All rumors surrounding Kendrick Lamar performing Not Like Us at Super Bowl

A supply informed the outlet, “He will not again down. He would not care about what Drake says or what he thinks concerning the track; it is a hit. Kendrick will not be silenced or shut down.”

The Canadian rapper Drake filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Common Music Group (UMG) in November, alleging they initiated a smear marketing campaign to tarnish his picture with “false factual allegations” that he is a “licensed pedophile.”

He additionally accused UMG of utilizing bots to inflate the streaming numbers for Not Like Us, deceptive customers about its recognition.

In January, Drake launched one other lawsuit in opposition to UMG, claiming defamation of character and accusing the label of orchestrating a smear marketing campaign designed to break his status by spreading a “false factual allegation” that he’s a “licensed pedophile.”

UMG has refuted the allegations within the lawsuits, stating: “Not solely are these claims unfaithful, however the notion that we might search to hurt the status of any artist-let alone Drake-is illogical.

“We’ve got invested massively in his music and our workers world wide have labored tirelessly for a few years to assist him obtain historic industrial and private monetary success.”

The assertion reveals that the artist has “deliberately and efficiently used UMG to distribute his music and poetry to have interaction in conventionally outrageous back-and-forth ‘rap battles’ to precise his emotions about different artists” all through his profession.

Now, he “seeks to weaponize the authorized course of to silence an artist’s artistic expression and to hunt damages from UMG for distributing that artist’s music.”

The assertion continues: “We’ve got not and don’t interact in defamation-against any particular person. On the identical time, we are going to vigorously defend this litigation to guard our individuals and our status, in addition to any artist who may straight or not directly develop into a frivolous litigation goal for having completed nothing greater than write a track.”

The L.A. Instances spoke with Ken White, a distinguished 1st Modification litigator, felony protection lawyer, and podcaster – who is just not straight concerned within the case – about what Kendrick performing the track means in relation to Drake’s lawsuit.

When requested if there is a threat to enjoying the track, Ken stated there was however it’s “low” since he “intentionally went after UMG, and stated this is not about Kendrick.”

“All he [Drake] would be capable to do is say, ‘UMG promoted this track on the Tremendous Bowl, their arms acquired Kendrick Lamar the gig.’ It would not appear to extend Lamar’s menace profile a lot. It is already a broadly recognized track, so the stance Drake appears to take is, ‘I’ll go after form of the unpopular defendant nobody likes, a giant document label,’ the lawyer continued.

He added: “He added: “It will increase the damages in principle. However does center America listening to Kendrick on the Tremendous Bowl actually harm Drake’s status greater than it is already been broken? Most likely not. It does doubtlessly usher in different people who find themselves chargeable for serving to to publish what he says are false statements. I am certain the NFL and the community and all have considered that. It would not shock me in the event that they’re making an attempt to cease it from being completed on the Tremendous Bowl.

“I am a protection lawyer, so in fact I’ll say, ‘Guys, do not do that. It is simply going to offer me a headache.’ I am certain each basic counsel with the community or the NFL is saying, ‘No, for the love of God, do not do it.’ However the halftime present has all the time been prepared to showcase stuff that’s considerably edgy. So I do not actually understand how they’re going to play it, but when I had been an in-house counsel, I might be telling them to not do it,” he concluded.

The NFL are additionally rumored to be pleased to play the track however with the same old censors on sure lyrics.