Drake
By Stacy M. BrownBlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Drake took Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us—so personally that he took it to court. Now, he’s settled his dispute with iHeartMedia, but his fight with Universal Music Group (UMG) is just heating up. In November, Drake filed a legal petition in Texas, accusing iHeartMedia of accepting illegal payments […]
During a venomous back-and-forth barrage of diss tracks last year, the rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar accused one another of phoniness, hypocrisy and abuse. But while fans anointed Lamar’s chart-topping single “Not Like Us” the battle’s knockout blow, Drake saw the song’s punchlines invoking pedophilia as something far more insidious — and with real-world consequences. […]
Drake’s war of words with Kendrick Lamar, through a vicious back-and-forth of diss tracks, generated some of the biggest headlines in rap this year. And now it has landed in court. On Monday, lawyers for Drake filed legal papers in New York and Texas accusing the Universal Music Group — the giant record company behind […]
Topline Rapper Drake accused Universal Music Group of artificially inflating Spotify streams of Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping diss track “Not Like Us” in a court filing submitted in New York on Monday, the latest escalation in a
DeMar DeRozan appeared to side with fellow Compton native Kendrick Lamar over Drake in their feud. (Todd Korol/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Drake is attempting to start another beef with a Compton native. We’ll see if this one goes any better. The multi-platinum rapper made an appearance on a Toronto Raptors broadcast Saturday, which was […]
On the same day that former President Trump claimed before a national gathering of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black person,” his running mate Sen. JD Vance accused Harris of being a “phony” who […]
While hosting the 2024 ESPYs on Thursday, Serena Williams marked the occasion by sharing some sage advice. “If I’ve learned anything this year, it’s that none of us, not a single one of us, not even me, should ever pick a fight with
As the dust appears to have settled on Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef, a clear victor has emerged. On Tuesday morning, Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” a diss track rolled into a rollicking, booty-shaking West Coast anthem, debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 — the fourth No. 1 recording by the Compton rapper. Source . […]
Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images Less than 24 hours after unleashing his “Meet the Grahams” diss track, Kendrick Lamar strikes against Drake yet again with the scathing “Not Like Us.” On Saturday night (May 4), K. Dot dropped the Mustard-produced track on
Kendrick Lamar continued to ramp up his increasingly personal musical battle with Drake by releasing “Not Like Us,” his third song in 36 hours, early Saturday evening. The song is posted on Lamar’s official YouTube channel — which essentially guarantees its authenticity in an era when an AI deepfake must . . .
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