Hip hop superstar Duck Now he complains about the rival rapper Kendrick Lamar’s “I don’t like us” in this year’s Super Bowl, adding it to your Demand demand against Universal Music Group on the disc and his accusations of pedophilia against Drake.
“The recording was made during the Super Bowl 2025 and was transmitted to the largest audience for a mid -time program of the Super Bowl, more than 133 million people, including millions of children, and millions more than ever before they had heard the song or none of the songs that preceded it,” says the modified demand presented Wednesday in Manhattan.
He adds: “It was the first, and hopefully it will be the last part -time show of the orchestrated Super Bowl to kill the character of another artist.”
Although Lamar eliminated the word “pedophile” on the track during The part -time showThe fact that it was omitted showed that “almost everyone understands that it is defamatory,” says the demand. He also alleges that Universal Music used financial benefits and commercial relations exploited to ensure the main place for Lamar in the Super Bowl, and promoted the performance.
“Drake’s amended complaint makes a case already stronger,” said his lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, in a statement. “Drake will expose the evidence of UMG’s misconduct, and UMG will be responsible for the consequences of his poorly conceived decisions.”
This year’s Super Bowl and his part -time show were The most watchedAccording to Nielsen.
In a statement that responded to the presentation of the Court, Universal Music, the matrix record label of both artists, continued to deny Drake’s accusations.
“Drake, without a doubt, one of the most successful artists in the world and with whom we have enjoyed a successful 16 -year -old relationship, their legal representatives are being deceived to take an absurd legal step after another,” said the company. “It is shameful that these silly and frivolous legal theatrical continue.”
The amended demand also adds that defamatory portions of “not like us” were played in the Grammy Awards In February, when the single won five awards, including the song and the album of the year. The demand states that Universal Music also helped ensure the Grammy nominations and allowed the song to play at the ceremony.
Drake sued universal music, but not Lamar, for damages not revealed in January, saying that the company published and promoted “not like us” despite its false accusations of pedophilia and suggestions that listeners should resort to vigilant justice.
The result, says the demand, were intruders Shoot a security guard In Drake’s house in Toronto and two attempts to rob there, hate and harassment online, a blow to his reputation and a decrease in the value of his brand before his renegotiation of the contract with UMG this year. The modified demand also adds more online comments that indicate that people believe that the accusations of pedophilia.
Drake, a Canadian rapper and 38 -year -old Canadian singer and five -time Grammy winner, and Lamar, a 37 -year -old man Winner of the Pulitzer Prize With 22 Victorias del Grammy, they have been reinforcing for years. The dispute is among the largest in Hip Hop in recent years.
The two were occasional collaborators more than a decade ago, but Lamar began to take public blows in Drake from 2013. The fight intensified abruptly last year, since both launched clues from the other, including “No Like Us” from Lamar.
“Let’s say, Drake, I listen to you that you like young people / it’s better that you ever go to the block of cell one,” says Lamar.
In his motion to dismiss the demand, Universal Music says that Drake helped feed the flesh with his own inflammatory clues directed to Lamar.
“The plaintiff, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, lost a rap battle that caused and in which he participated voluntarily,” says the motion. “Instead of accepting the loss as the rap artist without problems that he often says, he has sued his own record label in a wrong attempt to save his wounds.”
