His complaint against his label UMG may not take the turn he expected…
This was one of the most commented news stories of last week: Drake is visibly preparing to file a complaint against his label because of the success of “Not Like Us”, Kendrick Lamar’s diss track directed at him. Basically, Drizzy blames his label, Universal Music Group (to which K.Dot is also signed) to resort to fraudulent practices to highlight this or that song, that they would have faked the figures for “Not Like Us” and even resorted to bribes paid to certain radio stations so that they broadcast the title. But old tweets from Nikci Minaj have tarnished the Canadian rapper’s fight a little…
The sprinkler watered?
Drake and Nicki Minaj are supposed to get along quite well, especially since the Young Money adventure days. But knowing the Canadian, he must have tried to make a move in her direction, she rejected him, and since then the relationship between the two seems less cordial. It must also be said that the rapper does not have her tongue in her pocket, and When in 2018, she released her album “Queen”, she did not hesitate to let the entire rap game know that certain artists were favored by their label and platforms over others. And the privileged one, in his case, was clearly Drake.
“Spotify put Drake’s face on every playlist but told me they had to teach me a lesson because I played my music ten minutes before the official release on Queen Radio. Even though they play my music for free for years and I’m one of the biggest Spotify artists of all time”we can read in Nicki Minaj’s old tweet. A tweet which directly highlights the fact that platforms and labels have always preferred to highlight certain artists rather than others. And above all, that at one time, it was Drake who benefited from this preferential treatment.
And at that timehe WEIRDLY did not want to file a complaint against his label. However, the manipulation was grotesque:Drake’s head even appeared on playlists that didn’t contain any of his songs, like “Fresh Gospel” or “Best of British.”
It’s true that it’s a bit hypocritical to come and complain now about the “unequal” way in which the industry acts depending on the artists, when Drake has literally benefited from this preferential treatment for almost his entire career… In any case, the next few weeks promise to be interesting if Drizzy wants to see his palintes through to the end!
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