HOUSTON (AP) — 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 wrong.”
Drake had alleged in a authorized petition filed in November that iHeartMedia obtained unlawful funds from Common Music Group to spice up radio airplay for “Not Like Us.” UMG is the dad or mum file 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 Saturday.
“In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No payments were made — by either one 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 resolution of the dispute” however didn’t provide some other info.
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 music itself, in addition to its accompanying album artwork and music video, attacked the character of one other one in every of 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.
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The story has been up to date to appropriate that iHeartMedia’s revised assertion was launched on Saturday as an alternative of Monday.
