On June 30, 2025, following court docket listening to on the Drake-UMG authorized tussle, Drake’s authorized group determined to seem in entrance of a federal choose in Manhattan. The legal professionals urged the court docket to maneuver forward and proceed with Drake’s defamation case in opposition to Common Media Group, which was filed following the favored Drake-Kendrick diss battle.
Within the preliminary listening to itself, questions have been raised concerning the nature of the lyrics: is it slander, or “trash speak” taken to the acute.
Within the aftermath of the Manhattan attraction following the trial, a spokesperson for Drake has issued the next assertion:
“UMG is determined to see this case not transfer ahead as a result of the corporate can’t conceal its misconduct in a courtroom the best way it does within the boardroom. Quickly, along with going through involved regulators and buyers, the management of music’s strongest label should reply for the injury it has prompted to each artist that has been silenced, exploited, endangered or discarded.”
To this point in the entire fiasco, UMG has maintained its place whereby they really feel that Drake is pursuing the case not as a result of he feels wronged on knowledgeable entrance, however quite for having misplaced a rap battle to a different artist. UMG has additionally maintained the place that Drake, too, has typically used language he seeks to criticise.
After all, Drake’s group thinks in any other case — as has been made clear by the freshly issued assertion. Keep tuned for extra updates on the case because it unravels.