True Life: I Was Named in Drake's Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group

Six thoughts on the 6God's downfall

So Aubrey Drake Graham filed another lawsuit against Universal Music Group after withdrawing a legal inquiry last week. This time, the 38-year-old claimed that the label allowed Kendrick Lamar to release “Not Like Us” despite it potentially harming his credibility and leading to physical harm, as well as pumping out the song using more nefarious methods. There’s a couple notable differences between this most recent lawsuit and Aubrey’s last few legal shenans, notably, that his lawyers listed a number of journalists, streamers, influencers and random ass YouTube commenters that, they argue, have cited “Not Like Us” as the reason why allegations of his pedophilia have gained traction. And yeah, one of those journalists just happens to be yours truly.

On an episode of NPR’s It’s Been A Minute hosted by Brittany Luse, NPR reporter and editor, Sidney Madden and I talked through the Lamar-Aubrey beef last year and we were basically like…damn having pedophilia next to your name especially coming from a contemporary is probably not a good look. That was all it took for us to be deemed as three of the Canadian Menace’s Ops. And I just wanted to say a few things about that real quick just to be as clear as possible with y’all: