HOUSTON (AP) — Texas-based iHeartMedia stated it settled its authorized dispute with Drake over Kendrick Lamar’s diss monitor “Not Like Us” after demonstrating that it “did nothing wrong.”
Drake had alleged in a authorized petition filed in November that iHeartMedia acquired unlawful funds from Common Music Group to spice up radio airplay for “Not Like Us.” UMG is the mother or father report label for each Drake and Lamar.
San Antonio-based iHeartMedia initially declined to touch upon the settlement that was revealed final week in courtroom paperwork. The media firm launched an up to date assertion Monday.
“In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No payments were made — by either one of us,” the assertion stated.
In a courtroom doc filed Thursday in Bexar County, the place San Antonio is positioned, attorneys for Drake stated the rapper and iHeartMedia had “reached an amicable resolution of the dispute” however didn’t supply some other data.
A listening to on a movement by UMG’s attorneys to dismiss Drake’s petition is scheduled for Wednesday.
Drake’s petition additionally alleges UMG knew “the music itself, in addition to its accompanying album artwork and music video, attacked the character of one other certainly one of UMG’s most distinguished artists, Drake, by falsely accusing him of being a intercourse offender.”
The feud between Drake, a 38-year-old Canadian rapper and singer and five-time Grammy winner, and Lamar, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner who headlined the Tremendous Bowl halftime present on Feb. 9, is among the many greatest in hip-hop lately.
