HOUSTON — Texas-based iHeartMedia mentioned it settled its authorized dispute with Drake over Kendrick Lamar’s diss observe “Not Like Us” after demonstrating that it “did nothing incorrect.”
Drake had alleged in a authorized petition filed in November that iHeartMedia acquired unlawful funds from Universal Music Group to spice up radio airplay for “Not Like Us.” UMG is the mother or father document label for each Drake and Lamar.
San Antonio-based iHeartMedia initially declined to touch upon the settlement that was revealed final week in court docket paperwork. The media firm launched an up to date assertion Monday.
“In change for paperwork that confirmed iHeart did nothing incorrect, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No funds have been made — by both of us,” the assertion mentioned.
In a court docket doc filed Thursday in Bexar County, the place San Antonio is positioned, attorneys for Drake mentioned the rapper and iHeartMedia had “reached an amicable decision of the dispute” however didn’t provide 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 tune itself, in addition to its accompanying album artwork and music video, attacked the character of one other one in all 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 largest in hip-hop in recent times.
