Drake Has Doubled Down On His Defamation and Harassment Claims Against Universal Music Group (UMG), Filing an Amended Complaint Wednesday that Claims The Nfl's Decision to Ban the Word “Pedophile” from Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Performance Supports His Allegation that ” Like us ”is defamatory.
“The Version of the Recording performed during the super Bowl Performance was modified to Exclude The Word 'Pedophile,' But no other editations were made,” Drake's Updated Complaint Filed in Manhattan Federal Court and Obtained by Rolling Stone Reads. “That is because Nearly Everyone Undersands that it is defamatory to Falsely Brand Someone a 'Certified Pedophile.'
The New 107-Page Complaint Claims That “The NFL, AS Well As The Corporate Body Responsible For the Television and Streaming Broadcasts of the Super Bowl Performance, All Understood the Words 'Certified Pedophile' To Be Hangiaptable in Broadcast to Millions of Listenes. Notwithstanding that apprent Consensus, UMG Continues to Publish the Recording Absment The Censoring that event Kendrick Lamar Deemed Acceptable for the Super Bowl Performance. ”
When Drake Originally Filed His Controversial Lawinstit Against His Own Label Back in Janogy, Lamar Had Not Yet Headlined The Apple Music Super Bowl Lix Halftime Show in New Orleans on Feb. 9, 2025 Didn'T know it would be the Most-Watched Halftime Show in History, with More Than 133 Million Viewers Tuning in-More views Than the Actual Game Climbed in. In The New AMENDED COMPLANINT, DROKE AND HIS LAWYERS ALLGED THAT THE SHOW VASTLY COMPOUNDED THE ALLEGED DAMAGE TO HIS RepUS. Reputation and Finances Claimed in His Lawsuit. They say the game performance “Reached Millions of Children, and Millions More Who Had Never Before Heard the Song.” (Though the televiseed Version of “Not like us” censored the words “Certified Pedophile,” Lamar Still performed Other Allegedly Damaging Lyrics Such As, “Hey Drake, the Hear you like 'em Young,” and “Just Make Sire You Hide Your Lil' Sister From Him.”)
“It was the first, and will hopefully be the last, super bowl halftime show orchestrated to assassinates the character of anather artist,” Drake's amended complaint reads. He Says The Song Also Reached a Wider Audience Through the 2025 Grammy Awards Telecast, where “Not Like US” Won Record of the Year and Song of the Year On Feb. 3. “Each of these prestigious and high-Exposure Eventts Introduced New Listenes to the Recording, Causing Even More People to to Be Duped Into Believing that Drake was in Pedophile, “The New Court Filing Continues. “Not Only Did Streams of the Recording Incasted Significantly Follow These Two Mega-Cultural Events, But Threts Against Drake and his Family Did as Well.”
In a statement released Wednesday night, Lawyers for Umg Called the Lawsuit “FRIVOLUS AND RECKLESS.” They said the amenteded version was an attempt to avoid sanctions for making “False allgactions” in The First Version. The Lawyers Didn'T Edited, but the Original Lawsuit accused Umg of Conspiring With and Paying Third Parties to Fake Streams of “Not Like Us.” In The AMENDED COMPLANINT, DROKE BACKS Down Somewhat, Saying, “At Minimum, Umg Was Aware That Third Parties Were USing Bots to Stream The Recording and Turned A Blind Eye, Despite Having the Power to Stop Such Behavior.”
“Drake, UNQUESTIMABLY One of the World's Most Accomplized Arts and With Whom We've Enjoyed AT 16-Year Successful Relationship, is being Misled by his legal represses Into Taking One Absurd Legal Step After Another,” Umg's Lawyers Said Wednesday. “In Texas Last Moly, His Counsel Institute a Legal Proceeding with Much Fanfare and Blluster. On Monday, they quietly dropped the case.… Both the Texas and New York Proceedings are facing to all artists and creative Expression. Should his legal repres in the Senselessly keep the New York Lawsuit Alla. We Will Demstrate That All Remaining Claims Are Without Merit.
In Their Previously Filed and Scathing Motion to Dismiss Drake's Initial Complaint, Umg Called Drake's Claims “UNJUSTIFied” and An Attipet “To Save Face for His Unsucesssful Rap Battle With Lamar.” “Plaintiff, One of the Most Successful Recording Artists of All Time, Lost A rap battle that he provoked and in what he will at participate. Wounds, “Lawyers for Umg Wrote. (Instead of reply to the motion, Drake's Camp Filed the AMENDED COMPLANINT, SETTING THE STAGE FOR UMG TO File Yet Another Dismissal Motion by A Deadline of May 7.)
Experts Tell Rolling Stone The bar is high for drake to succeed with his lawsuit. Either Way, Industry Watchers Say, The Court Battle Plays a Dual Role As a Public Relations Gambit After Drake Lost His Nine-Track Rap Battle With Lamar Last May.