If what Drake is saying in the pre-action is true that opens up a huge can of worms for UMG and Spotify.

Yeah so see below:

"According to the Copyright Act, a digital phonorecord delivery (DPD) is the digital transmission of a sound recording that results in a reproduction that can be identified by the recipient. The reproduction must be stable enough to be perceived, reproduced, or communicated for more than a short time.
DPDs include: Permanent downloads, Limited downloads, and Interactive streams.
However, a DPD is not considered to occur if the transmission is real-time and non-interactive, and no reproduction of the sound recording is made before the recipient receives it.
The Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) or a Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) establish rates for DPDs. These rates can be determined through negnegotiations between the affected parties, or by the CRJs or CARP if the parties can't agree".

SO HERE IS WHAT IM SEEING: nobody is saying people don't buy streams viS a viS advertisements and the such like an YouTube auto play of weekends newest song having a commercial about the weekends new song lolol.. AND it seems like the music industry even facilitates this legally (see above). Even when artists and labels pay to do the promoting.. THE PROBLEM IS WHEN IT IS NOT DISCLOSED. See below

SO: the discerning factor here, and what drakes teams banking on, is that they never disclosed the payola being outputted.. which ngl makes sense given the fact that they wanted to keep s*** quiet during the beef.. ladies and gentlemen ngl.. we may actually have a legit complaint here lmaoo.. really depends on disclosures, see below, it's def the theme of the complaint, still reading but im ngl the strat is promising, you really think they disclosed all this s*** publically during the beef? 🤔😬🥴

oh he serious serious damn

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Ak's episode where he brings the guy on who confirmed they paid for streams is cited in the complaint lmaoo

They probably didn't think he would take their bluff.

Maybe bigger percentage of money made...maybe he wants a 1 billion dollar contract

Yeah see above it's literally nothing at all completely legit 🤣🤣🤣

no way lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

it's pretty normal in these filings to just throw s*** at the wall and see what sticks, and the request is for evidence and maintaining umg records

It’s funny people bringing up the Spotify Scorpion promo as a “got ya” when (despite being heavy handed) that was clearly done out in the open and we could see someone paid for promo… not secret bot farms inflating streams, although for all we know it’s been something in the past that’s benefitted him (and other big artists)

Nah I mean it's relevant and pretty consequential to the theory of the case (non disclosure of payola) who knows what'll transpire but imagine an ak testimony? 😂😂😂

It's notable that it seems he never wanted to take a legal route but they forced his hand.

This so chaotic

I'm here for it

On iMessage?

hopefully dust settles and people realize this is drake going at "the industry" not at kendrick or rap

if kendrick sued his own label it'd be "the hip hop savior sticking up for the little guy" but its drake so its "see this is why drake is bad for hip hop"

damn you dont wanna post with us no more

sucks how much of the internet is full of s*** jokes for interactions

I didn't think that guy was legit

If kendrick did it right after losing a beef and referenced a song in the beef that was a huge part of him losing, he'd def be clowned bro come on

If you managed to get an alt in that groupchat, I would honestly be impressed.