a sequence of latest DMs shared by Chris Blake Griffith on Instagram in the present day. Within the since-deleted screenshot, Drake claims that he is making an attempt to make issues higher for different artists sooner or later. “Me and Common is like if Nike was funding a marketing campaign about Lebron dishonest on his spouse,” he wrote partly. “Not Adidas or Reebok… Nike the corporate he been with since he began. My scenario isn’t no road sh*t.”

“All people earlier than me that attempted the label was too eccentric in order that they wrote them off as loopy and so they by no means needed to pay for his or her sins and errors,” he continued. “I’ll change that and make the constructing a safer place for each artist transferring ahead.” This is not the one replace involving Drake that has social media customers cut up, nonetheless. Not too long ago, the Toronto hitmaker’s father Dennis Graham additionally raised suspicions by deleting an outdated picture of his granddaughter from his Instagram web page.

Some Kendrick followers promptly theorized that this was as a result of the kid within the picture was the key daughter he accuses Drake of hiding in his track “Meet The Grahams.” Others level out that the kid might additionally simply be considered one of Drake’s half-siblings’ youngsters, together with the sister he seemingly raps about in his new “Combating Irish Freestyle.”