{"id":39123,"date":"2025-04-18T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/drake-expands-lawsuit-against-universal-music-group-alleging-defamation-at-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T10:54:59","slug":"drake-expands-lawsuit-against-universal-music-group-alleging-defamation-at-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/drake-expands-lawsuit-against-universal-music-group-alleging-defamation-at-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake expands lawsuit against Universal Music Group, alleging defamation at Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit argues Kendrick Lamar\u2019s half-time performance \u2018further solidified\u2019 public belief in allegations made in diss track Not Like Us, but UMG calls amendment \u2018absurd\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Drake has expanded his lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar\u2019s diss track Not Like Us, alleging that he was defamed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/feb\/09\/kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-half-time-show-review-game-over-for-drake%5D\">La<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/feb\/09\/kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-half-time-show-review-game-over-for-drake\">mar\u2019s half\u2013time performance<\/a> at the 2025 Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>With lyrics including \u201cSay Drake, I hear you like \u2019em young \u2026 certified lover boy? Certified paedophile,\u201d Lamar\u2019s track was one of a number of diss tracks issued by the rappers against each other in spring 2024. Not Like Us became the most commercially successful, reaching No 1 in the US and UK, and it also won Lamar five Grammy awards including record and song of the year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/apr\/18\/drake-expands-lawsuit-against-universal-music-group-alleging-defamation-at-super-bowl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit argues Kendrick Lamar\u2019s half-time performance \u2018further solidified\u2019 public belief in allegations made in diss track Not Like Us, but UMG calls amendment \u2018absurd\u2019 Drake has expanded his lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar\u2019s diss track Not Like Us, alleging that he was defamed by Lamar\u2019s half\u2013time performance at the 2025 Super &#8230; <a title=\"Drake expands lawsuit against Universal Music Group, alleging defamation at Super Bowl\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/18\/drake-expands-lawsuit-against-universal-music-group-alleging-defamation-at-super-bowl\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Drake expands lawsuit against Universal Music Group, alleging defamation at Super Bowl\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}