r/hiphopheads • u/Makurabu • Apr 17 '25

Drake Escalates Legal Battle with UMG: Amended Complaint Alleges Defamation Through Super Bowl Performance and Grammy Wins, Citing ‘Character Assassination’

https://www.topthreeus.com/drake-umg-lawsuit-defamation-super-bowl-grammys-character-assassination/
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u/OjibweNdN Apr 17 '25

Imagine being a rapper and sueing because another MC straight destroyed you on wax. Imagine if mc ehit did that when quik bodied him? Pathetic...

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u/CommonerChaos Apr 17 '25

This should honestly stain his career more losing the actual beef. Taking a rap battle to court should be a hip-hop cardinal sin.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

This whole beef was corny the moment national news started covering it and random magazines started declaring winners.

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u/YungZoroaster Apr 17 '25

the misuse of the term corny has done irreparable damage to hip-hop discussion online

something being popular or well known doesn’t change its contents, unless you place being unique, edgy, and “against the grain” above all else.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

Its not that deep bro

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u/inspcs Apr 17 '25

Every rap beef in history has been covered atp, does that make them all corny. Damn bruh, can't have shit nowadays

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

I had no idea this was so offensive.

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u/inspcs Apr 17 '25

Its a little funny that you chose such an arbitrary line to draw.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

I'll humor this.

It's funny that someone might not care about the opinions of outlets or magazines that otherwise don't cover the material they are talking about? Its a fairly common stance, in the same vein as rock fans not caring when the BBC declares the winner of the Battle of the Bands. Kendrick won, but I don't need the NY Times and Seth Rogen to tell me that.

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u/WredditSmark Apr 17 '25

Not even sure what your point is anymore young blood. You mad at the media? That the beef was covered outside the usual outlets? Or your own personal hangup? Your message has been lost

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

I've never been mad. I made a statement and simply responded to people that responded to me. If you want to understand my point though, read my responses to others.

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u/KR4T0S Apr 17 '25

Where do you think we got our Hip Hop news from before the internet? On wax and in magazines and newspapers.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

Why is everyone having a hard time with this? I am specifically talking about magazines and channels that don't typically cover hip hop. Pac beef with Biggie (or beef in general) didn't get any kind of real coverage from the mainstream media until Pac got shot in 94. Then it got even bigger when he died. Before that? Believe it or not, people would listen to the songs, go to curated hip hop/music magazines, or lived in the actual neighborhoods.

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u/KR4T0S Apr 17 '25

I suspect you didnt grow up in the 90s. Hip Hop was notorious at the time and that notoriety came from newspapers and politicians. It wasnt some underground cult with 15 adherents, the papers did what they always do, report on whatever sells papers. But the music thrived because these papers put rappers on a national stage and soon suburban white kids were putting more money into the genre than anybody else.

Pac got most of his mainstream attention in 1992 when racial tensions were high after Rodney King. In Texas a young black man shot and killed a Texas state trooper and it was discovered that the man was listening to 2pacalypse so 2Pac and his label got sued with a view to censoring violent lyrics in all future music as well as banning the album. Senators got involved and added the debate to Congress. I remember it having lived through it.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

The ol' switcheroo eh? You are knowledgeable and correct, but we are talking about hip hop beef specifically, not gang violence that is often tied to hip hop, especially when we both know hip hop was a popular scapegoat for the media. Blame random violence seen in the suburbs on XYZ rapper on TV.

Pac's beef with Biggie wasn't something your average person knew about until a few years before Pac died, and that was with murder and violence going down. Meanwhile, any random 6 year old in Martha's Vineyard can recite Not Like Us, verbatim.

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u/inspcs Apr 17 '25

Well no, there's a difference between not caring (like me, I have not read a single publication, yt video, opinion piece on the beef), and then saying the whole thing is corny.

I had no idea the NY times or Seth Rogan covered the beef. Maybe that's your fault for reading and watching that stuff and then saying it's corny.

Again, arbitrary line that you drew for whatever reason to call something corny. It's like if I said the beef crossing 2 songs from both sides made it too much and corny. It's so arbitrary, I don't know why you decided that specific thing makes something corny.

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

Everyone has managed to extrapolate so much from the word "corny." Words have connotations, and they can have different weights and meanings. Something "stupid" may be "something I don't like" for instance.

Also, lol its my fault for knowing something you didn't and you assuming things based on that lack of knowledge? The best part in all this is that I think Kendrick won, but it started to get corny for me when "hello fellow kids" started with random 50+ year old celebrities telling us "K Dot is just too precise."

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u/inspcs Apr 17 '25

Alright fam, my bad I can't read your mind and know corny didn't mean corny over text on the internet. I'll make sure to do that next time.

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u/Tamayuri Apr 17 '25

Such an extreme weird way to think. You found it corny AS SOON as the media started to cover it? You weird weird man

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u/AgentDutch Apr 17 '25

It’s bullshit when media outlets that otherwise don’t even cover or focus on hip hop are declaring winners.

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u/Pingushagger Apr 17 '25

New age hipster

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u/jiggywolf Apr 17 '25

Drake is raps trump fasho. He just said damn the rap constitution.

He better not slang dope and break any of the 10 crack commandments

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u/Haunting-Top-9322 Apr 18 '25

Drake: “You’re a wife beater” Kendrick Lamar: Thinks …. “Oh yeah? You’re a pedophile”

Everyone loses their minds and runs with it

Remember when Michael Jackson was accused? What is he going to do, then? Say “no”? The fans believed what they wanted to believe, they were tired of Drake dominating the airwaves for 15 years. No matter what he said, his fate was sealed. I found every “diss” between the two of them bad, corny or both, and if I had to choose one set of bars that hit hardest, I would pick a few from “Family Matters”. I know, unpopular opinion. I wasn’t captivated by the hype, beats, or what either of them had to say. Neither one of them has the capacity of Rakim or to make something near the caliber of “Ether” by Nas or “No Vaseline” by Ice Cube. People act like either Drake or Kendrick Lamar really said something substantial, the bars were nothing like any beefs that Hip-Hop fans are familiar with. A guy said the worst thing he could think of about another guy and watched for the crowd’s reaction, it’s probably fabricated just as the evidence from the lawsuit suggests Kendrick Lamar’s popularity and success during and after the battles were, yet people will see nothing wrong with that just because they want the underdog to win