*Charlamagne Tha God dubbed Drake the “Donkey of the Day” during the Dec. 2 broadcast of The Breakfast Club for threatening legal action against UMG.
As we reported earlier citing CNN, Drake alleges that Universal Music Group “conspired” to artificially boost Kendrick Lamar’s searing diss track “Not Like Us” on Spotify, according to a pre-action petition submitted to a New York court on Monday.
According to a copy of the petition, obtained by CNN, the rapper claims that UMG “launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves” with Lamar’s song “in order to make that song go viral, including by using ‘bots’ and pay-to-play agreements.”
The song, part of what has become a very public feud between Lamar and the “Hotline Bling” rapper, debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 when it was released in May, according to Billboard. It has also amassed almost 900 million streams on Spotify to date, according to the petition.
Drake also alleges UMG used these “bots,” which are essentially fake social media accounts, “to artificially inflate the spread of ‘Not Like Us’ and deceive consumers into believing the Song was more popular than it was in reality.”
Charlamagne noted that Kendrick “kicked yo a** lyrically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally,” so Drake is big mad.
“Stop acting like you haven’t been the beneficiary of record label tricknology,” Charlamagne Tha God stated, Vibe reports. “You being a whole h*e simply because you lost. Simply because Kendrick Lamar kicked yo a** lyrically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. And anybody acting like this is anything more than Drake’s feelings being hurt, you a h*e, too. An OV-H*e to be exact.”
He also slammed online commentators who compared Drake’s lawsuit to Michael Jackson’s controversial battle with Sony.
“You chose to tap out after not hearing ‘Not Like Us.’ Kendrick dropped too much tune for your headtop? He gave you ‘Euphoria,’ ‘6:16 in LA,’ ‘Meet The Grahams,’ and ‘Not Like Us’ [and] it was too much for you,” Charlemagne continued.
“You could have went in the studio and gave us a bop—you the bop guy! You could have gotten with some ghostwriters, went in the studio, and wrote a hit to combat ‘Not Like Us,’ but you chose not to,” he added.
Charlamagne advised Drake to “Take a break, let nostalgia bring you back.”
Watch the clip below.
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