DJ Akademiks Live Streams - Drake Sues Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar 'Not Like Us' again!! Diddy Denied Bail!

Episode Date: November 28, 2024

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Welcome, everyone. Oh, we have 3,000 people on Twitch. Usually Twitch is around like 2000 now because most of the people go to, they'll go to YouTube. It'll be about like 13,000 there, and then there'll be like 4,000 on Rumble. Okay, anyway, welcome, guys.

Number one, first and foremost, Happy Thanksgiving. I wanted to stream like the last two days. I didn't stream. I actually feel bad for that. But I'm glad I'm here now. Number one, I wanted to send, you know, really thanks and me giving thanks to you guys for support me all this time.

You know, I was looking on Twitter, which I try not to a lot. I just get my pains off and kind of get off. I don't try to consume some of the toxicness on there. But niggott, it was like a tweet that had like, like, 100,000 people. I've never seen some things. They were like, I forgot what it was. They were like, what would you want the most? They were like, we want to see academics killed.

And I was like, God, you know, people hate me. So, you know, obviously I don't focus on the haters. I always focus on people who support me. And I'm really excited and very happy that you guys have, you know, I think we have a pretty sizable audience. I think probably the biggest audience in hip hop. And somehow I'm still the most hated person. It's kind of crazy.

I have no idea. You get what I'm saying? So, if you're someone who's watched my stream, left a positive comment, came to an event, bought some merch, supported me any type of way. I do want to use this opportunity, and even today as streaming, to let you know, I appreciate you because trust me, I think I'm one of the most dislike people online for whatever reason. Obviously, they're going off whatever they've probably seen. And I appreciate the people who have kept me afloat, but not only kept me afloat,

but not only kept me in a position where we still have a voice that matter. So salute to the chat. I do this all for you guys, and I love you guys. I appreciate you so much. Okay. So getting into a lot of what we're going to try to get to. I got to get to all of this before. If you don't know,

and I don't know what time you guys like eat Thanksgiving dinner or whatever the case is. I started out drinking today. So I got to link up with the fam eventually. But my, you know, that's my first family. My second family is here. So, you know, I'm just going to get lit with you out a little bit. And, you know, I'll go eat Thanksgiving at the, you know, later anyway what we do for Thanksgiving the turkey just like it just on the side curry goat

oxdale you got realize I'm Jamaican right like I was born in Jamaica so like really Thanksgiving is just like the tradition is more about just food so it's the best type of food curry goat curry chicken oxdale jerk chicken stew chicken I mean like some of the greatest stuff obviously you know mac and cheese and those stuff still there but yeah anyway so I just want to kick it with you out for a little bit I know I didn't talk about the second lawsuit that Drake filed. We're going to talk about that too. I've also been internet watching the last, like, day,

because I was going to go live. Last night I'm talking to a bunch of people, like, you know, industry people in there, like, you're like, you're acting. We want, like, they were waiting for me to go live last night because, unbeknownst to many of y'all, like, a lot of people in the industry watch our stream, not only for sometimes the informational aspect, because we're definitely informative, but they definitely watch it for, like, real honest, unbiased conversation. And, you know, shit.

I don't know a lot of you. Even like a time like now, I'll give you a conversation. I won't tell you who. Somebody pretty substantial, you know, represents pretty huge artist in the game. They had a conversation with me yesterday. They were like, yo, listen, I got to call you. We watch the stream clearly. What's up?

What's going on right now? And I don't know. Even the industry is kind of frantically figuring out or trying to understand what's going on. but it's more of trying to like forecast what's going to happen with this entire Drake thing. Now, for me, understand the media, it's kind of hard to discuss because the majority of the people who are discussing this, especially the K-barbs, they're going to think this is a Drake and Kendrick thing, which is not. There's a bigger, bigger issue going on. And I do have some criticisms of Drake that I'm going to levy today. timing a couple things there's certain things that like you know you know if you know anything about

you just you do the same things you just do it very differently because people are now going to slander you based on what they're seeing right um so we'll get into that we'll get into diddy pause um did he was actually denied bail and a few other topics that's floating around i don't know how long i could go today but i'll try to bang everything out pause all right how are y'all doing now Somebody say, yo, take a day. Bro, there's no. Hey, chat, let me tell you. This is what I keep telling y'all.

Streaming to me is not a job. This is most enjoyable thing. When I want to have a good day, I get drunk and I talk hip-hop with anybody. I do it for free. I do it with friends. I do with anybody. Anything else is boring to me. So I know sometimes, like, I think the majority of people, they, you know, first of all,

half of these people, they're not, they don't have the play. of owning their own platform and doing what they want so they're just doing even if they're claimed they love hip-hop they're clocking into a job me whenever I want to get online it's fine I enjoy this this is not a you know this is not a chore I really genuinely there's nothing I like more anyway okay so we're going to get into the second lawsuit that um or not lawsuit we got to be very clear so Drake did file two petitions I'm gonna be honest I'm gonna be I'm honest, bro. Worst time and ever. Like, literally. Worst timing ever. I've talked to so many people, like so many people. And for anybody who needs a cliff hangar or I'll kill the suspense,

y'all know me and Drake talk about a lot of things. I know whatever, whatever you might think. Drake has zero comment. He has said nothing to me about this. Anything I'm going to say today will not be a reflection of what Drake thinks or nothing of the sort of what he's ever told me. about this but i've spoken to a wide array of people not only several people working within the universal music group building other artists other managers conglomerates um these agencies that are kind of like adjacent to what's going on and there's a lot to break down um but i do have to get it out of the way because some people sometimes feel like i'm the mouthpiece for drake none of anything i'm going to say today is going to be the thoughts, opinions, or even my sentiment that I've gotten from any conversation with Drake about any of this. We've not spoken about this. He's not spoken

about this. I do have opinions about that because I do think that Drake has to say something immediately. Like, I mean, I'll give you all a real opinion. You want a real opinion? Because I know I think that I'm controlled by Drake. I'm kind of like shocked by how this got rolled out. Number one, here's the thing. I look at it like this. One of your biggest supporters of me

is the biggest media outlet. Bro, you don't just drop two petitions. I think, and that's why I personally think he didn't think everyone was going to get up on this, even though the second one lists his name. He did it under his company. My nigga,

you can't do this and not have some type of direction because during the week that your biggest opt, is dropping. They're going to spin it to make it seem like you're the police. They're going to, like, the notion that Drake is the police or anticipating

to sue his label is crazy. And I always tell people, I'm cool with anybody, yo, I'm cool with the rules. Just don't change them. Tell me the rules. Don't change them. Like, I see a lot of these uneducated artists and even like media personality saying, Drake is the cops or Drake is snitching. I'm so happy to hear that

because everybody gets fucked in their deal and I want no more lawsuits to ever come out versus Universal Music Group and if we're not going to treat this with the same again timing is bad that's my biggest thing with Drake my biggest critique with Drake is the timing is horrible the timing is horrible

and the lack of direction that's allowing the media to spin this whatever way is very bad you gave you served up something to your ops to spin it like Drake is suing because he's butt hurt over a rap beat which that's not the case that's really bad that's where PR comes in and that's why I even look at him like bro someone has to tell you like yo people are dumb a headline tells a story for dumb people you need to direct if you're going to file a petition there's in the week when Kendrick's album's dropping. And by the way, I did get an answer from industry people. Why would Drake drop this lawsuit at this time? Or, you know, let me stop saying lawsuit.

Why would he file this petition? There's a few things. And let's get into it a little bit, all right? Everybody here? Got to make sure everybody's not tapped. Cool. Okay. So very importantly, the reason,

well, this looks a little grainy. Here we go. So, really important, this is, I've talked to so many people. I have, my, my mic is low. Okay, I'll bring this up a lot more. Sorry, each other. Okay. Mike up a little bit more.

Okay. Give me a second. I'm just one. So I want to give you out some details. Again, all these details, most of them are coming through. Y'all know, I speak with everybody in the game, right? A lot of people on the universe. So I speak to everybody, right?

Again, Drake is silent on this. And I'm going to respect it. And I think we all should. I don't think it's the best thing to do to be silent because they're trying to act like this was the most non-hip hop move of all time. Right. So you need to address it. You need to kind of clarify.

And again, I can't say nothing. There's other people who are interpreting correctly, but their voices won't be louder than the source. You know, you've got to get ahead of this. Anyway, here's the point. This is what Universal, and these are people that work in the Universal building, have told me. And by the way, to be very clear, I have a really good relationship with Universal. So y'all should know, as much as y'all think I'm a Drake stand, Drake can't ever pay me a dollar.

Me and Universal have a great relationship, just to let you know, right? So anything I'm going to say, you should probably think is act that much delusional where he's just going to, say some false shit for Drake that's never giving them a dime versus Universal, which I am, again, me and Universal got a good relationship. Let's leave you there. However, I am, you know, my relationship is with anyone. I make sure even if there's monetary incentives or not, I need to be able to be fair. Because the moment that y'all keep listening to me, and I do have some biases. Like, I like Drake's music. I'm sorry.

Like, you know, all that, like, I like that Kendrick song, Mustard, that's cool. but like half of the album is like, bro, I'm not going to listen to this shit ever again. I always tell you where my, yo, I don't listen to, can you could be rapping about some shit that I don't care to hear about?

I listen to Virginia Beach probably every day. That's my song. That's, I like that song. That's me. You might listen to other music is fine. So I do have some biases, but I try to let you guys know. Okay.

So let's get into this. And this is coming from the people who are in the universal building. This is what they're telling me, right? Also, some other people who are great legal. minds. Now, I don't know if I believe everything, but but some of these things kind of rain true. Let me lay certain stuff off you.

Number one, I'm going to keep saying horrible time in. Horrible. Horrible. You don't drop a petition or file anything legally when your biggest op that you're even accusing these labels or entities of inflating his

shit on some fake shit. You don't drop it during his album week because what ends up happening, you're giving him the pub. You're bringing him into the situation. If you didn't do it during this week, it might have been like this. But because you did it during the week that he dropped, it's like this. We got three people on the screen. And he's going to be the person that they're like, oh, man, he really fucked him up. Look what's happening.

So I thought the timing horrible, very, very bad. Okay. Now, in trying to understand the time, and a couple people, and, you know, I'm speaking to these people who are legal people, universal people. This is what I've heard. Again, I'm saying these things. Remember, I know because I know some of y'all are starred for what Drake thinks, but I'm going to keep saying it, Drake told me nothing. told me nothing about any of this, so anything you hear I'm saying, does not reflect the opinion of Aubrey J. Graham is not something that I know because he told me

or his team told me this is everything I'm hearing. And this might actually be biased against him, honestly, because his teammate tell me shit. And this time I have a source that is kind of on the opposite side, not Kendrick, but UMG. So this is what I'm hearing. So Drake, supposedly in this $400 million deal that he signed, he had one more deliverable left, which is the party next door album. Okay? That particular album is, was tentatively and slated to come out this fall. Now, prior to the beef in May, or was it April May, whatever, with Kendrick, there was going to be a last project, something that would come out.

that would then catapult Drake into his next deal. So here how the music industry works. And this is very important for a lot of people who just sit online and chat shit. It's like basketball. These guys are like restricted free agents, right? You don't let them become a free agent before you negotiate and lock them into another deal.

Here's how this also plays. I'll give you a perfect example because we're going to talk about him as well. Remind me to talk about him. Meek Mel. Atlantic. knew they were done with Meek Mill before the last album. They realized that they were not going to extend his contract

or continue to work with him in the capacity that Atlantic needed to protect or keep an image up about him. Once they knew that they weren't going to offer him what they wanted, they had no incentive to not make him look crazy. And what I mean I look crazy, you know, there's a, and trust me, chat keep in mind you know and i'm saying this very humbly even though y'all going to take it wrong it's a reason why i've wedged my way into listen there's no media personality i could talk shit to me and there's no other nigger who does anything you know why because i'm not just a media

personality i'm i've wedged myself into the music business they all rely on me so when i'm saying this i'm also kind of you know slightly exposed myself or jeopardize myself because it doesn't behoove me to even say certain things that might allow you to see beyond the veil that the music industry puts up. Okay? So the reality is this. If you're ever leaving a label, and I want to make this very clear,

if you're ever leaving a label, they're going to try to sign you before you drop your last project. They're going to give you an offer. A lot of these guys, they inflate their value. Oh, okay, I think I'm worth this. I want this amount. No, we're not going to give it to you. Maybe another label's down to give it to you based on what they perceive at the time.

When you drop your last album, I could use several examples. Go look back at the last two drops or the last drop with Atlantic with Young Boy. They knew he was leaving. they came no impasse he wants he wants masters they don't want to give him that they were arguing for months he brought it to internet multiple times they were like all right fuck it let him just drop his project we don't want to send out an artist hot anyway to get back to like a stupid nigga like meek mill and i love shitting on him because dummies should never be respected i don't care what your bank account is okay meek mill he asked for a certain amount of money from from

Atlantic. They laughed about the building. Number one, they never liked him from the get-go. I talked to people there. I've done mad business with Atlantic. They always said him and his team were assholes. So the people who were pushing pen or like the little pencil pushers and the people who are pushing, they never liked the nigga. So the moment that he started cooling down and he started asking for too much money

overvaluing himself and they realized that word from the top is that they were going to only offer him this, but he wanted this. Fuck him. That's how the music industry works It's not only for me It's for everybody Trust me I hear this That's why when I'm shitting on me

Y'all give me credit Hey me The industry kills these niggas I've been saying I took credit for Meek Meek was an asshole To people in Atlantic They couldn't wait to get rid of the nigga

Now this is not a meek thing I'm just trying to show you something So that last album he dropped They were never Going to put resources, his effort this and third to make this the biggest thing. It was already written in stone based on the negotiations they were having. Now, granted, if they were going to sign him and he was going to accept whatever terms they did,

they're incentivized to make sure he's good. Now, I'm going to relate this to Drake. Allegedly, Drake got one more project, allegedly, or one more deliverable. I don't know if it's necessary, but it was supposed to be this human party thing. This is why I'm interested. This is what I'm hearing from Universal. So Drake's supposed to deliver this new thing. It was supposed to be out of the deal by the time the new year started.

He's been negotiating. Here's what happens. And Drake sped through the contract. Drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop. What happens is when you're at your last project, y'all start talking. All right, cool, yo, you don't. It's like contract here. Think about NBA.

All right, you're playing basketball. Sometimes I'm too injured to play when it's contract here. Like that last year before you're a free agent You suck up that injury You gotta play because you won that bigger contract next So Drake did everything He pretty much has one more deliverable He's been talking to them for a while

Talking to them, yo, I need this Yo, I overdid the full of hundred I want six or I want whatever I don't know the exact amount People are floating around six I don't know Cool And by the way this goes into why I think That the party next door record that we're expected

that Drake said was dropped in November. It ain't dropping. First of all, it's November 28th. It's November 28th. It's shit ain't coming. Fuck who they come for. Now, here's the interesting thing. Before Drake could drop that

and then potentially be a free agent, he's been negotiating. He's been thinking, I'm going to go get a bigger payday, maybe $600 million. Right? And that's where, you know, to come back to the time

and some people with UMG say, listen, the building is shut down in less than two weeks. So record labels, essentially every music company, even Spotify, the people who sign off on all these deals, the main decision makers, they're done for the year in two weeks.

Also, if you don't have an album already scheduled at this point to come out, you can roll the dice, but you're not having a full staff and a full label really working for you because everyone is going vacation. This is vacation time. So Drake,

who's been negotiating this deal or trying to figure out the next deal, and remember, that's what I'm saying about this party project. They're going to negotiate it and try to figure it out before you drop your last project. They can't make you become a free agent.

He hasn't been able to figure it out yet. I don't know what the, you know, I'm not privy to that. I don't know if he says, give me 600, they're like, fuck out of here, nigga. We gave you 400 last time. We'll give you 400 again. We don't know.

But they haven't agreed. The beef happens, and from what I've been, you know, told, the conversations have severely not going in Drake's favor. And they re-uping or whatever. It's just not what Drake would think. And essentially, the timing of Drake filing these things, is trying to get to it to possibly get to a resolution before the end of the year,

before everything shuts down. Everything kind of really pops back up mid-January, right? Now, that would make sense, right? You kind of drop your lawsuit or petition now. I'm guessing maybe they're at a stalemate, maybe they ain't talked for a month or two. maybe Universal comes back and says, yo,

yo, come on, yo, let's get that out of here. Here's, we'll give you a better deal, agree to this, and let's move the fuck on, right? Because, again, another thing that's also a miscalculation by a lot of people,

the guy in the middle, which is Lucian Grange, which is the CEO of Universal Music Group, they don't give a fuck about Kendrick or Drake. They look at both of them as, I'm not saying him. They look at both of them as, y'all workers.

We don't even fuck about you. they don't have like something personal against Drake but whatever Drake probably wants they're not going to give you know what I'm saying and also they probably have devalued them a little bit because of this thing over here based on a battle so all of the timing I guess I said all that to explain the timing the timing allegedly and apparently has kind of culminated to right now because they're trying to do this that to continue or to figure out

whatever they're going to do for Drake's next situation, but to also get this party project out, which is very time sensitive. Now, I'm going to be honest with you. It feels like the atmosphere is that Universal is going to take the hardball stance on this, unless Drake folds. I think this is poker right now. Drake at this moment could say, I fold.

And whatever they're offering him or have offered him, right? By the way Go by his own words $400 million for the last deal Let's say they offer him 300 million which is less And maybe he wanted 600 If he folds

This goes away And next year we see Drake Just doing all type of shit And Universal is Toe and toe with him You get what I'm saying But this is And I've said this to many people

Like so many people Who don't necessarily cover The music industry Or even cover this type of stuff they've called me, I said, check this out, people. Drake is having this Taylor Swift moment. And I need you out to understand what that means. Now, I think there's pros and cons for Drake, but I'm going to tell you why it's his Taylor Swift moment.

First and foremost, I should point out that when you see even the top of the top, and we're going to call these people influencers, even though Drake's an artist. but you got to remember when it comes to music business like you're basically an influencer right like you're not the only one they can replace you like overtime shit cycles out what never cycles out is the fact that people listen to music people subscribe to listen to music that's what they're selling they're not selling necessarily one artist because that art is going to grow old might die who knows right that's the whole point of how the music industry looks at the artists, but then the artists, you know, they're leveraging what they, they, um, demand at a time. Okay.

So, and I think I lost my turn to thought slightly here, but hold on. All right. So Drake is trying to get whatever he could get. And it's more predicated on whatever deal he was working on. The labels, they don't feel no type of way necessarily about it. but they're not just handing out free free cash okay I made the um distinction to you guys before about when a label signs this new artist that's successful they're making a 20x 30x multiple off of their investment if they give Drake four hundred million dollars or

let's say they give them 600 million dollars for them to make a 10x multiple Drake would have to generate for that contract, which is probably going to be three or four or five albums, probably three or four albums, $4 billion. Like, just to put that in perspective, just to put that in perspective, that's not a good investment.

Spotify, no, actually, Universal Music Group reported that Spotify paid them for 2023 for every artist they have. Weekend, Taylor Swift, Drake, Postman, Kendrick, everybody, for the year, $2.3 billion. So what I'm trying to say is that whatever investment they're doing with Drake, I know Drake's the biggest rap artists, but it's not incentivized to think that you're going to get that much of a return

in terms of 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 10x, they're not 10x in an investment on Drake. So it means you're going to give this guy like $600 million. and he's not going to 10 exit. It's probably not going to five exit. Maybe two exit. Now, I get it. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, but it does matter because these companies

are not publicly traded in the bottom line. So, Drake filed this lawsuit, and again, I do think he could fold. The folding would be whatever they're offering him, which is probably what he don't want, but he got to get down and lay down.

Now, I do have some problems with this. And going back to what I said, he's having a Taylor Swift moment. Let me explain that. This is very important. Taylor Swift is the only individual. And we're talking post Michael Jackson, who has gone against the label and successfully won and stayed at the label. And the label was still incentivized to push them. Let me give you two examples. And these are not musical examples, but here's the thing. When you have fixed, and I almost want to call it, it's like, it's like damn near monopolistic in a sense. I don't know if you guys follow a lot of like, you know, whether it's legal stuff or you guys

follow business stuff. Let me bring in an example. Right now, there's a federal lawsuit. You will see it's been floating around, I believe, U.S., I think it's in the Southern District or maybe Eastern, Live Nation federal lawsuit. Okay. Now, the Department of Justice, they're actually suing live nations saying you guys are a monopoly okay you're you're violating an antitrust a law that was created and it's basically saying that it suffocates the competition because it controls everything let me explain what that is right so monopolistic entities and i mean there is times that like say amazon has faced that just listen to me here a second you you'll get it i'm going to tell you why this is important when a company controls every control

controls. Because we believe in capitalism, no company should have that much control that there can't be new competitors and basically they're printing free cash. How does Live Nation do that? Live Nation owns Ticketmaster, which is, hey, if you want to go to a concert, you have to buy tickets. They own the ticket and company. Live Nation controls 80% of the big venues. So if I'm the company that's the touring company, I own the ticket and system, I own the venues, I also own the festivals, and I basically own everything that's around the live musical experience,

am I not, how could you ever beat me? because now when you say, hey, I don't want to start up a ticket. I want to start up a touring company. Okay, that's cool. You're going against Live Nation. Once I think you're about to like level up. Like, by the way, they've been doing this to A.G. A.G.

Torin. Who did stuff with Moneybag Yo? Who did stuff with Rod Wave, little baby, and even sexy red. Here's the thing. and I know I'm getting deep into the woods here I told you the story about baby they told little baby yo we'll give you I think what was the number

I think it was like 500 or 600,000 dollars per show take it or leave it now I'm trying to show you what a conglomerate monopolistic entity and this is why like it's bad like you can't just be a monopoly you have to allow competition

because capitalism is supposed to encourage competition to get the best prices, right? Especially for the consumer. Little baby gets offered 500,600,000 by Live Nation. They said that's all we could pay you. You'll do all arenas. Let's go on tour. An independent company comes around and says, hey, baby, we could pay you $900,000.

$300,000 per date more than the other company. Just go with us. We could get these same venues. We're going to book them and whatever, whatever. We're going to deal with all the costs. It's good. In reality, Live Nation could pay a little baby, not $100,000. But because the way how they control the market,

baby don't got no fucking options. So then you get A-G and A-G actually. How they try to compete against Live Nation, then it turns to some other shit, right? It turns to, okay, well, if I'm Live Nation, I'm going to make sure Y'all can get some. some of my venues because these venues they books they booked shit out and if live nations not using them they will book it's other people but now you realize somebody's

trying to undercut you you just you own the venue the venue um shit and then think about this are you going to make sure little baby who didn't do a deal with the company that owns the ticket and company a lot um ticket master you'll make sure his shit get promoted on ticket master or hell not you can't it's going to be shadow band or it's hard to find them tickets you know I'm saying? So it's a monopoly. And that's explicitly been. Okay, let me bring this back to the music business and bring this back to essentially like the whole thing with like Drake and what he got going on, right? So Universal Music Group kind of is the same thing. Not as much as Live Nation, but it's the same thing. Universal Music Group owns part of Spotify. They have deals and heavy

laden incentives with every company that they need to win. So basically, it turns into a situation where Universal Music Group could just print money. If we could influence Spotify to prioritize our artists over an independent artist, how could an independent artist ever compete with UMG? We're giving them billions of dollars to license our catalog. Also, we gave them a discount, but it meant we only owned. part of their company and also we have certain type of control. They would never say some random Joe Schmoe that never did a deal with anyone is going to get

Spotify blanketed approval. No, we own part of Spotify. What the fuck? That person that you're going to give blanket all the playlist with got to be someone who works or someone who signed to UMG. That's how business is being done at the big level. Okay. And I'm sorry for going to these little tanges, but I got to say this for you guys to understand. Okay. So when it now comes to Drake, as I said, he's having his Taylor Swift moment. Taylor Swift is the only person that has made UMG get to one knee for her. Or basically say, we were doing this, but now that you said this or you feel this type of way, we'll go this way.

I'm going to give you examples how she did that. Taylor Swift's biggest fight in her career is that she felt that she was robbed of her master's. Universal, and there's a whole documentary about this, when they were trying to get Taylor Swift into a multi-album agreement, they promised Taylor Swift, we'll get your masters by hook about crook.

We'll get it from Scooter Braun or whoever. We're going to give it back to you. That's not how they usually operate. Taylor Swift, what she did was that she wrote letters. Look, Taylor Swift, big machine, like she would write these like letters or whatever. Like she wrote on her tumbler, like, and her fans would fuck with it.

Like Taylor Swift literally said, hey, what I'm going to have to do to get around this, I'm going to have to drop my old albums again. And her fans was like, Taylor, we love you. We don't care. it again. Taylor dropped her albums twice

and the second time she dropped it outsold the first time even though some of those albums were 10 years old. Why? Her fans love Taylor. Why am I bringing this up? Let's bring it back to Drake. I said Drake is having a Taylor Swift moment. And what I mean

by Taylor Swift moment, I'm not saying it's going to be successful. Because Taylor Swift fans rode with Taylor Swift. They made the late labels say, Taylor, you're right and we can't go against you and so many people who love your music, we're going to make things right with you, even if we take a loss. When Taylor said, yo, UMG, I need y'all to work out, y'all deal with TikTok.

Based on how big Taylor was, UMG got back in a negotiation room and worked it out. Drake is trying to have the same thing. I don't know if it's going to work because I'm going to tell you why. number one, Drake's audience is not as big as Taylor Swift. Number two, Drake is not as transparent with his career as Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift used to write that she was victimized. Look, Taylor Swift, stolen. Like, she would write like, yo, yo, these guys, if they're taking advantage of me.

Like, she would literally break it down on how the, obviously she was getting that big machine a lot, which is owned by school of Bronx. But she would break it down that her fans would be like, no, we love you, Taylor. And this is why it goes back to what I was saying about messaging. Drake just dropped a random petition that's going to lead to a lawsuit. His fans don't even know what's going on. They're like, what's going on?

Half a fan. A regular fan doesn't know the business side of this. Like, you're going to listen to Drake or whoever say, oh, no, you're going to get party next door's album when it's ready. that shit's probably done that's just probably done the business is holding up that album I guarantee it

I'll put I'll put 20,000 on it that album is done but it's the universal bullshit that's holding up that album Drake isn't that transparent and that is the thing because Taylor Swift is going to tell y'all hey

when I was young I signed this deal I thought I was going to get my this they robbed me blah blah and her fans rock with her. So that goes into one of the criticisms I have about Drake. We don't know what the fuck you're intending with this. If you're going for a fight

because he looks like he's angling, just by the lawsuits, looks like you're angling a fight against the labels. But you've got to be very honest. Drake has, I think, the best ever audience in terms of hip-hop. People

have lived. I've lived, you know, some people think, listen, I'm Obviously, I'm glad Drake's the biggest artist and he's my favorite artist. But I grew up 15 years of my life. Listen to this niggas music. 15 years of my life, every song, like cataloging and it was basically being the soundtrack of what I was going through. Like, I'm really, like, I'm connected to the music. That's another thing when people mention Kendrick.

Kendrick just rapping a bunch of bullshit to me. He's a great rapper, but his music doesn't connect to my. life. I started listening to Drake when I was in college. I mean, I'm in my mid-30s, nigger. That's been my life. You know what I'm saying? So again, and there's a lot of people like me. So for the people who'd be like,

oh, why? His music is just like I know people who grew up on Jay-Z, they feel the same. Here's a problem, though. I don't think Drake is as communicative about that type of stuff, right? So here, so let me explain the Taylor Swift moment, and that's what I'm going to explain how Drake is having his.

In every situation that Taylor was disgruntled, she was vocal with her fans. She let her fans know what was going on. I'm sorry, y'all. I got to drop my five or six old albums again because I was robbed. And I was taking advantage of. And her fans believed it and they supported everything she did.

With Drake, we've been kept out of the blue. And also it's a hip-hop thing. Because rappers usually only brag to you. why it's hard to feel bad for rappers. All they do is brag about what they've got and they don't appeal to the side that you could relate to. You don't see Taylor Swift saying, I'm flying on a jumbo jet with the biggest cars ever

and I've spent $40 million buying this person's jewelry. Like, you don't hear that. Taylor Swift just looks like some country girl. But she got more money than everybody. So she appeals to her fans and her fans be like, well, if Taylor feels like she's getting taken advantage of, we're getting taken advantage of. We love her.

Drake doesn't do that. But I do think he's having his Taylor moment because that moment is going to require not only lawsuits. If he's going to go at UMG, he's going to need for his fan base, his audience, to rally around him. Because here's a reason why. And I'm going to give a bigger story. The current music industry is based on Drake and what he did. And I do have one critique. critique I'll levy against Drake.

For as great as we do think, and I do think Drake's a good business, man. I never think, I never thought Drake took the chances he needed to, to prepare for moments like this. I'll explain. Brother, let's get back to 2015, 2016. Yeah, I remember when Drake sold a million first week? You remember reviews?

I remember what, yeah, I remember slightly before that. If you were reading this is too late, yeah, I remember going into more life. You know, obviously then we get to Scorpion. let me tell you one thing that Drake did that if Drake foresaw today ever happening, those conversations would have went differently.

I'm going to tell you why. When Drake sat and took a $20 million deal from Apple Music to release his album one week before, he rapped about it. I forgot what song. I think was it charged up? Drake 20 million Apple Music He wrapped about on something

Right And I think it came with the one week exclusive That he did a radio show Whatever it was Right Yeah oh Apple music pays Drake 20 million For the new album Now

What we're gonna have to realize And this is as great Listen, it's my favorite rapper But I understand why I'm also the biggest and the best when the company's me this shit because I'm going to have to give it up how I've got to give it up. Here's a reality of it, right? So it says

so a report from his daily double back in the day said that Apple Music gave Drake 20 million to create views and give it to them for a week. Right? A week.

Now, it was exclusive to them. Let me explain how that was short-sighted. and that probably helped put Drake in the position he was. Remember I told you why recently I said, I'm not interested in no more too much in deals because I've seen how all this shit goes.

When these labels are offering you a big bag, it's because they're getting a big return. I'll give you two examples. I even give you an example I'm a part of. Partly I understand why Joe Button was whaling out at Spotify, but that's not the way to go if you ask me. You got negotiated in there. when he was like they gave me,

who knows whatever money they gave him, Spotify initially. But he felt like he was underpaid and they wouldn't pay him what they needed to for the subsequent contract that he probably requested

or they were negotiated. I don't know if they did. I knew when it came to even me with Spotify, right? By the way, everything also is, it bores true later. You know, I always said that my biggest success with Spotify,

I took my first year's paycheck. I threw it all into Spotify stock. I took what they paid me. I bought all Spotify stock. The stock at the time was like 200-something. During the pandemic, it fell to like 110, 115. That stock now is worth $450. So if you think about it, if I put, say they paid me a million, right?

Let's say they paid me that. If I put a million in and I never sold, which by the way, I did sell. that million three years ago, if I waited four years ago, four years after, till now, it would be worth four million. So it was like they paid me $4 million. So whatever you think they paid me the first year, times it by four, right? That's what have been the real gain of this. I'm going to tell you why I'm telling you that information.

Because what Drake is now doing, I think, is going to be a little bit, it's going to fall slightly short and not and he's going to maybe try to do what a lot of people do in terms of hey i helped build this because here's the thing when drake got 20 million from apple music apple music and spotify were in a war to the death on who could gain more subscribers to their streaming platform for music they were doing anything and they realized the quickest way to get more people to subscribe to Apple Music, which was $10 a month, was to show that certain artists, especially the biggest artists, were only going to drop their music on their platform.

And maybe not for the whole time, but exclusively. So I'm pretty sure when Drake took that $20 million, he said, damn, it's $20,000. This is free cash. It's perfect. But what that did is when they did those deals with Drake and the weekend, that set up the entire industry i i just give me one second i i just want to google this and show you so this was views right uh what uh so views is 2016 right 2016 let's look at this

apple music subscribers 2016 i just want to show you something so in 2016 right in 2016 um They touted that, I was going to show you this, right? Them and Apple, they were trying to compete with Apple, right? Not Apple, I mean I'm Spotify. In 2016, you're going to see that they basically said they had around like 20 to 30 million. I know it says December since, but they never put out the real numbers. It was basically between 20 to 30 million paying subscribers, right? They were gaining ground on Spotify by paying people like Drake 20 million.

Spotify said it had 40 million. So let's just say Spotify had 40 Apple Music at 30 Let me show you something now Spotify Um Spotify paying subscribers 2023 because Drake even points it at in the contract Well really it's actually way more than this but whatever okay 236 million

Now this is a very important part And this is what I was trying to say A lot of what Drake is saying now, it would be contextually defined differently if back then, when Drake got the 20 million, he said, nah, I don't want the 20 million. Since y'all are using me to build, remember, remember, at this time, Spotify has 40 million. So 40 times, 40 times 4 would be 160, 40 times 5 will be 200, 40 times 6. So they've increased 6x in pain subs, right? Spotify. I know he did deal with Apple, but we're just,

we're looking at the market. The best thing for Drake to do, remember I told you about a Spotify thing? What they were offering me and how the stock price increased 4X? If Drake had somehow, with the most leverage ever, they needed Drake, they needed weekend, they needed these people. If Drake had sat down, brought in UMG, Broad and Spotify or Apple and said,

hey, listen, we don't have to get down with this. We could just use our leverage with our record labels and say, we're going to drop music in a different way. Since you guys are trying to build streaming, and yes, I'm saying this unequivocally, and this is why I personally feel Drake feels away. Drake built the entire industry of streaming for these bigger conglomerates. here's the problem

all he did was take the money and he never took the thing that could possibly have you with some control even if Drake says hey listen fuck the money

just give me obviously Apple wouldn't give him shit because you know Apple music is not gonna but maybe Spotify be like hey listen just give me a percentage just like how you negotiate with UMG well I'm actually about a fourth of what you

UMG's bringing in. I'll do a deal with you directly. But I want some piece and some parts of what's going on here. And that's the problem. I'm really telling that's the problem. So Drake got the jumbo jet. He got a $100 million mesh. He got all the money. But that only matters as as long as he's the number one artist that could move the needle. The moment they think you can't move the needle, you don't matter no more. This is why you should have incentivized when you could move the needle to get some real skin in the game. And it's not money. It's power and control.

The point is Drake, while he's gotten, I believe the only artist has gotten a billion dollars off music, didn't utilize his spot in building streaming, in building all these things that he was, I mean, by far number one. He didn't utilize that to have the control. that later on, which he was eventually going to get to a point where they say, maybe we don't need him as much as we used to. But if you had some power and control, you'd be like, hold on, nigger.

Hold on. It's exactly the Michael Jackson Sony play. Drake never did it. Drake took all the cash. He got jumbo jets, buys up everybody's, jewelry, fucks every hole, fucks every nigga bitch, has money just coming out

the ass, which is good. We owe our money. But what happens is sometimes the industry, and let's go back to Diageo with Diddy before all this happened. Let's go back to, even though that was a much more amical situation,

Bacardi with Jay-Z. It's okay. These companies are cool with paying you a billion dollars. But when they think that you can't help their bottom line or you're not the pendulum switcher no more. They tell you, all right, kick rocks with your billion dollars. Do you get what I'm saying? So when Drake is filed a lawsuit now,

and I'm saying he's having this Taylor Swift moment, you know why all these companies bowed to Taylor? They know if Taylor says right now, I promise you, if Taylor says right now, I don't want my I feel like Universal is robbing me This stream is Yo, yo she had them revaluate

The price of a stream You know she did that right Taylor Swift Stream and payout She made that a thing Hold on She disagreed with it And then basically

Well she's going crazy now with it But um Okay You're gonna see a bunch of Drake stuff But look Here's the thing, and this woman's saying to Taylor Swift moment. Taylor in her time at the top where the labels know, you can't piss this woman off.

You can't say fuck her. She used her power. You could call it Karen all you want. She used it then. Hey, I don't like this. This looks like it's taking advantage of us. Change it now. And the label always, the label, no one.

fight they can fight they're like yeah we don't want taylor telling her whole fan base to do some other shit all hold on hold on taylor we're gonna make it right let me tell you what now is told me about what the label's saying about drake they're looking at drake eating a carrot like nigger you can't do to us what taylor did first of all yeah you got a huge fan base but what you would really need is culture the nigger kendra got it right now So you can't use that against us. Oh, your own music? Well, we could try to dampen that a little bit,

but you're not the hottest you've ever been. Universal's looking at Drake to say, nigger, we have the leverage now, buddy. It's in our hands. They don't have it with Taylor. They haven't had it for a long time with Taylor. And Taylor bitches every single time they try to play her. Drake has never said nothing.

Why? Because he's always taking the money. He gets the hordes of cash. All right. Yo, we're going to build streaming off of your back, Drake. Drake's like, how much money you're going to give me? You get 20 here, 20 million here. You get this million here.

You get this here over here. All right, fuck it. Now when they built it to the point, they're like, yeah, bro, it's like 10 years later. We kind of don't need you no more. And I don't think you that lit no more And also you got some shit going on with your label She's looking crazy, right?

That's my assessment, honestly. You know, again, Drake's a billionaire. He's a billionaire. But we probably do have to say Did Drake not speak up? If Drake said, if Drake, if Drake coughed at UMG in 2016, I promise you.

If Drake coughed at them, they'd be sucking his dick. 2016. You know why? They needed him. They needed him so much. 2016. 2024? Eh, he does drive the market, the cent third.

But given a couple things, I think we'd be eyed. Somebody said, am I, Swifty? No, I understand business. Only a few people get in a place in a position where, you know, when you're that person, they'll always pay you. But you also have to think about sometimes what's going to happen when I'm not that guy or they think that I'm expendable or they think I'm not as potent as I once was. And what we're seeing by UMG and I think he probably starts seeing it in the building. Oh yeah, I just disrespecting me now.

I built this. Drake, listen, this is a reason why, you know, until like the bad bunnies came around and the motherfucking Taylor Swift, like really, you know, because hip hop was one of the first consumed. Remember hip hop? When streaming kind of really became a thing, hip hop artists broke streaming records every fucking time they dropped. Hip hop was pushing streaming. Because you got to remember, a lot of piracy. Like, I keep telling you out with Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift now, she sells $3 million.

she's not doing three million in streams hip hop audience stop buying they stop purchasing oh once they found lime wire and shit like a kazah oh hell no we're done with this shit we ain't buy your shit ever again

a reasonable thing that they were down to do was stream the reason why I told you this about Taylor you know why Taylor Swift sells 3 million records because she could turn in the album six months before and the leak isn't going to fuck up the whole

album that she got to make a new album. Let Drake turn in his album six months before. Nigger, that show would be leaked getting played every single place. He'll have to make five different albums after that. Because hip-hop consumes music differently. So when Taylor drops, she gets to, her audience, like she's always been in the business of, y'all got to buy my physical, right? Y'all got to buy my vinals, my CDs.

The merch is going to come with that. That's why she sells three million. You're right? Like, if I'm supposed to be honest, Taylor Swift's about roughly about twice as popular as Drake. So Drake's about like 60% Taylor's 100. Right? But if you look at the sales,

Drake's last album did 400, Taylor did $3 million. Like, that's six times as popular. If Taylor's six times as popular, don't. She's barely twice as pop. She's popular, more popular. But she's about twice as popular, just by the numbers.

But she's dealing with a different audience that will purchase shit. Drake is within hip hop. So what I'm really trying to tell you is that Drake and his counterparts built streaming for the industry. Because they never relied on Taylor Swift for streaming because Taylor was always still selling. They relied on niggins like Drake. When people stop buying, they would just stream Drake all day. Drake is still like the high streaming person, point blank, period.

You know what I'm saying? Drake is the number one. streaming artists, period. He built, he was the, ironically, he's the Joe Button and the Joe Rogan in terms of Spotify for his podcast. The point is that he never took the leverage for making shit shake and ultimately was always going to get to a point where they felt like you are no longer the person that we feel we have to just bow and acquiesce to.

And I could imagine, I think Drake has probably gotten to a point in the conversation with Universal that they probably offered him something disrespectful, in my opinion. He got 400 last time. Let's say he wants six. They probably told him, yeah,

I'm a nigga. You're going to go get 350, buddy. That's what it is. He's like, huh? And I do believe this lawsuit's one of them. We're not lawsuit. Let's call what it is a petition. So I do have the petition here,

the academy. blog if you guys want to see it in whole here is the second lawsuit so this is a defamation lawsuit it was filed in Texas and um it was filed in bexer county if you don't know what bexer counties bexer county texas is actually um where i heart media so this second defamation lawsuit was was mainly

based around i heart media that's why they filed it in the county iR media is based in which is San Antonio, Texas, which is Bexher County, Texas. So he's suing IHeartMedia or he's planning to sue IHeartMedia and UMG. And we're going to read through this in a second. All right, chat. Everybody here, good. Happy Thanksgiving.

Let me see how we looking. Give me one second. We're going to read through this. Somebody said, no, the weekend is the highest. No, no, no. We're talking about from the inception of streaming. The inception. So I'm talking about completely.

The inception of streaming. What I'm trying to say is that when the industry went through this period where they said we have to convince the audience to now start streaming music, they utilized Drake to build that market. Remember, it was 20 million for Apple Music and like 30 million at least initially for Spotify. They built that 10x. So you have Spotify, which with 250 million paying subscribers. You have Apple Music that supposedly has at least over 150 or maybe close to 200. They built their, they built that entity into 10X. So imagine, again, I know we're talking about, like, put it like this, right?

All right. Let me show you something interesting, right? Spotify Payout. Spotify Payout. 2016 UMG I want to we'll be able to see it

okay right so in 2016 Spotify paid out this right which by the way again this is this is a year

that Drake really doubles down so actually let's go 2015 I want to do 2015 because 2016 we see a massive situation that was going crazy hold on on Spotify okay

I mean we could figure it out about a math here they said all right um it's 58% more in 20 i'll you one second i'm just sure it's the math real quick sure it's the math all right here we go i'm just show you that right right so uh in 2016 UMG earned um oh make sure you can see everything hold on sorry earned um 137 million per month right okay Cool. So 137, here we go, 137, we're dealing millions right here, times 12, is $1.6 billion, okay? $1.6 billion. Now, if they said this was 58% more, right?

If this was 58% more means, or 58, yeah, 58% more than 2015, if we divide this by 1.58, this is math, people, you may even understand it. They basically earned $1 million, right? $1.04 million, so $1 million in streaming in 2015, right? So that's what Universal was getting, right? Cool. Remember I told you in 2016, they started a push to do, not necessarily because Apple Music was doing that too, right? And by the way, this is kind of unfair to say because Apple paid for most of the exclusives, not Spotify.

Spotify was, you know, if you, if you follow business, you'll realize because Apple was the, they had the biggest market share, they spent less money because the number two Apple with more money, they were spending more to try to catch up to Spotify. Spotify was just gaining, right? So I'm hoping you guys are following a bit, but here's the thing. So Spotify, which was bigger than Apple, paid out a million dollars, which means at that time, if we're just going on market share at that time, right? And this is going to be a little bit complicated. Apple Music Market Share 2015, right? So their market share was what? They had only 13.

Oh, no. Oh, even now they only have 13% later. Yeah, basically they couldn't compete. So Apple Music was late to the game. They couldn't fucking compete, right? So just to, you know, just to be very fair and clear, if Spotify paid out a billion dollars in 2015, Apple Music probably paid out, I don't know,

we're going to make it up, right? Less than half. So let's just say $400 million. So Spotify paid out $1 billion. Apple music probably paid out $400 million. They give Drake 20 million. And the next year, their revenue increases. Everybody's revenue increases, but then Spotify revenue increases 58%.

By the reason I'm not using Apple's numbers, they don't share it. Apple music, but they've always been like slightly lesser than Spotify. So if Spotify goes up 58 and they didn't spend nothing, it's based on all Apple music is spending, right? It's very reasonable to say Apple Music went up at least 58, probably like 75 because they're spending the money. Spotify is not. So here's the point. So we're saying $1 billion from Apple, no, from Spotify in 2015, which means probably around 400 million from Apple. Let's say they jump 75% right the next year because of what they spent.

They gave Drake $20 million. And then they probably then made a billion. You get what I'm saying so they made 600 million more more more more more more dollars right as the years go by and they used and tried to work with the weekend Drake and all these other guys to really spark the stream and shit they probably paid out a hundred to a hundred and fifty million dollars in paying the artist directly but how much more money did they make so remember that's 20 20 20 2015 let's go to Let me go back one second.

Spotify payout 2023. Okay, so first of all, they paid out $9 billion. So Spotify paid out $9 billion last year. And to Universal, they paid out $2.28 billion. Okay? So keep in mind, Spotify has not done anything. They have not invested a dime in exclusives or whatever that Apple did. and their revenue in 10 years has more than doubled.

It's almost going up like, you know, like two and a half, right? It's at $2.28 billion, which could only tell me that if, that the revenue similarly for Apple Music has probably gone up, probably is going to be $1.5 billion, maybe $1.7. here's the point what I'm trying to tell you if your revenue used to be if your revenue used to be

400 million for the year and now it's 1.7 billion 10 years later I hope you out I feel like I'm I know I'm understanding but I wonder if I'm confusing y'all so Apple music and its investments

like giving these artists a little 20 million which 20 million is a lot of money but they've increased the market where they could pay out right so um apple music goes from paying out 400 million to 1.7 billion which is the difference is 1.3 billion so even if they spent 100 million dollars or 150 million dollars doing it they essentially still gained 1.2 billion of that investment. That's the point I'm trying to tell you all. So when Drake had a lot of that leverage,

if he had said, yo, not that I'm, and by the way, shape, a form saying Apple music was just, oh, no, Drake,

we're going to give you, like, percentage. I'm not saying that, because these companies probably tell Drake kick rocks, right? But still, if he could have figured out a way

to maybe forego some of the cash, but to keep the, but to keep the control and power that comes with building the infrastructure. His conversations today would be very different with those same infrastructures, if you get what I mean.

I'll give you another scenario, different industry, but Howard Stern, when he was the biggest person on radio, when he went to, serious, right? They gave him a big deal, 100 million or whatever,

but apparently he did get some ownership of the company, which means that these days, do anybody talk about Howard Stern? I don't even know what he does. I don't even know what he does. I don't even know what he does. I don't even know what he does.

But he has some significant stake with Sirius that they could never treat him like he's a peon. They could never just be like, well, you, Howard, it's saying 10, 15 years ago, fuck you, kick rocks, nigger. We're going to go get the next guy. They can't ever do that. They got to still put respect on his name, right? And I'm pretty sure that $100 million he took back then. They probably would have gave him a little bit more if he didn't have some type of innate control on that situation. And I think that, I hope you all get what I'm saying.

That's the problem with this Drake shit right now. Because Drake, again, I don't think nobody but Taylor could move people that the labels would care. So the labels are looking at Drake to say, yeah, you got a big audience, but, you know, we've done a lot to help create you. It might take a while, but we could create another you. And you don't have the power and control to do or tell your fans or to affect the market. that we're hurting. So why the fuck are we going to pay you? Do I get that?

Okay, cool. All right. Anyway, let's read this defamation lawsuit. So again, you guys can go to the academy. That blog and go see the whole thing. And essentially what this is, this is a, you know,

the first one that was filed in New York court was on a frozen moments, but this one is filed directly from him. It actually says Aubrey Drake Graham. This is the petition number, really the, the, the docket number and um it's filed in the two uh 225th district court of texas which is bexer county now here's the thing it's requesting depositions of iHeart media and umg recordings

and this is how it starts out says petitioner a abridg graham is requesting a order authorizing under texas rule blah blah uh presuit depositions of the corporate representatives of i heart immediate. Now, remember, the first lawsuit was saying that Spotify altered numbers to do it. This lawsuit's a little bit different, but it's kind of, it's kind of crazier than the first. I'm going to tell you why. He's suing the radio company saying that maybe, not maybe, he's alleging that his label, UMG, colluded with them and did possibly some illegal things, which Paola is illegal, on radio stations that are using FCC airwaves. So he's basically accusing his record label of a crime.

The problem with that, and we're going to get to it later, and we don't know if this is true. But let's say if UMG has ever done any of the similar things for Drake, it looks crazy. So you accusing UMG of paying radio stations, if they've ever paid a radio station for your song, you look crazy now, right? And now you also, you know,

for me in the media and everybody else, we should love these lawsuits because we're going to figure out the real behind an artist getting popping. We're going to even figure out the real behind Drake getting popping because if UMG has to respond and if everything comes out publicly, they're going to have to disclose

what did they do for not like us, but in their defense, you know what they're going to say? we've done this for everything that's popular over here, including Drake. So that's going to be big and important. We'll see, though. So anyway, so the UMG, which includes Interscope Records,

which is owned by UMJ. Cool. So let's go through some factual background stuff. It says, Respondent UMG is one of the handful of companies that dominate the multi-billion music industry. When it comes to the release of new music by the most prominent artists, UMG is meticulous and its planning and execution of the music. It releases, promotes,

and backs with considerable. considerable financial resources. So that is not true just because of the amount of money on the line for UMG and the shareholders, but because UMG executives are eligible to receive incentive bonuses based on the revenue generated from the respective divisions. Now, what he's speaking to here is what I've also heard. And let me give another interesting take, right? And I'm sorry, I know y'all will just read through this like a bot, but this is why you

tune into me, I would hope. So, chat, I'm speaking to some people at Universal, and they're like, yeah, you know, we even read through some of the lawsuits. Some of the shit got some sense, but some of it's a lot of bullshit. No, won't say who. But there's some people who feel like, Drake's wild. He's losing it. Like, damn, they're almost boarding on delusionality according to them. But that's how they're framing it.

And I questioned, I said, how? Like, come on, no. I'm a little bit cynical, but it makes sense to me a bit. yo, I'm negotiating for a deal that's really big. Maybe $600 million. Like, y'all don't want to pay $600 million. Y'all want a discount. I'm not giving discounts.

I just banged out another, banged out the last deal that was $400. Fuck that. Let's get to the, give me the money. Show me the money. Now, the conversation that I had was like, hey, listen, act. If you think we would intentionally sabotage, Drake to build another artist.

Number one, that's crazy. But let's say sabotage Drake for the purposes of some not trying to give him whatever he wants. Let's explain how UMG works. Okay? And his allegations of executives are going to receive incentive bonuses is true, which means if you have an artist that that artist performs well that year, the executives are going to get bonus. bonuses. That's how their salaries work.

So they tell me, they say, this actually disproves what Drake is trying to make us his point. Because here's the reality, and let's break down UMG. Y'all ready? This is where everybody getting their pen out. And by the way, all the other YouTubers who basically have no idea how this thing works, just copy me or whatever. Y'all could break you out, get y'all pin out too. So UMG, let's go to Universal Music Group.

Universal Music Group Org chart. Let's look at the org chart. This is going to be a... Can we find it? Okay. Well, it shows Lucian at the top, but we really want the labels.

Okay. That perfect. This is exactly what I wanted. All right. So you see Big Sir Lucian at the top. Okay? So this is going to be the guy. Lucian Grange.

He's at the top, right? So you see corporate management and then major business unit and territory leadership. Okay. You're going to see a bunch of other people who fall beneath Lucian here. And you're going to see the vice president, the controller, or, you know, chairman and CEO of a UMG pub.

So there's Universal Music Publishing Group, or UMPG, actually. You're going to see General Counsel. So that's all their lawyers. So anytime you sue UMG, this is person that's going to, they're an executive. They handle business affairs. They're going to make sure that, yeah, I don't get no money from this company, right? The vice president right here, hold on, I'll make sure you can see my mouth.

Vice president right here is the chief people and inclusion officer, which, I don't know, maybe that's some new shit, but okay. EVP, so this is the executive vice president of UMG. Okay, bet, bet, bet, bet. We see a chairman and da-da-da, we're going to see a bunch of, of people that that this is you know whatever whatever now what is going to be very interesting as we go down this org chart okay you know um we're gonna stick to because on the left side this is corporate management they don't deal with artists they deal with mostly you know more mechanical things are you suing is

it like what about the contracts what about you know you're gonna see chief digital officers they're gonna deal with the platforms they're working on financial office they're just dealing money they're not dealing with artists so we're gonna we're gonna move half the chart away okay now the other part of the chart we're gonna care about is this other part we just read which is the major business unit and territory leadership right this is where they underneath all this you're gonna see all the labels right so let's go to it we're gonna we read the first line nothing too crazy that we need to see there but let's keep going

right um market development all right whatever Now we're starting to see some interest in people. John Japnik. Okay? I want everybody, again, these are people you'll never hear their names unless you're watching my stream. Okay, but we're going to get on to this shit. John Janick is the CEO and the chairman of Interscope Geffen. Geffen and Interscope combined at a time.

Geffen used to be a separate label, but they all combined. And Interscope used to be ran by Jimmy Iveen, who left for Apple with Dr. Dre when they did the beats thing. They run Interscope. Now, Kendrick Lamar is actually off of Interscope. He's being distributed through Interscope. The whole TDE is through Interscope. Let me explain to you what UMG is, right? And this is where I might have to get out my handy-dandy notebook.

Let's get to a... I like breaking the shit down in a way that... Actually, I'm opening Microsoft paint. Because this should be seeming very hard to explain, but it's really not. So I'm going to just explain it. What the fuck? All right, here we go. All right.

So, and this was kind of explained to me. All right. So we have UMG. UMG. Let me get my thingy, right. Let's go 20 font. Yeah. Okay.

We got UMG. All right. I'll erase. We got UMG, right? Now, UMG is a big label. As I said, there's so many parts. There's so many people. But we're going to only think about music.

Beneath UMG when it comes to, when it comes to music that we care for, right? We're not talking about country. We're talking about hip-hop mostly and sometimes that go into pop. The two big labels that are really serving

and doing everything are going to be, and from what I'm, this is the best explanation. I'm trying to give you lamest terms. It's broken down east and west coast people, right? So we got on the East Coast, when it comes to rap and more cultural music, some pop stuff,

you're going to get a label called. Let's start with West Coast. West Coast, you're going to get two labels. Interscope Geffen, right? And also Capital. Okay. So, get me a second. So Interscope, Geffen, Capital.

They're the big dogs, okay? On the East Coast, so that's West Coast. West Coast, Interscope Geffen. Remember, think about West Coast, aftermath. Think about Kendrick. Think about

everything that is, you know, they get a lot of the West Coast stuff, right? They're more headquartered and based in L.A. West Coast. Capital, same thing too, right? On the East Coast,

it's not coast, really. It's just, let's just say East and West. You're going to get Republic. Who's there? Drakey from Canada, but still East. you're going to get the post Malones where the fuck is Post Malones? I don't even know.

Post Malones, the weekend. Like everything's going to fall there. So really, these are the two, the big labels that are bringing in a lot for UMG. Right. Now, this is the explanation I got to say, what Drake is a legend don't make sense. So I'm trying to explain to y'all.

So if UMG, they're getting, their big labels are Interscope and Geffen and Capital for the West, and Republic for the East, let's get back to this. And I know I'm, I feel like I'm a teacher right now. So when we get back to this org chart,

you're going to see John Janick. He's a CEO for Interscope and Geffen. Okay? You see some other people here. By the way, you see Michelle. And by the way, she replaced, what's my man? Oh, my God, my guy who was leading.

He was leading for years, capital. So you see CEO of Geffin. Geffen, right? CEO of Geffen, nobody cares about the UK. CEO of Geffen, CEO of Capital, just like I said, those are the West, right? This is this marketing right here.

You know, sleuttle to all my marketing people. Shout to my boy, man, I love, I love marketing. Okay. Then, let's keep going down another line. The other line, sorry, the other line is going to have, is right here. So then we get, that's Latin America, we'll put that to the side.

Then we get Republic records. Avery Lipman and Monty Lipman. Okay? They're the founder and CEO of Republic Records. Right? Remember, Republic Records artists. This is what they got. They got all these people

Taylor Swift Mickey Menard's Weekend post Malone Drake Ariana Grande Liam Liam Payne Okay Now let me tell you why this org chart is very important

Let me make it a little bit smaller Right Make it a little bit smaller For you I to understand You see this top guy right here Lucian Grange Big boss Everybody's below

Let's do another Google how old is Lucian Grange Lucian Grange is 64 years old now he does have a son that's in his 20s I think about 30 now but he went over to Warner and he's trying to he's running Atlantic and he's trying to do all that right now

but eventually he is going to step down and who will take his place well let me tell you who's going to who's up to take his place Monty Lipman the guy who runs the most lit label in the east Republic with Drake and them or John Janick who runs Interscope Geffen that got all the other lit and by the way interscope you know I know you might know that for Kendrick and so but let me show you some people who interscope got like interscope get fin artists there's a lot of pop shit that comes through there too oh all these fall underneath it right so so this is all interscope Geffen aftermath dark room.

Dreamville. LVRN. So this is Summer Walker and all of them, you know. Shady records. Let's see if we just find the artist. We just want to see the artists. Come on. Show the artists.

Okay. So these are like the sublabels type. Let me just look at. Interscope artists. Interscope artists. Okay. I don't know if this is going to be current. Because I thought they had like a,

obviously Kendrick, but I just want to show, Like, I think is, like, who's, which other? No, she's off island. Yeah, she's off island. My dad. Yo, with, I can't easily find, like, a whole list of what interscope and Geffen has. But they got a bunch of people, okay? And it also extends beyond, you know, obviously, um, so if we're looking aftermath,

some of these are antiquated, but like Eminem, Kendrick, 50 came through there. I'm trying to look for current ones. Of course, Cole, Summer Walker, but I wanted to bring up some pop artists as well because Republic has a lot of pop artists. You know what I'm saying? Like Ariana and shit like that. Anyway, here's the point I'm trying to make to y'all.

And this is how it was explained to me. They said, this guy's job, who is 64, if his son don't somehow knock it out to park in Atlantic, which is Elliot Grange, the guy who signed 6-9 and I'm trippy. If you don't knock that out of the park with Atlantic or this new Atlantic, which they fired everybody, their clearing house,

they're making a whole new regime over there, if he doesn't knock that out of the park that eventually he could succeed his dad, and even then, they might not want to do that because it's a whole thing, it's like I'm trying to catch out love to like just music businesses behind the scene stuff. Even then, there's a conversation

that Lucian Graham, might not succeed, might not do some, you know, LeBron, Brony James shit by having his son, by only quitting when his son is ready to rule because his son is about to start a campaign over at Warner. I remember UMG and Warner, they're on the same level. And apparently, you know, it's more incentivized that maybe they move company. That's a whole different discussion. Here's the point.

John Janick and Monty Lipman, they are competitors of who is bringing in the most revenue for Universal. Monty is constantly saying, well, we got Taylor Swift, we can drop in this year, we're bringing the most money, and then John Janick is saying, well, we got this person, this person, this person. What it was explained to me is that if these two people right here, John Janick and Monty Lipman, are in competition for this, job.

Monty Lipman is the person that Drake's music falls underneath. Why would he sabotage his artist to allow John Janick's artist, Kendrick, to look good and gain even way more revenue, but why would he cut his, why would he get less revenue for his label to allow his competitor, John Janick? I know they're within the same system, but they're competing for this job. why would he sabotage Drake or agree to sabotage Drake if we're saying this is on a universal level? Why would he agree to sabotage Drake

that they could big up another artist of the person he's competing with for this job? That means he just looks bad. Yo, nigga, you're trash. You're letting Drake, you've sacrificed one of your artists to make your competitor look better for the eventual job of this. That's what I'm told by the people

without working the label structure. Okay? And they're saying that doesn't make no sense. Monty Lipman would never agree to that. He would never, you know, like he's a fierce competitor. He's not going to. And again, I know we have a, we have some type of relationship with Drake in terms of we love his music.

But they're looking at these people as commodities, right? Like, why the fuck would they be like, oh, let's sacrifice one of our biggest commodities to help you get one of your commodities lit. that you could help you could get that job of what I want. So that's what's being explained to me. That's like house of cards for labels and how everything is going there. We'll see because again,

this guy is competing with this guy for this guy's job, but then this guy's son basically is like Canaan Abel or whatever one that left the village, went over to the ops, or not ops, but corporate ops, Warner to run their shit so he might come back to take his dad's job or they might just realize that Warner's the new wave where the Grange brand goes along with and they might get some type of more perceived power because here's the thing lucian grange like you ever heard about his salary look at this lucian grain salary for 2023

128 million it took drake drake drake bragging about all that shit it's took Drake three years to complete his deal and it's still not done. And Drake said he got four hundred million dollars. Look what this guy is getting by never talking to us. You get what I'm saying? So like, you know, and even then, here's a point. They're saying that him and his family might, you know, they're going to see how the Warner shit works because this $128 million might be nothing

compared to he's only CEO of Universal. Lucian doesn't own Universal Warner is owned by the Blavavavavna I'm saying this wrong Who owns Warner Music Girl

It's Russian or something like that Blavadna I can't even say it I can't even say it I can't even say it Oh my God Oh Len Blavaknik.

I couldn't even say it. Len Blavaknik. Yeah, Blavaknik. Right. Okay. And what happens is, I'm giving y'all like mad like extra music, um,

um, insider shit that you should probably not know just as a fan. So the billionaire, this guy, so Universal is owned by a bunch of conglomerates. One of them includes 10 cents, which is a Chinese company. Who owns UMG?

If you never knew this, I'll tell you. Here are there. big shareholders, right? You're going to see the Chinese company 10 cent. Yeah, 10 cent. Tencent acquired 10 percent, hilarious, of Universal Music Group for $3 billion. So really, that Universal Music Group is actually valued at $30 billion. If they acquired 10% for $3 billion, actually $3 billion euros or pounds, I guess. And this is a Chinese company, 10 cent, right? So it's owned by a bunch of whatever people.

You know what I mean? It's a bunch of companies. Let me see if we could find how it's allocated. Yeah, I know for some people who are, these are for the thinkers right here. And I know people who watch my stream might be like, Ac, you're confusing us. This, watch my stream if you want to think, okay?

And by the way, they got another 10% too. So Tencent actually owns 20% now. So the shareholders for UMG are this, the big shareholders. Tencent owns 20%. This other company, we can look into them, owns 28%. That's 48. And then Perishin holding squares holds 10%.

So that's 48, 58% is owned by these companies. And then the rest are like shareholders. You get what I'm saying? So really, you know, what I'm trying to say with the Lucian thing is that Universal is very different than Warner Music Group shareholders. what you realize here we go okay so

it's it's it's so it's industry is controlled by um land blah blah

I'm trying to figure out who owns what percentage of it who owns it today here we go okay so here we go and this is going to make sense I'm gonna trust me

I know there's a lot of I'm gonna make it make sense for y'all okay Here we go, chat. So Warner Music Group, this is anything that's under Atlantic, right? Everything on the Atlantic. By the way, you're going to see this name. Len Blavaknik, this is his, I believe, brother,

and then he has a son, which is Val. Val's name is going to come up pretty soon by me. So Len personally owns 73%. Right? So you have one billionaire, one guy who owns Warner. Okay? Very different than UMG that's owned by a bunch of companies. Okay?

So this is why I think the Lucian move is happening because you're only, yeah, you're getting paid $130 million a year, but you're only going to be the CEO, right? And you got to, you know, you could kind of fix the, like fix the rubric that your son or maybe your son brother or your son's son always rule and you keep everybody out. But you don't own the company. Like Lucian doesn't own control and stock of UMG. When it comes to Warner, which has Atlantic, Len has 73%. Okay? All right. Let me then bring that back down a little bit.

Okay. So he owns 73% of that. And then what happens when it comes to this guy, Len, and you could Google these guys, by the way, right? Len is so rich. Right, Len Blavaknik is so rich. Warner music ain't even his main thing. So you know what he does?

And this is what every great billionaire does. He lets his son rock out with it. His son name is Val Blavutnik. I had met with him before. So this kid right here, his father owns the entire Warner music group. Right? His father got mad at other things.

So this guy here gets to, he gets to now do, you know, do his thing because you know everybody's trying to also you know you're the father of a billionaire but you're trying to make your own thing you guys might not know him but he used to be a manager valvovoknik he used to see see obviously his dad allowed him to get elected to the whirner he's on the board let's look at this manages he was to manage people let me see val he was managing i think oozy at a point was it oozy like he's tapped in with a new people was it uzi who. I forgot what

artists. He used to manage a few artists. I forgot. You used to manage some of these artists that we cover. I don't know exactly what the name is. Like which particular artists. What was explained to me is this, right?

Half of the reason, while you know, you'll hear like Joe Button and some other people like mention these people like Julie Greenwald. She used to be an executive at Atlantic. Right? She was running Atlantic. She got, they let her go, right? They got rid of her.

What's the guy named? Not Lier. Lear is at YouTube. Kevin Liles. What's the other guy named Joe always name dropped his thing until I met that thing at one. One time of the Drake concert. What that nigga named? Kaiser.

All these like executives, they fired all them. I think he's kick rocks. Number one, you're old. Number one, respectfully. Number two, apparently, that nigga never got along with no of these people. You know what I mean? Like, because apparently, and this is like super like, this is like some house of car shit, I swear. This is what was told to me.

They said Julie Lowe and Julia, I know you got mad power and mad millions. Don't hurt me. They said that she never respected the son of the niggal who owned her label, which is this young kid. And anytime he would suggest some shit, she was shit on it. Like, you know what I mean? Like your father owns the shit. So when basically the father allows the son to run the show. of course he gets rid of her

Get out of here Like yo it's my dad's company Get the fuck out of here You know I mean So that's part of like All of the shit that's happening Over at like Warner Like in Atlantic

So he got rid of her Right He brings in like pretty much people That ain't You know The industry rigumorole Was usually you go from one job To one job

It's like musical chairs But now you got The kid who is the billionaire's son Who the billionaire Don't care to manage Warner Len. So he's like, Val, you're my son, you're grown. You could do what you want.

He's like, we're dad? Say less. He's over here firing, doing whatever he wants. He gets, he brings in another young nigger, which is Lucian Grain's son, Elliot Grange. Yeah, there are shambles over there. He brings in him. He's like, yo, you're running this shit now, right? Because they're cool, right?

All of the old people that used to. Rocket Atlantic and everything, all fired. They're all out of there. And yeah, and I don't even know I went down as, well, actually, I do know I went down as tangent. For you ought to understand, like, the musical chairs of decisions being made. Because we're constantly talking about shit. Like, we're constantly talking about shit.

And y'all, y'all are confused. Like, for example, I'm going to give you, this is a story I heard, right? One of the reasons why Shorty would, like, like, shorthy lost her job. allegedly or like it was kind of I don't know if she lost pressure to leave here here's what I heard they said this dude remember his dad owns the whole label his dad owns everything Warner when he was trying to you know he's trying to get into the music business he starts managing people he listens to sound cloud rap he's a young nigga this is a young white billionaire dude he listens to sound cloud rappers he listens to the codex the oozees the cardi

okay he starts managing these artists but you got to remember why would you just sign to some random white dude so he's trying to flex his power a little bit apparently some of these I forgot the name of the artist I'm pretty sure if I go on his Instagram I'll probably see him picture with them I'll do it now I'm pretty sure if you yeah

is this is yeah yep that's him right there that boy all right he's private but he was the man artist, okay? From what I heard, so he convinces a few artists to say, yo, my dad is this, yo, listen, let me manage you, I'll get you to blah, blah, blah, blah. Then he brings some of these artists and he's trying to get them assigned to Atlantic, right? So when he brings them to Atlantic, remember his dad owns the whole thing, but at that point his dad didn't give him, like, that

control that he would need. The executives over there, including, including Julie, would like he basically was trying to sweeten the pot because he wanted these artists to fuck with him right remember like you don't want to be his net pole baby you're like you want him to sign to you the center it's like yo okay now i'm gonna get you a good deal at atlantic so he's bringing these people that he's managing to get a good deal at the label that's owned by the label his father owns and apparently there was shit on it like yo now we're not doing them terms because he would come with favorable terms like yo

yo i'm just like fuck it the niggas a billionaire you don't give a fuck about like maybe a couple extra 100,000 or a couple emce. He just wants to you got to be cool with these guys. Yo, yeah, give him a good deal. They will look at it. The executives atlantic and shit on it like, what the fuck? Nick, we ain't doing that? Fuck out of here, nigga.

Yo, stay out of this music business shit. You're the son. That's all good until he gets power. Fired all them bitch ass things. Respectfully. All y'all got to go. My show now. This is like Empire chat. Got rid of all of them. They're all gone. You, Atlantic is being ran by the young niggins now, okay?

Somebody said, how I know? Because I talk to people. That's how I fucking know. What I'm saying, I've talked to the people that were with the people or who made the decisions. Okay, that's how I'm all fucking know. So got rid of all of them. And now that's why Atlantic, Warner, you know what I mean? is in a very interesting place.

So this Blavaknik family, and if y'all want to know what's under Warner, Warner Music Group labels, the list of record labels that fall under them are going to be, wait, okay, these. Oh, yeah, so they got asylum, Atlantic, they got 300, so Young Thug is under there now. young thuggers under there

I actually forgot if did QC go there Quality In equality control go there I don't know they bought a bunch of shit though They bought a bunch of shit they bought 300 for 300 million Right Yeah 300

They own 300 300 asylum Electra Yeah And basically there's one kid Who his father is just rolling in dough, but he's now getting to, you know, exercise his rights a little bit.

He's shaking shit up over there. Okay, so that's, and then this is where Elliot comes in with 10K projects, which I got to deal with. Yes, this is a shit ton of, like, and by the way, if you go into like Warner Music Nashville, you're going to find a bunch of country artists. So there's a bunch of artists there, you know what I'm saying? The point what I'm trying to say is that there's like ultimate musical chairs happening, right?

And that was my little industry spiel for anybody who cares about, like this industry drama because trust me I know y'all see I be in rappers business I'd be in executive business too I'm in everybody business period okay I'm in everybody business so essentially

so that's what's going on on Warner you got the billionaire son fucking not fucking shit up because I think he's going to do a great job and my man Lucian not Lucian I mean Elliot son of Lucian's going to do a great job too that's my guy he could call me anytime for help but

on universal side they're fighting for this guy's job Lucian. And it's going to come down to, unless his son comes and does some crazy shit. John versus Monty. Monty got Drake. John got the whole Interscope,

cataloging everything, Eminem and all that shit, aftermath and all that shit. They're competing. It's explained to me, it would make no goddamn sense. Monty Lipman would basically sabotage one of his artists to help out this nigger because he's going to make more revenue.

He's going to get the bonuses, and he's going to look better for whatever this job opens up. So that makes no sense. I hope that I give the longest, most in-depth breakdown ever. But I hope if you do watch me, that's why you watch me. Because I'm going to snitch on everybody in the music industry. Okay. I'll come here to tell you all day business.

All right. I'm sorry to say. Fill me. You'll never hear this from nobody else. That in-depth shit, I just told you. Okay? And by the way, nobody else would also refuted either. Okay?

Okay. Let's get back to the lawsuit. Drake. So yeah, so I had to give you that understanding because Drake knows this too, right? Drake knows that the people who are executives are incentivized by bonuses. And he, his lawyer draws it out here, right? Cool. Earlier this year, one of the artists that UMG has on a contract presented UMG with a song called Not Like Us,

before it was approved, before it approved the release of the song, they knew that the song itself, as well as the accompanying album art and music video attacked the character of one of another UMG most prominent artist, Drake, by falsely accusing him of being a sex offender, engaging in pedophilic acts, harboring sex offenders, and committing other criminal sexual acts. Specifically, the song calls Drake a certified pedophile, a predator, and someone, whose name should be registered and placed on a neighborhood watch. I go lie, that's funny. Your name is quoted the lurks.

It should be registered and placed on a neighborhood watch. Crazy. Okay. Pursuant to his rights under various contracts, UMG has exclusive control over the license of Not Like Us and could have refused to release or distribute the song or require the offended material to be edited and slash or removed. But UMG chose to do the opposite. They designed finance and then executed a plan to turn Not Like Us into a viral mega hit

with the intent of using the spectacle of harm to Drake and its businesses to drive consumer hysteria and of course massive revenues. The plan succeeded, likely beyond UMG's wildest expectations. UMG released a song Not Like Us on May 4th and the music video on July 4th. UMG relied on this exclusive licensing and in coordination with known and unknown third parties utilize every tool in the arsenal to spread not like us UMG may not like us available for radio playing cluna eye heart media a mass media corporation headquartered in san antonio texas by the way this was filed in bexher

county as i said what county is san antonio texas in bexher county so that's why this was really more aimed at it's aimed to be in the jurisdiction of the radio station more than it is in UMG. But UMG still connected, right? IHeart Media boasts that is the number one audio media company in the U.S. based on consumer research. They claim that it reaches 9 out of 10 Americans monthly and has more reach than any other company in the U.S. IHeart Media owns IHeart Radio. a freemium broadcast, podcast, and streaming company. Now, let me stop for a second real quick.

This is why I'm also, again, I'm going to, for the people who said, don't criticize Drake. I'm going to levy some more criticism at Drake. How is there not a PR directive with this? Drake, you're suing, your label that you're accusing of controlling everything. Then you sue, or you're trying to depose, but promising a lawsuit or seeking discovery and promising lawsuit

for Spotify, they control the plays. Then you're seeking a deposition in promising that you will sue I-Heart media. Let's break it down. Is anybody from Spotify supposed to playlist your music continually now? Or more? Or maybe just by the mere nature they work for these companies. They're going to do it less.

you say iHeart media is the most powerful media entity in the world how do you think their radio DJs and shock jocks and broadcasters are going to report this iHeart media owns power 105 how do you think they're going to report it didn't report it like you have a chance or they're going to say you're salty that's that's that's what i'm confused at drake it's like saying you're suing tm z but you let tm z make the narrative about what you're and four. Huh? That's confusing.

All of this stuff is reported through UMG's conglomerates and IHeart media. Didn't I just show before where Boy Wanda said complex is owned by UMG. Who owns complex? You'll see commerce media. You'll see it's something called network. and network is owned so you'll see n t w rk that's the parent company in 2024 they they acquire complex from buzzfeed for 108 million now who owns n t w rk you're going to see that their main investors no not complex what you're going to see is universal music group

group somewhere. I forgot where is that? Look, network buys complex with UMG as an investor. If Complex has to report that Drake is suing UMG and Complex

is owned by partly UMG, do you think they're going to say, Drake, you're actually making a good point here. You should sue our parent company. Or they're going to say this salty motherfucker who lost a battle

who's a white boy and a bitch is now suing the company that owns us. That's my point. Drake should have anticipated this media store and the mere fact that he's silent, I do think that's a big misstep on his point, on his behalf. Anyway, let's get back to it.

So they're suing I-Hart Media, right? UMG and I-Hart Media have a long-standing symbiotic business relationship where I-HartMedia pays UMG to license and collect royalties for UMG artists, songs over the radio, Airplay, and Streaming Services, demonstrated by the bankruptcy filings in 2018. The amount of money exchanged between them is substantially. In the last quarter of 2023,

through its recording division, they had an ownership interest of more than 60% of 100 songs listed on Billboard Hot 100 chart, radio charts. Without his business deals with UMG, Iheart would lose access to the majority of his top radio hits on the first week of not Like Us ranked first on the billboard, it had 5 million radio airplay's impressions. And that's how they kind of quantify radio impact, right?

In the first week of Not Like Us, it was played in the week that Not Like Us music video was released, Not Like Us, then got 40 million times or no, 40 million, an additional 40 million times that, right? Or not times that, but what impressions, I guess. Four months later, I Heart Leaderboard reported that Not Like Us was among the top two songs with the most plays on IHeart Station. Okay. So in a roundabout way, what they're saying is that IHart as a company, media company, needs Universal. Universal took a particular interest to the song based on what they got going on with Drake.

And not only did they incentivize Spotify in the first lawsuit, they incentivized the radio in the second lawsuit. Thank you. So, radio was only one of the mediums in which UMG relied to spread, not like us. Within a week of its initial release, it broke the record for the most stream song, da-da-da-da-da. And blah, blah, blah, blah. Cool.

The record shattering spread of not like us on streaming, sales and radio play was deliberate. It appeared to have relied upon irregularly and inappropriate business practices. According to one source known to the petitioner, UMG made covert payments to a number of platforms, including radio stations. Now, that's illegal. Now, pay for play.

That's illegal. To play and promote not like us. That's actually a crime. Paola, that would be a crime. Without disclosing these payments to listeners. This practice known as Paola is prohibited by the Communications Act of 1934 and has been a subject of regulatory scrutiny. In 2006, they agreed to pay $12 million in a settlement

with the New York Attorney General following an investigation involving accusation that UMG executives have used a broad array of pay-for-play tactics to secure radio airplay from music. Separately in 2005, UMG was sued by two radio promotion companies, alleging fraudulent pay-for-play practices. Petitioner, I've learned of at least one UMG employee making payments to an independent radio promoter who had agreed to transfer those payments to a certain radio station or radio station employees. These radio stations subsequently played not like us, and to petitioner's knowledge, did

so without disclosing to their listeners that they've been paid to do so. Petitioner has been unable to confirm whether any I-Heart stations were among the stations paid a part of the UMG pay-to-pay-play scheme or whether they were direct payments from UMG to promote it or not. Given the status as the number one audio company in the country, they believe that they engage in similar tactics to drive radio play to not. like us. Okay. So what Drake is doing here, and this is going to be a little bit controversial, he's kind of, he's kind of being a whistleblower to payola. Now, the reason why it's going to be

controversial is because I think some people are going to make the argument to say, bro, okay, let's say we believe you and that payola existed, and in particular to it's not like us. So are we supposed to believe that no payola ever existed in regards to hotline bling going that viral or that public? This is the very holistic approach that Drake is taken. If we all cheating on a test, but then I call you out for cheating, I better not be cheating, right? This is, you know, I have to imagine that Drake's team directly or to Drake's knowledge,

his team has never engaged in payola or bots. That's what this is telling me. Or else, you know, if I'm these companies, I just expose Drake. Okay, all, cool. even though I don't think they would want to go that because exposing Drake exposing yourself to expose Drake is going to look bad for both y'all and you know

you have a bigger business than what Drake has going on but this is interesting Drake found these lawsuits is kind of hanging his hat on I've never done this that's what Drake is saying now granted let me make the distinction because somebody I'm gonna be like me that's cap man Drake was a hat bots at some point no hell no

Drake is saying his team directly ain't never bought nothing ain't never pay no radio promoters. Now, I will also be fair, and this is not Dick Rodner standing. I know a lot of people within digital marketing. I know a lot of people within radio promotion. I know a lot of people within Drake, again,

maybe he's been paid for at a higher level, but Drake's music has never been the thing that people have said, yo, we collected $500,000 for Drake's campaign off of Drake's team. What I mean by his team? His media team is, man. his the person which I don't know if he has PR but his PR guy like yeah and by the way you know who came out recently to to uh just co-sign us a bit funk flex look at this chat phone flex said yo and by the way I don't know why flex would do this flex says yo DJs are supposed to play a song

because it's hot the music industry will black black ball me for this but that's okay needs to be said saying about Kendrick his amazing song but pay for play got to stop. Now here's the interesting the interesting part about it. And I'm kind of like torn on this because okay, cool. I've always, like, I've acknowledged that there's bots in music,

but I've never said one artist does it. I used to say to Nicky Minaj, when Nicky Menaz was accusing Cardi B of Paola or that there were paying blogs, whatever, that's not Paola, actually. You know, I guess influence a marketer, marketing. I used to say, well, here's a reality. Every label does it.

So here's my only thing with this. When anyone tries to call out a system, that the system is pervasive in working for everybody, the major label infrastructure is paying for promotion. It's paying for radio play. It's paying for playlist spots. That's how this works. It might be done through intermediaries.

By the way, if a label wants to get airplay for their songs, you know what they do? They don't pay the radio station to say, play my song. There's two ways to do it. One way, hey, we have a concert coming up, or he has a tour coming up. We'll pay you to promote the tour. Wink, wink, wink.

Play the song, nigger. We're going to give you these ads that you got to run. Hey, coming to Milwaukee on November. 17th, we're going to have a little Ray Ray. He's performing at this arena. Buy your tickets now. He's the hottest thing in town. He just dropped this album, this album, blah, blah, blah. We pay you half a million for that. Play our song.

At least once every three hours. Wink, wink. Okay, I'll play it. When they sue, yet they never paid us to play music. We just played it voluntarily. You get what I'm saying? That's one finesse. So the second finesse is this.

Yo, fuck that. We want to hold these guys accountable because we're going heavy on a campaign, right? Because when you do the, oh, I'm just paying for promotion of a concert and I hope you play the music because of that, that's up to their discretion.

I mean, at that point, you can't have a contract that verbally says, play my song twice an hour, every hour between these days and these days. So how do you get to that? What you do it through a radio promoter? You get a radio promoter, you give them the money, they know what you want,

they're the third party, and the radio promoter goes to the radio and says, hey, check this out. We're going to do the deal with you, but we're going to need these, you're going to have to guarantee us this. And because it's not done directly with the label, You have now evaded the law.

Because the law only really monitors the radio. So payola has never went away. It's just going to radio promotion companies. Or labels have had to just say it a little bit different. Oh, we're paying for you ought to promote a pop-up shop. No. We're paying you to play the record, nigga. We ain't pay you $200,000 to promote a fucking concert.

The fuck? The nigga not even getting $200,000 for the concert. We paid you $2,000. 200,000 to spin that record like he's going out of style. Anyway, funk flex, you know, I don't know why he's doing this because he works on radio still. He's amended. Yo, Drake is 100% right. National play per song.

Drake don't got to pay for play. For pop radio and CHR, what's that? Radio? 350,000 if you want your song played on these platforms. For urban radio, 200. Yeah, I've heard his number a lot. Quarterman. million dollars now i don't know if this means um on the hour every hour i don't know what the frequency

is but for a campaign a radio promoter is going to take quarter million dollars to get your song played through a huge region right mix show which means are the guys who they're like oh shit yo it you know it's it's memorial weekend we play it what's the vibes you're we're going to we go we're going to hit the caribbean set but we're going to throw in a cup of hip-hop joints when they throw a couple of hip-hop joints This is your joint Yeah, these are DJs who are just mixing Right

The local DJ The nigga who might be on the radio Maybe once every two weeks But he always in the club Shit, he'll take You got a new song This is what young rappers do So if you're a new rapper

And you want like, you know You know that one DJ that be on the radio You know here And by the way, let me tell you how this makes sense If you're a local DJ that works at Hot 97 once a month, Hot 97 probably pays you $2,000. That's it.

So you're on the radio for four hours, or say three hours, you get $2,000. $2,000. It's a lot of money still, but still. So for three hours, $2,000, right? If you pay that radio DJ, $3,000 as an artist, because they have an audience, which is the radio,

you pay them $3,000. Remember, that DJ has, certain free reign to play what they want. Not everything, but certain things. Those few songs they could pick as their discretion, they're going to play your song. That's how they make their money. So they're getting paid 2K by the radio station.

They charge like three or four artists three to five K. This is why you see them living pretty good. This game is great. I hope all these guys keep doing what they're doing. This is why, you know, anything. This is why Drake, people don't get mad at Drake. You're fucking up the game.

Fucking up the game. This is how some of these things is feeding their families. Yeah, some of the shit illegal, but hey, this is what it is. This is the finesse. The label's finesse. Everybody else finesse. Labels finesse. The radio station, nigg, finesse.

That's what happened, right? Cool. So it's five days a week. Most of those DJs wouldn't be on five days a week. Or else, you know, like, you get paid a different rate because you're going to want you to play five days a week. So that's why independent artists don't rise to the top. Yeah, here's the thing for anybody who's independent,

I ain't tell you how to go sell drugs, but if you want to pop off in this game, you got to have $100,000 to invests. Because here's the thing, nobody's going to do shit for you for free. You want to get on the radio's money. There's nobody going to be like, like, it happens, but very rarely,

people are like, oh my God, this shit sounds good. Like, let's fight for this person and get platformed at whatever. No, it's going to be you using your money. to pay a nigger who knows a nigger who has access to the other nigger that makes the list or makes the or does the DJ and that's how it goes right says all you is this is why independent artists don't rise to the top all you are you artists know i never take a dime from you you're a manager your labels the bomb has no price yeah that's how it goes it definitely do go like that surprised that that he was just um to say it though you know flex you wilding bro flex you walling girl

All right, anyway. So cool. So UMG is directed as digital marketing team to use discretional funds provided or reimbursed by UMG to pay unknown third parties to share the not like us songs in the days after they were released. Now, I do have a problem with this slightly. Just because I'm one of the people who, like, that's the industry that I play it. And granted, I will be very honest. Kendrick's team has never paid me. dime and I've talked to the because I work with the people.

I'm mad transparent. Like the niggas who's who pay for, this is why I want y'all tell me, yo, accurate line about the body. The niggas who work for Kendrick, I made millions with. What are you talking about?

Matter of fact, they used to work for multiple labels. They only work for Kendrick now. And I wouldn't never name them because I fuck with them guys. Like, who cares if they're just on, bro, they're making their money. Let them do the thing.

Um, here's, and by the way, You know what they told me? They said, listen, when Kendrick was, because Kendrick spent money, if you think Kendrick didn't spend money, you're a fucking idiot. There was a directive. They said when the Kendrick promo goes like this.

When At Get On Stream, if he ever has a weird facial expression to Drake's shit or criticizes Drake, or says something that makes, this is during the battle. Clip that and send it out to the blogs. You're spending up to $30,000, for blogs to repost. So they're pretty much refus. posted me except none of it goes to and I guess they think I have a conglomerate

which I guess I do. Me and all like my chat nigger like associates so anybody who likes Drake who I fuck with no money got spent with us which is cool I mean I get it like I'm not mad what the fuck but you know it happens and by I'm not there's nothing wrong with it I think I ain't nothing wrong with it

like to keep it real you know I really think I'd be looking at Drake like Drake like everybody spends money you shouldn't spend money I'm sorry like this is what's going on So Drake is trying to say, nah, the game ain't fair. And I'm like, bro, this game has been done everywhere. Every artist is doing it.

Like, I get it. You are so hot for so long that you've never had to do it. But don't think it was only done to you. Every big song that came out, there is hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars being spent all over the place. Nick, I was in Atlantic when they told me, they said, yo, act, we rather promote music.

Like, I won't even tell you what artists, music like this, they said to buy a Time magazine cover is half a million dollars. And it doesn't do that much. Everything is a payment, brother. Like, I'm keeping it a being with y'all. Y'all don't want to hear it. Y, y'all want to believe like these rappers are pure. This is a business.

You think, yo, Kendrick is generating. He's about to generate 50 to $100 million with not like us. You think this is just because people like it? Of course people like it. And that's another thing I think Drake is, I don't know if his filings are his own opinion. People do like the song. But was money spent? Duh.

Should have money spent. On every big song money spent. Work. Him and Rihanna. Money was spent. Trust me. Rihanna's label ran it through the roof. Shout out to Rock Nation, nigga.

It ran that shit to the roof. That's how we should go, though. It is what it is. Like, you know, so me, I kind of see a nuanced perspective. It's where I'm like, yeah, the Kendrick bot? Of course. In my opinion, of course. It was a bot.

Is that the only reason the song? is hot, fuck no. People really like it. He did tap in the culture. People like the shit. But I do look at Drake following this to say, yo, this is threatening to blow up what's going on in the industry, except I'm looking at it to say, bro, maybe you've been hot for too long. You don't understand how everything moves in this situation because every artist, and I don't want to name their names, because I work with them directly. I work with all these guys' team. So, you know, part of this does come across like Drake is blowing the whistle. Like he's like,

like, it's a nigga who goes to the local basketball court. Yo, some nigger comes through balling, use his own ball shooting from half court and be like, and he gets tight. He's like, I'm taking my ball. I'm going home. Like, damn, what the fuck? Nigel, you are scoring with the same ball too.

Yeah. Part of that comes across like that, right? Because everything to anybody in the industry, where Drake is a legend here, none of this is new. Oh Do I think By the way I don't think is UMG

I think Kendrick's team directly paid a bunch of niggas I know they paid a bunch of niggas Somebody said how does this ultimately play out Does Drake with money? I think no I think no because here's this Before they pay Drake a dollar It opens them up to so much of a bigger

liability From everybody who could claim this They have to put all their resources sources. UMG pays and from just what I've been estimated over $100 million in legal fees. They have lawyers or retainers and they're paying $100 million

a year is to make sure that if you were a rapper and you made them $50 million by rapping about killing your ops and then because of one of your diss songs you get smoked

your family ain't going to get no money from UMG is saying, why did you let my son? Why did you promote the song of my son dissing the ops? It's the one that made the ops come kill him. You're responsible for his death. No, we're not. They put a lot of money to make sure these frivolous lawsuits. Oh, your favorite drug addict rapper.

Oh my God, I love taking 20 perks. I'm high off the codeine, the pro-metazine, the zanny, the zanny got me lit. Okay, that nigga dies two weeks later off of overdose. their mom is like, oh my God, my son never used to take drugs. I'm suing the company. Why did y'all let my son drop a song about his zanny addiction? Their lawyers squash all that. Universal's not paying no money to nobody, bro.

So that's what I'm saying. If they have avoided lawsuits that could come from, you think that? You think FBG dumb mama could go sue UMG and win? Dirk dropped the song and made millions, and UMG made millions called Shoulda? Duked. Vaughn dropped the song,

took him to the old. You'd think she could go with no money from them? Fuck no. You know why? Everybody who ever got their shit split, respectfully, their mamas would be lining up saying, I'm still in the record company

because people diss me. No, we don't work like that. You ain't winning nothing. So I don't think Drake won't win nothing either. I don't care how much lawyers he got. Yeah, Drake's a billionaire. Like, listen, I know we're talking about Drake like you're a big dog. but Drake's a billionaire to a trillion dollar industry.

Come on, bro. Like, he's a little piece of the pie. And this would threaten to fuck up the entire game. Now, granted, let me be cynical. I'll be cynical with you all. If Drake wins here, music is forever changed. Forever changed. Forever changed.

Because now, once music gets to a certain level, like, yeah, maybe drill music still has. or certain lower level music still happens where people are saying, yo, you a bitch, I heard you slept with a transformer, which might be a lie. Yeah, maybe if nobody cares, but once you get to a mid-tier artist, you know what they're going to institute?

We got to review your music for factuality. Oh, you said that nigga was a bitch and he got slapped in. Somebody stuck the gun in his ass? Well, we need to have, before you could say that, I sound good on the record, but we need to be able to be able to. prove it because if they come back around and sue us for defamation or sue us for whatever, whatever, we're going to have to pay out because we have to pay Drake because Kendrick lied

that he was a pedophile and he's not a pedophile and we had to pay Drake $2 billion. So now we got to police y'all niggas. The music industry was changed. So it's either completely changes or they treat Drake like they treat everybody else. Yo, we're going to violate you in court. And then not only we go, and this was, you know, I really, you know, I'm hoping at some point, whether to me or somebody Drink kind of explains this,

because I don't think only violating him in court is what UMG's response going to be. You got to, you got to remember. They always said back in the days of the nights and all that type of stuff when people had castles, when somebody tried to invade your spot, invade your, like, yo shit, after you defeat them in war,

you cut their head off and you put it on a stake outside of the fucking palace. You know why? You got to send a message to everybody else. Don't come up in this bitch. This is what happens.

So, Universal, got to send a message to Drake. They got to. They can't, they gotta send a message. Hear how this message is going to go. Not only do they want to do it in court, but do you think they want to send,

they probably want to send a message by whatever shit he was about a drop with party? You better drop that on 100gigs.com. You may not try. try to drop that to us, nigga. We're going to make sure that shit flop. We're going to make sure that shit don't go nowhere.

All that perception of you being so hot, we're going to make sure this shit look away now, nigga. We got to make an example out of you. And by the way, here's the thing. Universal have been making examples out of niggas for a long time. They made an example out of Kanye. They made an example out of 50 cent. Anytime a nigga think he's too big for their britches,

granted, you might argue like, Oh, no. Well, I would argue when 50, put it like this, 50 was the hottest thing smoking from 2002, 2003 to 2005. And in 2005, 2006, the moment he went against Jimmy Iveen and not necessarily even, he didn't even touch Lucian. He didn't even get to Lucian. He got to one of the niggas who was on the list below Lucian.

At that point, they said, I hope you got some movie scripts because you're, done here, nigga. I hope you got some movie scripts because you're finito. 50 was completely obliterated. They crowned Kanye the new winner. 50 star, like,

come on, bro. You can't fuck with it. You can't fuck with Universal, bro. Who's done it? And won. Except Taylor. That's why I keep saying it's a Teller Swift moment. Who's done it? What they did the Kanye? Remember when Kanye was like, yo, they won't let me buy back.

Remember? Look. what company owns Universal Drake going at Universal you're not even going to a Republic he's going to Universal. What owns Universal? What owns Def Jam? Universal.

So Universal owns all these companies. Remember when Kanye was like, yo, they won't let me buy when he shows the contract. Kanye shows contract, Def Jam. You got to realize, nigga, they boxed that nigga out.

Now, granted, he's still. selling a hundred hundred and twenty k without that right but then he spiraled all the way into doing some anti-somatic shit then they just dropped them with cause but he ain't never went at universal like the parent company he's his fight was with death jam they body the shit out of coney kick that thing out of here get out of here nigger go sell some sneakers get out of here go to Japan. Go get head on the rafts. Fuck out of here, nigga.

So that's why I'm looking at the Drake thing, and I'm like, holy shit. Yo, 50 got fucked up by going at Jimmy Ivy. The game got fucked up by even breathing hard at Jimmy Ivan. And that's Interscope. How the fuck I expect to go at Big Boss Top Dog Lucian? Y'all can't fuck with him. He's going to have y'all niggas being played in Botswana. Huh?

Y'all niggas can't fuck what. Now, granted, it appears that Drake look like he's down and take on the fight. Here's my biggest problem with that. Remember, as I said, timing. Everybody's reading this as you versus Kendrick. This guy ain't got nothing to do with Kendrick. Like, of course, it's a song. But this was, if I'm listening to this, right,

Drake's been talking to Universal for a year, having all type of problems, run into mad roadblocks. Obviously, when he sees the battle go down the way he did, he's looking at it's like, what the fuck? Now, these niggies was, oh, they was trying to help that niggas because they don't fuck with me right now. And that's why we get a lawsuit. But at the end of the day, it don't matter. It's you and universal.

You can't fuck with universal. We ain't seen nobody do it. Only people I've seen one in public opinion or even just in contractually. Dave Chappelle, how he won with Comedy Central. he forced Comedy Central to have to give him back his shit. The people were on his side, though. The people said Netflix, we will not watch that. If Dave Chappelle isn't happy.

Comedy Central, we don't want it. And the Netflix said, well, you know, we don't want this shit no more then. They had to go make Dave Chappelle happy. Taylor Swift, hey, I'm, yo, I might be good with music. if this don't get fixed her fans is like I'm right you where Swifties

you heard what she said all right fuck it let's get her fucking masters god damn it who else Kanye charted with Adidas

thing they kicked that nigger so far out the Adidas office I don't even know if Kanye could spell Adidas right now they got that nigga

to fuck out of here so Kanye Kanye thought he could do with Adidas because after he left Nike, Adidas looked like they were looking at him like that. Oh my god it's Kanye. Then he tried it with Adidas

and they said, get the fuck out of here, nigga. And they sued that nigga and said, we're going to keep your Yeeis too, nigga. We ain't giving that shit back. Fuck out of here. Bodyed Kanye. I'm sorry. Kanye's my guy but bodied him. They're still selling Yeezis. And he's still mad.

You can't, yo. You had Didio of him like, like, dintu, dintu, dint, din, din, din. Then, then, then, then. All of that shit with Surrock thinking he, like, like, cause of some Harlem shake, and because he got the niggins with the Surrott bottle, he's good.

He started bucking up in the company, Diageo. This said, are you out of your fucking freak off mind? They got him out of the paint. Nigel, they weren't so tight at him. They got him in a jail cell. Fuck out of here, nigga. Stop playing with us. Sirrock is still selling.

We ain't hear nothing about no dip. Oh, Sirrock hasn't been solstice. It's a fuck out of here. They got him out of the paint. They got them out of paint. So this is what I'm trying to say. Drake having this moment and the only two people we've seen somewhat successful going against the conglomerate that powered them all these years was Taylor Swift and fucking Dave Chappelle. Kaye kicked to the wayside.

Who else? Diddy, they locked his ass up. Jay-Z, Baccarty told that nigga to kick rock. They did pay him, though. But he ran to his other billionaire friends, but he wasn't bucking as people thought he was. He wasn't bucking like Diddy was bucking. Diddy was bucking.

Kaya was tweaking. They got the minkies out of here. Shut up. There's a music. It was a rapper. Shut up. So that's what I'm saying. Drake having his moment.

My only thing I was saying early in the stream Drake should have did it in 2016. He had the most power. He had infinity stones because he was making streaming. He helped lay the blueprint for the fucking streaming for the whole streaming market.

It was 20 million back then. It's 250 million now for each company. He helped that shit go 10X. He could have said some shit back then to say, you bitch-ass niggas want me to do this? Give me a little bit more power. Instead he said, man, give me some bread. I'm about to get the jumbo jet.

And give me this. I'm about to go buy Ferrell's chains. And I'm going to fuck all y' niggas' holes. And then we're straight. And now they're like, all right, cool. You got the jet. You fucked everybody's bitch. And you bought all for else chains.

What's up now? All right. Give me more money. No. No. No, no, no. Well, you want a 600? Oh, give you this.

fucked up, right? All right. The purpose of U.S.G. payments to third parties was to inflate artificially the metrics reported relating to not like us to encourage media and some music critics. Oh shit. Who was getting paid? Music critic commentary. Damn. From what I heard, a few niggies got paid.

Some of y'all little k-bought defenders, even your media personalities, man. I know some of y'all have been starving for a long time. Yeah, I finally got your first. when PG land cut that check for y'all. I'm not going to like this blast y'all. But this is why I'm trying to say, yo, listen, take the bag, do what you got to do,

even though you're a fraud, but it's all good. But be graceful in it. You know what I mean? Stop acting like this is like some new regime. Brother, if Drake had offered you the same amount or a little bit more, you'd be on his side. Let's just keep it a beat, right? Let's just be very honest, all right?

Okay. one whistleblower whose identity is unknown revealed publicly that someone from management paid him thousands of dollars or whatever to achieve 30 million streams Spotify petitioner has received information that UMG also paid a third party influencers they're kind of almost mirroring the last lawsuit or the petition I mean they phone payment to I heart radio and its radio stations as part of his pay to play scheme And this is where the defamation stuff come in. Petitioner has amassed sufficient, you know, facts to pursue certain torturous claims against UMG, including but not limited to, a claim for defamation, okay? But currently lacks factual support needed or necessary to determine whether he may bring claims of a civil fraud and racketeering against UMG, and as many other unidentified co-conspirators who violate payable of laws

and accept to elicit payments and other things of value from UMG without disclosure. I will say, I hope Drake has all his ducks in order because, and if you ask me, I'd be shocked if I saw a party next door's album dropped this year, the collab album, because it can't be in good faith that Universal would be releasing this album. They're not incentivized to want to support. it. They kind of want to back up off Drake right now. Like this is this is

legal posturing. We can't just act like this and happen. And this tells me then do I think Drake is just going to drop a collab album in the midst of this?

Why? It's going to hurt the way you're perceived. Because now it's in the best interest of I-heart to hurt the perception. This is what, again, Drake is also not doing it. And again, I'm a little disappointed. You got to communicate with the people, bro. Every time you hear

artists complain about their label, 99% of the time it's the artist's fault. These artists are signing these contracts willingly. And when, whatever how they feel, if they're on drugs or whatever going on, they want to do something else than the label requires them to do contractually. They start

bitching. And the first thing they do, and this is the biggest leverage for all artists when they sign a deal. They go to the fans. Yo, I can't put out no more music. I know y'all want my, mama music, but I can't get it. Yo, the whole $51 million shit with Lil Wayne,

he should have been, he should never let it get to $51 million. He should have been audited in them. He should have been on top of his business, rather than coming up with a huge number for a huge time period, that was going to be really hard to figure out. out. But he was dropping albums and still doing his thing.

How did he get people to kind of pressure Birdman and cash money? The people. Yo, you're not getting Card of Five until they're there holding back Card of Five. They weren't holding back Card of Five. He had to agree to a particular version of Card of Five going out. From what I heard, they had a version of Card of Five. But Wayne didn't agree to that version going out. supposedly he had another version.

And in them trying to get that version, he leveraged that to basically come to the fans. Yo, they're holding me hostage. They ain't pay me my money. Free me, free Wayne. Everybody started the free Wayne campaign. Universal saw it lucrative enough to pay Wayne. Here's my thing with Drake.

He's never came to the fans with any of his label gripes or his concerns about contracts or his dealing with labels. Only thing we ever heard Drake say is Bragg. Yo, they gave me 20 million here. You, I got four hundred mill over here. They gave me another this mill over here. So this is new, but this is going to be important

if Drake really wants people to get behind this. He kind of has to let people know the nature of his gripe. And I'm telling you, I don't care how great I read this fucking lawsuit or break it down. The artist himself has to. tell us. What's your gripe? Because right now, and Kendrick's, you know, great PR team, they're going to spin this as, yo, I told you, I told you we fucked up the Canadian. He's suing us now. That's not really what it is. The timing would suggest that, but that's not what it is. So Drake will have to say some shit. I haven't got a lot of it. Or is it going to keep looking back.

Now, here's the thing, too, what I was thinking about. I was like, well, Drake could probably Holly say, yo, my team did this. I didn't have any knowledge of them doing it. Like, I have handlers and I have a team and they're doing this. I really know too much. But that's the OVO sound label kind of who controls certain shit with me. They're making sure they protect me. That's not me doing that as an artist.

That kind of happens at times. You know, like think back at the, anybody watch Mr. Beast? That's Mr. Beast, like, excuse. He's like, yo, I ain't suing nobody. that's people who work for me doing or not suing but i didn't invest no money in no no coin that got rugged like it's just my people who did that they were doing on my behalf because they thought it was the best for me but that's not something i'm personally doing and then you start to try to separate the person from their actions because you're like oh they have a team

you know what i mean like j z kind does a good job with it like like we'll blame certain shit on rock nation we won't say j z even though j z is the boss of Rock Nation. He owns it. Right? But we'll say, oh, rock nation, but we won't say,

we'll be like, oh, we'll even bring up somebody else. Like, oh, that's Desiree Perez. She's a CEO. Who owns Rock Nation? Jay-Z.

We don't say, that's what Jay-Z is doing. Not in every situation. Some we do. Right? Anyway, in the second case, so the first case is

Frozen Moments LLC, the one that controls all his copyrights. In the second case, because he asserts defamation. and the defamation would not be viable for frozen moments. It would be viable more for him as a person. That's why Drake's name is actually on this directly.

So Drake is an individual domiciled and residing in Washington County, Texas. IHeartMedia is an audio media company incorporated in Delaware. And with a primary business place of San Antonio, Texas, our media principal executives are located in, San Antonio, Texas. And our media through his radio division operates more than 60 radio stations in Texas, including 9 in San Antonio, 8 in Dallas, 7 in Houston, and they might be served via its registered agent, CT Corporation Systems at 1999, but they, okay, in Dallas, Texas.

UMG is owned by this company, NV, which is publicly owned, da-da-da, and it's under the law of the Netherlands, okay? So they do this, jurisdiction, and their request to the polls. And, you know, they want to be able to ask questions. Did you ever get paid to do this? Did you get, what was the nature of the agreement? Why you played not like us 14,000 times this week? Okay, so they're asking for a deposition,

and they want one sent to IHeartMedia. They want one sent to UMG. And again, they want to ask IRMedia. These questions, they wanted to see financial benefits that they got in exchange of playing the song to spread to billions of listeners. And I want to learn the identities and practices of the direct participants in the pay-to-pay to pay-to-play scheme including any intermediaries who may be involved and in our media

They're trying to seek a oral deposition where the corporate representatives have to You know, investigate the evidence of the UMG conspiracy to increase radio play for the song with financial benefits Okay Critical evidence that are okay cool so all this all this And then these are the lawyers that Drake filed this through. You're going to see actually Drake's signature here, Aubrey, Drake, Graham. So, you know, got to say, it's Drake. He, somebody signed on his behalf or this is a signature.

Right. Okay. Okay. All right, people. So that's the lawsuit. Bigger picture. As I said, bad timing. I'm really wondering why this is the angle,

even if you're having this beef with your label, about say a renegotiation, you wanted more money, they don't want to give it to you, why do you wrap it around not like us? When, I mean, PR-wise, and it's going to be, you're going to have to say it in court

that you feel that not like us is a song that hurt your either earning potential or it hurts your negotiation potential. And which means that that song was super damaged, into you. And that's obviously what he's claiming, but it's kind of tough, right? It's kind of tough.

Again, very interesting time for this. Not only with the Kendrick stuff, him dropping his project, but, like, respectfully, like, Drake's a huge artist, man. Like,

I see people keep saying Jaru. You, yo, y'all get off Jaru's motherfucking dick, man. Like, I ain't trying to disrespect Jowru, but the nigga was popping for four years and out of here. Like, Drake been popping for 10, 15, Drake runs two genres at once

Rhythmic hip-hop And he runs R&B Same time Like this guy's a different monster The guy has the highest hip-hop tour of all time And that's my thing about people Even trying to say this Jarl rule term Like with all due respect to Jarl

Your favorite rapper never had the highest grossing tour of all time Drake has that by a hundred million dollars Your favorite rapper is not on that fucking list Jaru's nowhere to be found. Like, Drake's accomplishments in Jarlul are like so far that to even utter Jarlul is so disrespectful. Jarlal never even hit the heights that I even, I think, 50 cent got to. And 50s never hit the heights that Drake got to. So what the fuck are we talking about?

You're talking about a nigger who just basically went up a slope down the block versus that nigger who's on Mount Everest so we could say is in space. That's another thing about people talking about a potential fall. If Drake is going to ever fall, there's a long way from the top. And we'll see how that presents itself. Because now we have metrics. Drake went on a tour, I think 90 dates. $300 million.

If he can't do that again, if that's not a thing, okay, that's a metric. You can say, that's the fall off. Drake's last album with limited promo, keep in mind. Keep in mind, this is during this negotiation period where his labels not supporting him. And when I mean not supporting, of course they're still doing it got through, but this isn't like they just gave him the money.

They realized Drake hit a lick on them. You ain't see Drake rush out four or five albums? Let me tell you how it works in the music business. I could tell you because, and this is my guy, hopefully, his team ain't going to feel no way about it. One of the major things that young boy did when he left Atlantic and he went over the Capitol,

labels say you could only drop one album a year or sometimes they say a year and a half why if they sign for five albums they want to keep you at least five years that now you might be oh i got to drop more music but it don't count yeah you get paid if there's a there were a coupon whatever they gave you but it don't count against their contract they have you locked in for five years so young boy dropped 22 projects and they said 80% of the never counted. Yo, we told you, you can only drop one approved project per year, brother. We didn't tell you to drop eight. But thank you for the eight. We're going to say a little bit more money because, you know, we don't use that much money to promote your shit. But those masters, we still own. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we own those masters. Because as long as you drop during the contract period, this is how all your projects are owned. You know why they didn't give a fuck? Because now they own so much of his fucking catalog in terms of the percentage of the masters that, first,

Forever and for always, they're going to be good. They don't give two fucks. That's how when young boy was trying to resign with Atlantic, and he said, yo, don't give me extra $10 million. How about you just give me some of my old masters? They're like, well, the thing about that is you gave us about 20 projects or like, really like 18 projects for the free ski.

And we just own those just because. Why the fuck we want to give it back to you? Huh? No, we rather give you $10 million. Take 10. No, no, no, no. No. I don't want the money.

Just give me. Nah. Take an extra 10 or we're good. So you know what young boy did? Went over the Capitol. You know his deal with his capital? They lowered the time. So they understand he's a modern artist.

He loves his fans. His fans love what he dropped music. He could drop music. I believe it's like six months. It's down to six months. So every six months he could drop an album. And it count towards his requirement. Drake, from what I heard, lowered that time as well.

Obviously, Drake's been around. Drake's really go shit mad times. That's nothing people don't realize. But he signed a deal that he could speed through. He didn't have to wait all those years or wait till they recouped. You know why? Drake has printed money. Also, he leveraged the fact that they're eating so much off of his back catalog

that dropping frequently helps the back catalog. And by the way, 80 to 85% of Drake's current streams is from albums dropped over six years ago. That's another thing. You know what I mean? You know, as we like, you know, and I'm being very fair here, I love Drake. That's my favorite artist, but like, bro, the labels look at him different because, you know, Kendrick will never beat Drake in terms of streams. You know why? It doesn't matter about what Drake puts out now.

It don't matter what Kendrick puts out. Drake, Kendrick just ain't even that hot. I'm surprised the nigga sold 291. What I mean, surprise. I thought he was going to do 500. Clearly he ain't that hot. But here's the thing. Drake don't got to do nothing.

He'll beat Kendrick for the rest of his life. I'm going to tell you why. what Drake did from up to I want to say from 2009 to 2019 that back catalog is beating everybody's ass he don't got to drop he's going to be the number one streamed artist for the foreseeable future in hip hop foreseeable future without even dropping so I don't care what Kendrick drops and that's the thing y'all can say Kendrick becomes the hottest rapper, he still won't have the most monthly streams. Not over Drake. Drake's catalog is too good.

You have to realize one dance is still a top 20 stream song every month. One dance, always. You got what I'm saying? It's just a song that, like, Drake's catalog is disgustingly amazing for streaming. So, Kendrick could compete contemporarily if we're only thinking about new music, but But overall, you can't fuck with Drake. He's done too much hits and gave too much big songs. That's why the label is also looking at him to say, all right, we just need you to put out more music because every time you put out more music, yeah, one dance always streams and Hotline Blaine and those songs, but it'll stream a little bit more.

But whatever. So that's where their conversation is with Drake. And they're probably also looking at Drake to say, yo, bro. you know we don't got to give you $600 million. Like we own more of your projects when you were dropping views. And when you were dropping nothing was the same. You know that, right? So it's a whole thing.

Someone said, I eat it all up, pause. But I'm telling you the truth. What I'm trying to tell you is more music industry game. Y'all keep talking about, yo, I'm not telling you this because I want to make Drake look good. because I'm also saying something that probably hurts him. Kendrick could kill himself four times to come back. His numbers overall as a catalog can't fuck with Drake. He doesn't drop enough and we don't foresee him drop enough

or drop enough big songs to compete. Drake has done that. The way how these companies look at it is not, oh, what you're dropping now? Like put it like this. inner scope like with all to respect GNX 2-91 even though he was going to do more they're making a killing off good Kidmat City

they're going to probably make more this week off good Kidmat City than GNX and GNX is going to sell 10 times more why because they own more of good kidmat city that's just a reality of it so that's what I'm trying to say we're in a streaming era that Drake helped create but it's about catalog so these artists are and that's what I'm saying

it doesn't help Drake all the way because They're looking at Drake's new projects and say, yo, bro, you already gave us hotline blinging like, like motherfucking one dance and these other diamond songs. Like, bro, we don't give a damn that much to give you 600 mil. We'll give you. Yeah, we want to keep you and shit, but we ain't trying to do the most. We get more money off your old shit.

And that's why they probably also allow them to drop quicker because the more an artist drops, it refreshes their old catalog. So rather than give Drake whatever amount of money and say you got to drop every year, because you got to imagine, you got to recoup that money. Let's say 400 million, you got to recoup it. It would probably make sense to say, all right, there's going to be a four-year contract. We're going to recoup 100 million or hope to recoup 100 million a year. But from what I heard, Drake, I don't know if there is no limit to it, but this probably is because it's a contract.

but Drake could drop frequently. This is why you see Drake drop a project with, he drops, honestly, never mind, and goes right into, yo, I'm doing her loss. And right after her loss, he's like, yo, for all the dogs coming. Theoretically, the label want him to wait. Yo, wait, my nigga. Hold on a second. Because again, if they're counting each, well, they want him to wait because they don't want

to count the next one. Not that they don't want to make money. They don't want to count the next one as an album. because if you speed through a contract, they got to give you another contract. Like, I'll give you the example. Kodak Black, what do you get signed? Was it 2017?

2016? Kodak becomes a free agent. You know, sometimes they add an album here, or an addendum or something. He becomes a free agent like 2023, 222. Their first five years are on the first label, which owns all, if you last over five years, Remember, I keep saying that rappers are running backs if you watch football.

If you could last five years, you're lit. So put it like this. If you could even have a contract negotiation after five years and you want more money, that means your catalog is worth a lot, which means they got. And this is another thing. Here's the thing. I'm going to give you something super interesting. This is how it works.

This is why people don't change labels as much, right? You know in NBA, they'll have, and I'm using sports to try to, you know, relate to some of you guys here. So, you know, with sports, they're like, yo, if you've stayed at a team for three years, that's the only team that could offer you a Supermax. And the Supermax might be like $60 million extra, but it doesn't go against that team, what do you call, like salary cap, right? So that's what you're seeing players stay with the same team, right? Like, that's incentive, right? Well, there's a bigger incentive to stay with the same label. I'll tell you why.

If I signed Kodak Black and I own all of his albums, remember when you sign a new artist, you own the whole catalog. You own more percentage points. They don't got all leverage. You own the whole shit. When they start re-uping and they're still lit, now they want to own some shit. So you're going to own less. Who could pay that artist more?

than the label that already owns their shit making guaranteed millions off of their catalog already. You get what I'm saying? So a new label has to, like, they would have to come out of pocket with nothing that they have no return. Like, put like this. So say Kodak and Atlantic. Atlantic was probably going to get $2,3 million off Kodak's back catalog no matter what.

Every year. So if Kodak says, You all right, if there's space and now, we can give him 20 over four years. Okay, every year we're getting two million from his back catalog. That's going to be eight. All right.

So his new music just has to get us up to recouping the 12th. That's if they're thinking about just going even all the way, which are definitely not. They want to get way more. But they already got 12, they already got like $8 million from the back catalog that's going to be supporting the artist. And also every time he drops, that eight going to go up, right?

So they have more of an incentive to sign an artist that's been with them than a new label who don't own their catalog at all. So that's why you don't see artists switching labels as much. Because the person who's going to offer you usually the most amount of money is the label that your catalog is already there. Now, why do people leave Atlantic? Because Meek's whole catalog is there. Young Boy's whole catalog is there. Kodak's whole catalog is there. I'll tell you the easy reason.

They got cheap. They went public. The executives trying to get their $100 million reportedly as bonuses. They went cheap. And Capital, who was going through a regime change as well, they were down to overspend. They said, all right, bitch. Shit. Y'all ain't about to get, we about to give young boy that $35, $40 million.

Young boy, come over here, nigger. You know a young boy did that same year? That's why I said, young boy made $100 million that year. young boy signed for 35 to 40 mil sold the parts of his of his of his of his his um his catalog that

Atlantic um that he had with Atlantic remember Atlantic wouldn't give it more he wouldn't they wouldn't give him you know he was trying to work with him to own more of a shit he sold that for like 20 to 30 million I think maybe like 30 million so add the 30 million dollar deals so basically 30 and 30 60 or it's like 35 and 35 it's like 70 and then I forgot what the other 30 came from

but yeah he did a couple other albums that he did through Atlantic in the waiting period that Atlantic paid him like $5 million per album on so remember when he was about to leave Atlantic but then he would just drop like a collab album type of shit or some random album but it would still be on Atlantic they were paying him $5 million each time bang bang bang bang and then he makes $100 million

that's why imagine being young boy yo nigga fuck house arrest of course I'm taking 3,000 pills and drinking half a gallon of lean. What the fuck are you going to tell me? I'm in $100 million. I'm making this shit. Also, here's the thing with a nigga like Future.

Future sold his catalog for $70 million. You know, a lot of people care about it's ownership, ownership, it's rush shit. You know, Future's the same. Nick, I'm going to drop 70 more albums. Future don't age. I know he's 41, but he don't age. He's not saying, oh, my God. Well, what am I going to do if I never own Beast Moden,

56 nights in in DS2. Fuck that. Let's go get, yo, we're going to make 10 more albums. Give me 70 million. You'll get that maybe later in life. I'll buy back or some dumb shit.

Or I could do the finesse who I record it over, even though that's not a thing necessary for rappers, but fuck it. Give me that money. I'm about to go get some shit, get some more bitches, and we're going to be good. That's how it works, people.

It's the game. Anyway, these are my favorite topics. I was like talking music business and shit. Damn. Let me go check my phone, man. Yo, how long I've been talking for? Three hours?

My family going to be like, yo, we're at the dinner, bro. I'm trying to see if they're going to be, yeah, I'm cooking, man, but the real food is in the kitchen. I got to go do that. All right, all. Yeah, man, we all see what's up with Drake.

Yo, I think, I'm hoping and pause on this, pause. I'm just hoping Drake and shooting this load too quick. Pause. And what I mean by that is that, yo, if I'm Drake, this is what I'm thinking. If I'm Drake, I think Universal lowballed and pause. But shit, after this whole thing, I would take that low ball offer because I need them in my corner.

Come back next year, drop the best albums, this and third. You know, he's still going to be number one artist, but you need to grind it back up to that. If you want that $600 million, I would have took the $300 million, dropped the most on deniable hits in the next like three months. and then, not three months, two to three years. Granted, obviously he's not thinking, he's probably not thinking like that because he's like, yo, damn, why the fuck am I going backwards,

not forwards? But yeah, just, yo, you want the label on your side. I just don't, I've never seen somebody go against the label and win. I ain't never seen that. Like, these labels really control all this shit, bro. So, shit. I'm hoping if, I'm hoping he wants to go to war with them now. And ironically, it times with this whole Kendrick shit,

because if not, they're going to cremate that nigga. And again, I love his music too much to not see that shit popping. But, and I still think, as I said, there's a long way to fall for him. But put it like this. You know, Jaru went from being one of the most lit to irrelevant. You'll never get Drake to irrelevant. But I think when it comes to Universal, their thing might be like, we'll get Superman to bleed.

Oh, yeah, I used to use Drake as like it was a verb, right? Like Drake is like, you know, people like the World Star Effect, like Drake, oh shit, you need that stimmy, right? I think they, you know, their thing might, oh, no, we, yeah, we ain't going to get that thing to go irrelevant, but we'll get him to bleed. Yeah, future sell 200, he sell 200. No more 400, buddy. No more 500, you'll never sniff a millie again. I think that's how they're probably looking at it, right? Somebody did ask me, they said, why doesn't Drake go independent?

And I do want to tell y'all, man, that independent shit sounds good, but y'all really have no idea how much these labels control. They control market share. And here's my prediction, too. If Drake ever went independent, I think Drake would be able to sell how much. I don't think he would do 300. I think you'd be a, if Kanye did like 100 indie, which is real indie. That's, I'm talking about a real indie.

so Kanye does 100 real indie By the way Major Kanye does 400 Or at least 300 Let's say 300 Drake Real indie Does 200

Like what you see Honestly never mind That's what that's what every project's going to be If he's true indie Now granted he's gonna make He's gonna make A fucking shit ton off that But

you know you know, a lot of what Drake is is the perception that he is the biggest, right? And the biggest is not like, you know, like he would do future numbers indie. Future would do like 70, like future would do meek numbers independent. Oh, let me get to Meek too,

because I see Meek say some shit, right? Didn't he block me? Let me get to the meke shit. Okay. So after all that happened, Meek Mill said, um, and you know,

You should probably log off if this is your first tweet. I tried to be humble and high off weed. Relax. Now I'm going to go insane with the dream. That's when somebody should take your phone. Okay. You know that cat meme when it's like, yo, enough posting. Cat meme.

Stop posting. Like, right here. It's time to stop posting, Cody. Stop and stop posting. This is what, as soon as he tweeted that, this should have it. Stop posting, bro. Stop it. Okay.

But it's all good. Smeek, Millie. and his stupidity will always amuse us and entertain us. Okay. So after he said that, you know, the lawsuits or whatever came out, he says, but Meek be tripping yard, right? Then he says, I went indie. My last two show offices in Finland, was in Finland, in Portugal, big festival.

I think that was, um, Portugal rolling loud. I think Meatmill was like a headliner there. Yep, Portugal, 223. Meek, I'm going to break your whole career down here. I'll be telling you, I'll be giving all these niggas free advice for you, just because, you know, you're my guy. You're my guy? I'm going to give it to you free of cost, okay?

So, I said, my last two show offers was in Finland and Portugal, big festival shows, but nothing after. I sold out the garden and went in the after expensive pain, and the media made it seem like I fell off terribly. Expensive pain, close to platinum. Okay, let me just break this down. Meek, this is what you keep saying. Now, they're slightly,

let me start a positive first because mom always say if you don't got nothing good to say don't say none at all and I definitely got some shit not good to say but I'm still going to talk let me start a positive first here's the thing what I will agree with meek is that um meek

part of the reason why you're irrelevant right now is because the music industry just like what they might be doing to drink at this point is saying we're done you're fired we're good yes usually when an artist

is losing significant traction after being at the heights of the heights, it means that the music industry is moving on, and that's usually some corporate calls. By the way, I'll disagree with you when you say it's personal, okay? You know, from what I've heard, you know, I'm going to just speak very, very candidly. Meek was a guy who used to like getting, you know, it says 200 occasion. Meek used to get over a quarter million dollars a show.

Meek, I'm going to be honest with you. right now should be like $60,000. People will book you. You just won't drop your price. That's the problem. And here's the problem for any rapper. And this is when they got to acknowledge. Rappers usually don't drop their price.

They won't tell their booking agents to drop their price because it's an ego hit. You used to get booked for $250,000, $300,000. You used to get all these type of things. They used to send a jet for you just to get you to the show. The jet was $40,000 that they would take off their whatever because they say you were that hot. When you cool down,

that price comes down. You got to acknowledge it. It's okay. By the way, if you ask me, love to Fetty, you know, Jersey legend. But I think one of the reasons Fetty got into towards, you know, drugs and stuff like that, people were still booking them,

but the booking fees weren't that high no more. It's coming down. And here's the thing about when people are getting booked for a certain amount. When you get booked for a quarter million for a year, kind of make you feel away when you got to get up out of your house, you got to go get on a commercial, Or they say, now, we don't have no jet for you. So you got to go pay that 20, 30,000, your damn self.

And then you are still rolling with the same entourage, and you have to basically go and you're going to work for one-tenth of what you usually get historically. That's just how it goes. Yes, the price comes down. A lot of artists are in denial about that. They don't want to talk about that. So, Meek, while part of what Meek is saying is true, yes, the industry definitely said you're done. 100%. But there's a part of it that you hurt yourself too.

You're in denial. You're delusional. The price for you was coming down. You didn't want to, like all these promoters talk. Brother, they booked you at Roland Loud Portugal. Do the math on that. Rolling Loud is in Miami and L.A. every year. They never had you headline there.

Do the math on that. So the only place they could convince themselves to get you the headline was Portugal. Everybody knows this theory. or not theory, but this idea. When you get cold in America, you're usually hot for another two years and overseas. That's the last place. Yes, you're right.

Overseas. In your mind, you couldn't understand it. You can fathom it. That's the problem. Artists don't have the understanding that they cool down. They think it's a conspiracy theory against them. Now, I'll give a little bit of credence to what Mika is saying because his fall from wherever his top was,

was very swift and quick and there are some people who basked in it. Not only me. Your label hated you. I work with people Atlantic. I've worked with them for years. They didn't like you. They say when your team came through, the way y'all talked to them wasn't copacetic. They say I moved like gangsters,

dealing with square professionals. But I could tell, they were telling the truth because the way you talk to everybody in your life, not only me, comes across as disrespectful, comes across as arrogant and here's the thing it's always and by the way Drake is going to see this too

the people your shit on your way up they can't wait for you to come back down you see all these media niggins getting that Drake right now they felt Drake shit on them did you all see the whole Joe Bunn thing we're gonna get to that man Drake doesn't fuck Joe Bunn's X

like long time ago 10 years ago Drake repained that nigga every single moment right now couldn't say nothing back man, he was the hottest artist in the game. Couldn't say it. Couldn't say, yo, that's a fucked up thing, bro. We used to smoke hook together. We fucked with each other.

Why would you do some petty shit like that to try to fuck my ex-girl? That's wild. That's crazy. But today, when Joe Button has one of the biggest podcasts, and when it looks like, oh, the media attack on Drake is in free fall, we're going to hear out Joe speaks then.

Again, the people you shit up on your way up, trust when you come back down, they're always there waiting for you. Meek, you have experienced that. I'm telling you that. There's nobody of a higher level ilk. And I'm speaking directly to Meek if you ever hears this. The people who you think are against you are not against you, right?

Like, you were on Atlantic. I showed the person who ran Atlantic, right? We're running Atlantic now. These are white guys. They don't care that much about you. Now, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I couldn't make it to where I'm talking about, say, like, Julie and them. I don't know necessarily the nature of your relationship with them, but they weren't

that fond of you neither. I don't know the exact reason there, but I heard that they weren't that fond of you either. There's a lot of rappers who I thought career would last longer, but their attitude killed it. One of them people keep saying it's jeezzy. Everybody keeps saying that. So a lot of it, you keep saying niggis is hating on you. No, you thought, let me tell you, one thing I realized about niggas like meek, and I think little baby too, but little baby's getting humble.

down to. Humble. A lot of them think the music industry is just them. 6-9 thought that too for a second to. It's just them. Like basically, y'all here to serve me, work for me, I'm the niggle who make the shit. No, you're not, you're a pawn.

So when you talk to the digital guy crazy, you talk to your label crazy, you realize you're just you're just a new horse running the Kentucky Derby. It's going to be a new horse. You're going to blow your ACL. You're going to have to get put down one day. And they're going to get a new horse.

Be careful who you talk to. Be careful how you act when you're in that position. So Meekmill, like a few of these other artists, they treated everybody as they were the person that created this ecosystem. Like music never existed before them. Here's the thing. And this is why I say, this is where you,

you could tell who are the assholes based on how quickly they fall off. Remember I said that. You could tell who the asseseses. assholes are based on how quickly they fall off because there's no safety nets there's not one person you see you see when you're not that hot you need them people to make them calls for you yo i know it would be like yeah yeah i need meek mill to headline yo whoa meat mill yo yo yo i know chill yo i need a favor do me a favor how long you knew me do me a favor i need me at this spot

we're rolling out this album i need this do me a favor those are the people who those are the safety nest that's going to, it's going to make it look a little bit different for the next two, three years. When you're an asshole, it looked like he went from 100 to zero. How the hell did he fall off in like three days? Trust. Trust me. So when Meeks says that, right?

When Meek says, you know, he's basically saying everything came crashing out quick. I went India and my last two offers were there. So first of all, you need to drop your price. I'm going to be honest with you. And I'm not disrespecting to him. this point. I don't think meek's ego is one that would build up. He's dropping music indie.

Meek right now needs to go on 2,000 to 2,500 tour dates. But that's the thing about also artists, the more they're in the game to get lazy. Meek has done an arena. Every year, Meek does one big arena show a year. Meek million friends Wells Fargo. Philly loves him. He's a Philly legend.

But if he ever really wants to get back hot, you know what he got to do? 2,500 venue. all throughout the country promoting his new album that's dropped in the indie Spend a little money on marketing A little money on radio Get one to be a little bit catchy

And go That's an ego hit Because these niggas start walking around Like they invented earth Y'all sell out Nick I did the garden You see even says it here Sold out the garden

Boy you ain't You're not old to sold out nothing You need to go do You need to come back to New York Do Terminal 5 three times You got to go build that audience back up again These guys get so lazy They're looking at I'm a big artist

Who's going to respect me as what it is In the music industry It ain't what you did for me back then It's what are you doing now There's no promoters call them You know what they call his booking agent Yeah we could put MEC on this You know what they try to put MEC on now

Smaller events How much you can pay him? 70,000, 60,000, still good money. Boy, I want 200. At least one 100 bands. All right, never mind. I got it. We'll get somebody else that the kids into.

We'll get boss man D-low. He charged half the price and he's going to bring more of the crowd for the kids. Got to humble yourself. Drake going to have to do that too a little bit. Got to understand. Drake, you don't shit on a bunch of people. You fucked the loud niggas girls. It is what it is.

He was having a good old time, piping everybody's bitch out. Oh, you like her? All right, I'm teabagging her tomorrow. I'm nutting on her face. I'm doing a fucking, I'm doing a fucking date with her in, um, Dodger Stadium. She's with me in Turks, nigg, I'm fucking her while the dolphins are, eh, yeah, all of that. Yeah.

Oh, that's your wife? Oh, man. Dunkin, dick in her pussy like, like it's a tea bag, man. It's, yeah, yeah. Great. Them niggas was tight. Somebody go ask DJ drama. I don't give a fuck if he said he's cool with Drake because they didn't piece it up.

Is he, is he silently like, oh, fucking about fucking time. Of course. Drake fucked this girl. Of course he's happy. Drake,

fuck Tahiri allegedly. Of course, Drake. Of course Joe is happy. Of course. Fuck. Like, I'll be happy too.

If Drake fought my child, I'll be like, of course. And by the way, I give these things credit. I'm going to tell why I give him credit. Because I ain't going to lie. When I don't like a person, it's hard for me to pretend. I can't do the pretending shit. If I was Joe, I could even be this impartial for this long.

I'd have been hating from the get-go. He was impartial for dumb long because he knew he had to. That nigger waited until now. You gotta remember Tahira was a chick he was hiding on the beds with Like he was hiding on the bed playing how to go see Come on, that's his joint That's his joint Let's be honest

Drake don't fuck some of these niggas Like executive niggas like love interest Come on So I get it And that is something Drake is going to have to answer for himself He has to take accountability for that A lot of those people again, I do think I'm the most powerful

nigga when it comes to media in the biggest voice But I'm the only voice who's saying let's give Drake a fair chance He's not that bad of a guy Joe Bunnan just came out and said Drake is a sack of shit Look So it's like I'm over here saying all right let's be fair Bruh look at this Jassit

Lying manipulative sack of shit What Let me tell you find the whole thing face adversity, adversity makes you change your mind and look for another plan. True. If any athlete, it's like saying LeBron James is stupid because he don't own a team or he don't own a league and he's taking a check. I think that, again, until you face some level of adverse situations, that's when

your brain changes and you got to think around it and circumvent it. I feel that. I just, I was thinking it was specific. This is his first time facing adversity in 15 years. And so now we see what he's doing at the face of adversity. or he's a selfish, lying, manipulative sack of shit who has made enemies for 15 years and now we're here at the fucking boiling point.

They both could be true. You've been behind the scenes being the biggest sack of shit you can possibly be. I'm not here to fucking play games with you, niggins. That's the backdrop. That's why when y'all be saying, I be sucking dick or whatever, I'm saying I don't got the head.

hatred for Drake that's the thing and by the way for everything y'all say about me and Drake maybe this is why I never met the nigga I was never smoking hookah with them in a VHS video and brought my girl around that he could say when he got mad at me well I'm fucking axe girl or I'm fucking his ex maybe if he did that I probably nigga you know how I get with niggas I don't fuck with maybe it would have been that he did it to Joe he did it to all these So that's what I'm saying, like, what y'all be thinking is me sucking dick is like me just, yeah, it's my favorite artist, but I kind of give him a fair shake. Yeah, he's not that bad. He ain't done nothing to me.

Same with six nine. Y, I'd be like, yo, how could you be friends with six nine hours? About six nights using you, blah, blah, blah. Six nine ain't tell on me and manipulating me into the streets. He ain't did business with me or robbed me of two million dollars or whatever. He ain't ever done it. None of that to me. I don't give niggas a chance.

Niggas, niggas know what it is out there. That's it. and he's fucking white Oh my God Yo Joe let the hate out brother Let it out And I'm not mad at Joe

Let it out I fuck with Drake But yo let me tell this Ever since Drake wrote this long ass Joe been waiting for his ass I ain't gonna allow of you Drake Um

Joe a hater This shit right here Ever since that nigga Drake wrote this shit nigga It's been smoke He said Joe you failed music, you left it behind to do what you're doing in this clip because this is what actually

pays your bills. For any artists watching this, just remember, you're watching a failure. Give their opinion on an idea of a recipe of success, a quitter that gives their opinion on how to achieve longevity. You switch careers because the things that pop in your brain had you broke living check to check and the raps you write had. 450 men showing up to your shows in a dusty and Michi jeans to screw up their face to mood music 29 and pretend you're their goat please to any artist that's doing what they feel is right

don't let these opinions affect the mindset after the fact this guy is the poster child of frustration and surrendering you're retired and we never hung up your jersey we don't even remember your number we know you for doing this you withdrew from rap not because you accomplish all you need to is because it wasn't working for you i never want anybody in the generations to think that the whole everybody's entitled to their own opinion is a real thing this is a man projected his own self-hate and the fact that i did and continue to do everything he's wanted to do for himself If you need to put it in simpler terms, I own a 767 jumbo jet.

He owns a modest home in the 973, which is an error code. And flies first class on special occasions. Drake, you knew this damn will come on. Come on. That nigger wanted to get it. Yo, Drake, you can't say this to a nigger after you fucked like his ex. And by the way, he never, I don't think this is me.

I live in here. I don't think he ever fuck Drake's like, no, no. I don't think Drake ever fucked. I don't think Tahiri wasn't with Joe. Like, they were probably in that little love and hip-hop fake relationship stage.

They weren't together, right? But it was his ex. But it's still one of those things like, yo, when I bring a girl into the game, any y'all niggas who fuck her, like, I'm gonna start looking at out weird. Why is you trying to fuck the girl

who, come on, what's up? Unless you're trying to play games. You know what I'm saying? And especially, you know, Drake had rapped about it too. He was just like,

um, I don't know, on one of them songs. Anyway. And he's Jewish. And he had too much dip on his chip. You have been behind the scenes, hitting niggas baby moms, send him money to niggas baby.

Yo, dog, you've been back and send him. Yo, my nigga Joe, go text me. He says, yo, I care cooking here. He's watching. He says, you're cooking. Just not on this point. Not on this point. Yo, Joe, hey, Joe, I'm with you, though.

I'm with you. I'm with you. Listen, Drake's my favorite. But honestly, I think everyone, like, even the people that want me to just kick his back in, bro, I don't have no, okay, maybe you can say, oh, yeah, I wanted some tickets, fine. But I don't have, like what Joe is saying, and this is why I said about the meek thing, yo, and I'll even say, I'll continue a little bit more even with the, yo, I talk to artists who they're all were like, I ain't going to lie, Drake and his people used to talk to us like,

like they were always going to be the niggins. to go back to some old shit I hear certain people say yo Drake would hold them for publishing like basically like big like he's hoeing street niggas like niggas he fucks with but like when it comes to the business

yo check this out man yo your Drake wants 95% of the publishing bro like this is the only way you could get a song out like somebody's some interesting story they're like yo they would be like what what the fuck like nah no no that's not no let's do business like this and they said this is how it would go back This will go back.

This is how I go back. They said Drake's people would hit them and be like, they said, I think we're doing you a favor. Like, I don't, I don't know if you want me to let the boy know that you're not rocking with him doing you a favor like this. Like that's how some of the artists were. And they're like, yo, what the fuck? Like they're looking at this like Drake is hoeing them.

Well, not Drake himself, but like Drake's people. just like, nigga, get up off that pub, nigga, get the fuck out of here, nigga, nigga. I'm giving you

a favor. Get the fuck out of it. You know what I'm saying? Hoh with them. So I ain't going to lie. Talk to some of them people. You know what they said? Oh,

Drake was kind of moving like he was going to run this shit forever. Yo, I talked to a nigga. I won't mention his name. A nigga universal. It hurt my heart. Like,

because I don't know if he was saying it for me to agree. But he was just like, yo, he's like, yo, it's about time we get some new blood in this, man. Y,

My nigga had his run, good shit, but like, yo, it's time for new blood, man. Like, bro, that nigga had his run. Good for him, but it's over now. Let's move on. And the whole time, I'm like, but that's my, you know what me? I'm like being like a Draco sexual. But that's my favorite rapper. What you mean?

What you mean? It's time for some new blood. What you mean? I don't know what to say. But that goes to the point, people. Man, niggas is looking at, bro. You, yo, y'all realize all this shit happening and now, we don't hear nobody saying, man, what do y'all talk about?

It's kind of like niggas is like, everybody's so preoccupied right now. Not one of these things is doing one show, putting out one song, but they act like they... No, I'm busy with some other shit over here. Hold on. I'm handing out turkeys in the hood. What? What you think about a jerk? Yo, hold on, man.

I'm going to get back to you. Hold on. Nobody got nothing to say. That does go to kind of... I'm going to be honest. It kind of goes to like what I've been hearing, bro. It's interesting of me hearing that, though, because I'm going to be honest with you,

as a fan who don't know those interpersonal relationships, I'm going to say, and this is why I think probably Drake doesn't also think, you know, people, whether it's a media personality now like Joe or anybody else might have, maybe a little bit of incentive, like, all right, nigger, you're getting,

You get in the seeds that you've sold. They've now come to fruition. It's because I think the majority of us fans is kind of like how Drake looks at it. Yo, I brought you on your first tour. I did this for you. I did this for you. I did this for you. While, you know, I've heard artists tell me or people connected to artists and I'm being very vague.

They're like, yo, bro, I'm going to be honest with you. So, and I've said, I think Drake has had these fake friendships. but like they're doubling down like yo bro now everything happening right now is because Drake's a fake nigga like this is direct words from like these he's a like how they're like your bro Drake's the type of guy

who will tell you yo you I'm gonna give you a feature and now because you've heard that and you're now kind of like posture whatever you got going on He's like every time he sees He's like, nah,

now the future soon come. Like, Like, he'll basically like string you alone like a hole type shit, right? Which is like, they consider that that's like fake. It's like, don't tell somebody you're going to do something.

Right. Don't kind of throw it in the air and don't do it. I mean, I still like, you know, I kind of defend that a little bit because I'm like, I'm like, bro,

like, y'all like, do stuff for y'all. Right? Like, come on. Like, even if he said he was going to do it, it's kind of the game.

yo, yo, we're gonna lock one in one time. All right, it might not get, you know, but some of these people after a while,

they're like, especially when they see other shit. Yo, damn, you did A, B, C, and D for this person or you've been blah, blah, blah, blah.

Look how quickly he ran to this other person that was popping. These are the little things I'd be hearing. I hear about the things about like, you know,

obviously like his actions behind the scenes that, you know, obviously include women, which is, you know, that's the point I back up on it because

I'm gonna be honest with you. A nigga who's your coworker that goes out of his way to fuck your bitch is a nigga really saying you ain't shit. So I can't even defend that one. But it is what it is. Anyway, let me keep rocking. Being the biggest sack

of shit you can possibly be I'm not here to fucking play games with you niggas. Niggas know what it is out there. That's it. And he's fucking white. and he's Jewish and he had too much dip on his

chip. You have been behind the scenes, hitting niggas baby moms send him money to niggas baby. Yo dog, you've been back and sending messages to this nigger's wife talking shit

about fucking, hey, but this nigger's mom died, hey, all that's cool, but where might be that, nigga? Somebody says, yo, act, you just hate meek, so you're unwilling to say they're kind of in the same position. They're not in the same position to me. Like, Meeks run legitimately, you know, obviously he didn't allegedly didn't treat certain

people like, you know, whatever the best, but it just came to an end. Like, he just didn't have the legs to keep going forward, right? And also, obviously, there's some, there's always label stuff, right? Which means, again, maybe his run would have seemingly lasted a little bit longer if he had taken a bad deal. Right? Because I do think that if Drake takes a bad deal now, I think things will look better, right?

But I don't think Drake is trying to take a bad deal. I think Drake is at the point where he's doing LeBron deals. Yo, give me the best of the situation. All right? And I'm going to brag about it about how I got $600 million and I just bought a spaceship or something shit, right? So I agree that's the similarity there. But with Drake,

Drake is making these allegations, like, to me, mid-negotiation. Like, Meek is telling us this shit after he's washed up, right? Which we're like, all right, cool, cool, cool. Like, it's harder to, like, kind of even conceive. Like, Drake, conceivably speaking, if he dropped the project, and I do have a suggestion for him. Like, you know what my suggestion is for Drake? I said it last stream.

You got to go ghost. Like, we don't, let's not see you till, let's not see you till May. Really, I want to say it almost to like June, July. But I think that's impossible because Drake would have to, seeing him is not dropping music. Seeing him is all this visible shit he does, right? And, and, which is ironic because none of this is an interview. But no more streams, no more gambling, stop posting to the story, no more duck lips, no more courts, no more dates with some random chick on Instagram.

No more Turks. We, there should, like, you got to, wherever Frank Ocean goes to hide, go there. The people will want, they'll miss the, especially going into next summer, they're going to miss the essence of what drink is. Come out with the best rollout, and he's also bad at this.

He don't do good rollouts. I hate all of his rollouts. A pregnant chick on a, album is not it for me. I don't like it. It's great music. I don't like the rollouts. I want to see effort. I want to see art. I want to see effort, art. I want to see something that looks like there's a plan, right? If he does that, I think he'll still sell four hundred, five hundred. Now, he's still got to have the labels behind him, which I don't know how to see, this will fucks everything up. Because I'm going to be honest with you. I don't think Drake sells

remotely near what we're used to him selling if Universal say fuck this nigga right so that has to take care of itself but that whole Kendrick shit I think that could resolve itself like bro Kendrick's gonna have a he's gonna run everything until

February is the Super Bowl give him two to three months after that and then people are going to look for new moments like they're not going to go with the same moment for the whole year they're going to look for new moments Yeah. But could he do that? Now, I also would like to offer, I think,

because Drake is this multimedia type of artist, again, what I'm being told is that he has $180 million contract with stake. My nigga, that's bigger than like every artist's record deal. Why the fuck would you sacrifice these other ancillary money opportunities that you're clearly getting to just go ghost and distant? Now, obviously, it's still a good sacrifice because you could, whatever people think you've lost, you would be able to garner back in my estimation. But that's him kind of like putting a lot of money to the side.

I think, you know, every time Drake pops out somewhere, he's picking up bags. He's a money getter. Could you go ghost? It's hard. We're going to see some chick torn to embassy. We're going to see somebody in Turks watching him on a jet ski. Like, we're going to see something. But that is a way that I've thought that, you know, because right now, I've been there when an internet hates you, bro.

I've been there. And if you fight, you end up being the person who's drowned in the pool. The more you go like this, you're drowned faster. Disappear. And when I mean disappear, bro. Whether it even includes don't talk to me. Who? whether includes no more responses or no comment to everything cool

just like you got to let the internet feel like they've won yeah yeah all right y'all got it you got one got it got it if y'all want to hear all this pro black shit going into next summer when y'nigas don't want to go smoke hookah and go to day parties fine okay even though that muster shit is pop it but still but eventually y'all know what i bring to the table And also another thing I don't like about the Jaru reference, Drake is a one of one and one he brings, a literal one of one.

The reason why, one of the reasons I think Drake's run has been that long, even when we think about rappers or whoever, the people to precede them or succeed them are people usually that operate in the same realm or have the same skill set. We haven't seen anybody that we have said,

oh, that could be a Drake-like person. I think for like 20 seconds, people thought it was chance, and then they realized that boy just loves his wife and he's out of here. And then people thought Kirkland bangs for a second but never moved after the first. Like, come on.

Like, there is no other person that hits the main checkboxes, and I'll tell you what the checkboxes are, could rap with the best in the game. That's already, like, 1% of the game, right? Could make R&B songs that women are in love with him

to a level that his music is a soundtrack to their life. That's another like 1 or 0.5%. There is nobody. You can't name nobody who could be. I think Drake would have at times, his run probably would have been shorter if there was somebody who could do what he do.

Somebody said, Uzi, Uzi can't rap with a 1% of rappers. Are you crazy thing? Chris Brown? Chris Brown can't rap with one. Come on, bro. Yo, I went to Drake's show. It's 80% women.

All these, half of the people that got opinions about this is niggas. Like, this is some hip-hop shit. We love it. Hip-op shit. I go to Drake show, there's 80-year-old women. Like, bro, these people have about to die. Like, yo, the demographic when you go to a Drake show, the people spending money that he's selling out the garden four or five times

Barclays, bro, like, it's not just this hip-hop audience. It's like really this, like, I would probably even surmise, there's more than half of Drake's, I'm not talking about core, not core, not core, not core. But his general audience, I would say there's over 50% of his audience that don't even know the weight

of what this rap battle has done to his perception. Because all they do know is how much they like his music and what their music means to him. And that's the only thing with the Jaru thing that's I hate when people say it. Like there are people that listen to Drake's music on a R&B level. Like it's the gospel, like his Bible.

Like for them, that's their jealousy back in whatever. Like nobody listens to goddamn Jaru like that. There's people who legitimately have listened to Drake rap introspectively about his come up like me that I've felt this nigger mirrored my life. the same way people love Jay Cole who the fuck does that with with Jaro? So that's why I can't

I can't accept when people say oh yeah he's about fall off like that and I can't see it can't see it In the messages to this nigger's wife Yeah Rob Wave is one of those guys too But Rod Wave

He's not a rapper like that You gotta remember to be on the number one spot The one characteristic I don't give a fuck What you could You could bring new skill sets To the game You can't replace one

you'll never ever be one of those top three top five guys if lyrically you can't compete with every rapper in the game that's one thing we have to love about hip-hop if you can't compete with lyrically with everybody in the game you'll never be that like it like plays even Travis Scott yeah we like him but we put him like in his like ancillary category you kind of rap of course he's rap but we ever talk about a Travis Scott rap compared to a Jake. No, never. That's one of the things, no matter what time is gone.

We listen to the niggins who shoulder rolled in, who's wearing all type of outfits. They're standing like this. But nothing ever changes when it comes to. That lyrical ability to be able to convey your thoughts in a very artistic lyrical manner that doesn't just rely on songmaking ability or auto-tune or something like that.

That's all. always respected. It's never changed. Somebody said, Tori Lane's locked up. And also, here's the thing. Tori Lane's would compare to Drake, except here's the thing. There's nothing that I think the fans think

that Tori does that's very different than what Drake has done, that distinguish him, or that they think he's done anything better than Drake. That's why it's harder for him to compete. Like, put it like this. If a podcaster is modeling himself after Joe he's not going to get bigger than Joe Button.

How could he? If the audience is saying, well, yeah, you give us a Joe Button feel. You make us, like, feel like that energy of commentary that he gives, but you don't do something very new or very different or way better than Joe, you're not going to pass him. That's just what it is, right? Let me finish playing this. Talking shit about fucking, hey, but this nigger's mom died,

Hey, all that's cool, but where might be that, I don't give a fuck that your mom died. Doug, this nigger's been a sack of shit behind the scenes. Okay. And I'll expound upon on that a little bit. So, so Joe is kind of alluding to this, the metro booming situation. Here is what I've heard about it.

I felt like I've been a little bit tight-lipped pause about that whole situation and what I've heard about it. Okay. The story goes that, Drake was either trying to get on a record or trying to get this beat to finish up a project. Metro's mother had just passed away, right? He never said fuck Metro's mom and nothing like that. But I think he was a little bit pushy, allegedly.

Like he was just like, yo, bro, because you send me that beat, bro, because you said me that beat, yo, bro. And Metro was just like out of it, just like fucking, like, destroyed. Like his mom passed, right? Now, I don't know the timeline of like it was two days after. Is it two months? He just wasn't in that type of mode. And from what I was told, it was just that when it came to Metro, he looked at it like, yo, dog, like, you know, this dude's like not human.

Like, he lacks, like, that type of, um, that type of humanity to, to understand why music might not be at the top of my mind right now, right? Like, he's a machine almost, right? Which I guess some of you guys might appreciate because you like when Drake produces music. But for Metro, it came off insensitive. Like, yo, you know, this. This dude really just, this guy is just like really just insensitive, just like an asshole type shit, right? And I think with the backdrop of what he was going through, he felt offended.

Now, what happened afterwards, it appears that either Drake didn't get that and either quickly apologize or be like, oh, my bad, I'm, I don't know, I don't know if that happened. But that's where it stems from. So it wasn't over no girl. It was literally over Drake. It was a beat then. It was like, yo, I'm trying to get on the song. And by the way, now what I'm thinking about, I don't know if that song, Trans.

So maybe that's the reason why he stood on not putting Drake on trans. You know what I mean? But from what happened, it was like Metro felt away that Drake seemingly was a little bit pushy and insensitive. And from what was said to me, it was like, yo, Metro's thoughts were, yo, bro, this dude is not even like human, bro. Like, this dude don't have like that human instinct of my dude, my mom died. Like, bro, fuck music right now.

You know what I'm saying? And again, you know, I don't know too much other than that. So I don't want you to take what you've heard from me and be like, okay, that's end all, B or because here's the thing. It could be some situation where Drake also, maybe it was two months after or three months. He's not thinking that maybe Metro is still in a place where he's not into music or he's not trying to do whatever with music. right or it could have been two days i don't know but apparently that's where the root of their issue is right the root of their issue is that which by the way um i'm glad that it's not over no female stuff but but obviously metro you you've seen how metro's been especially you know post

his mother passing so i can understand him feel in the way about that i get it i get it and by way i've been actually surprised that they haven't rectified that right like i mean shit i don't think drinks an asshole like that. It's like, yo, if I tell you, bro, like, bro, you're acting a little bit pushy over a beat and my mom just passed away and I wasn't in that type of mood right now and bro, like, I just, shit, I was hoping if you're reaching out, you're reaching out for condoneses or something like that. Instead, you're like, where's the beat? Where's the beat? Yeah, whatever, whatever. Yeah, I felt away. Right? Like, like, you, like, you just didn't give a fuck. Okay. I would hope two men who's done, who's done. amazing music together. And I would imagine, even if they were best of friends,

they could, you know, kind of reasonably see, understanding to this point, they'll be able to like, like actually talk about it. By the way, that's why I think you see Metro has said, you know, when Metro had spoke about this before, Metro said, let me see, Metro booming, Drake, reason, beef.

He said it wouldn't make both of us look. He said, when he first tweeted about it, they wouldn't make both of us look good. Right? Or it's a, here we go. Where's the thing here? All right.

One time somebody says, are you and Drake seriously? Even if it's not a deep, he says not that deep. And I think it addressed it somewhere else where he was just like, this is when he directly started tweeting at Drake, when the Drake thing just happened.

Hold on. That's when Drake said, Metro shut your ass up and make some drums. Metro Bullman Drake embarrassed. Let's see. Okay Is it this? All right, here we go.

He says, Now go make another song Tell him more lies Because we both know why You can't tell everyone Why I don't fuck with you That wouldn't be good to look for For a look either for you

So I'm going to spare us both with that So that's I guess, okay The drum thing was laughable So I'm going to let it slide But what we're not going to do Is spread lies And have my loved ones involved

I think he has a girlfriend Or something like that So I guess you know, alluding to you fucking his girl or something like that or saying, whatever is, you know, he's going to say, nah, that ain't it, right? Clearly because he has a girl.

Nobody ever hit my girl. Yeah, and by the way, from even what I've heard, you know, none of this is direct sources just through great minds. Yeah, nobody fucked Metro's girl. Like, yeah, he has a long time girl, but all these things cheat. Like, they got bad side chase.

Like, Metro got like five, six girls in LA. Fuck all of me, you know what I mean? Yeah, these guys are sharing girls, right? And then when you're showing, sharing a girl with another nigger, because these are just, these are just industry harlots, just horse that's fucking every nigga, right?

Sometimes niggas end up pillow talking to them, right? Like, yo, because they're complaining about what's going on in their life or whatever, you know what I mean? And then other people here, like, yo, yeah, hang on line.

When I was around Metro, he was talking shit about you, blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. So, I don't think nobody hit his girl. Yeah, nobody hit his girl, but one of his side chicks? Of course.

I mean, I told him. I told you, I think I was fucking a chick that Metro was fucking, like a couple years ago in LA. Like, probably like, how many years ago, like four years ago? Something like that, like, come on. Like, Metro, come on, stop it. Anyway, he says, I'm lame, but, and by the way, again, not his main girl. Like, I don't know how long as, everybody cheats.

What the fuck? Get over it. He says, I'm lame, but the first week after, like that, you tried to block it at radio. I've been sitting on this email for about a month now. Oh, you ain't liked that record. And, by the way, I do think if you looked at that email, you don't say that Drake did that.

It said that Republic was saying to futures label, Epic. Republic is universal, as I've said. Epic is Sony. When you do a collab album, they almost usually create almost an addendum or like a new deal, like a one-off record deal, that kind of allows you to work with this new artist

in a joint perspective. and then what gets hammered out is who owns what? Because remember, these are two competing record labels. How do they split it? And then how do they split the administration of rights? So it looks like Republic's people, their PR or radio, people are saying, yo, the rights to distribute like that as a single to radio, we have it. You can't do it.

So I get it that y'all were trying to do it, but we have to do it. right and then when we get to realize who is metro boom and sign too Metro's on on Republic you get what I'm saying he's on Republic who's future signed to epic which is under um Sony so yeah that conversation

yeah that's Metro's own label saying that I think Metro back then was thinking wait why y'all trying to stop the other because remember They were trying to promote type shit at first, right? So type shit was the promoted record. They picked that before the album came out. And then like that jumps out crazy.

So they're trying to send like that to radio before it becomes the focus record. And, you know, I would imagine Republicans saying, you know, we just spent some money on type shit. What the fuck? Right? All of that was on the same album, right? We don't trust you. I think type shit was like the first single.

So they're probably looking like, yo, we're spending money promoting. Was it type shit? Yeah, we're spending money promoting type shit. Right? We're spending money promoting this. And then y'all are talking about sending another record. Right?

Because this was like the second single or whatever it was or third or whatever it was. But yeah, that's what I think it was. But Metro tweeted it out. Like it was Drake. Drake blocking it because he's on the same label with Drake. But here's a thing. And,

and, you know, even respectfully, but I'm going to say a point in Drake's favor and not in Drake's favor too. If Drake is a big dog at Republic, if you think they could stop your single from going out, you know they could have just stopped you from doing the album, right, Metro? They could have stopped you from doing the album, right? And,

um, similarly with, with how Drake is looking at things. Right? If you're saying, you know, I know you're saying with you, why would Republic, remember Republic don't get money off of,

of a future, they get money off of Metro and you. Why would they do a joint album with a nigger not on their label and then put the sabotage record of their biggest artist on a collab joint album with another op

label. That don't make sense neither. It's a lot of shit don't make sense. Right. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Is that the only thing? Let me finish. Listen to this. And because he got fans and had Lucian, everybody just gets to turn the blind eye. The blind eye days are done. That's done with now. I don't want to hear none of that shit now. Now we've seen the hand. You've seen their hand. What's it going to be? And what are you going to do. That's what it is.

He's showing you. He's showing you who he is. I came in here and asked y'all. It was the last Drake single that really popped off. I know that everybody just think I'm a hater, but I'm a student of this shit. And to be that, you got to look at what's going on with Drake. And y'all told me the Sizzar and Sexy Red record was the one. And that answer was unacceptable for me because to me, that record came and went. There was no legs. And when there's no legs, there's no money. When there's no legs, when the record that should be playing a little longer ain't getting burned like that, I don't remember him having a Singleton's God's plan.

And again, it's a scene why, listen, I'm fine out all type of shit. Like, for example, chat, look at this, bro. Look at this. And again, you know, I think us fans don't be knowing certain shit, but, you know, some of these things, I think only Drake could answer it, right? Like, Drake and Rick Ross. I want these two to make music so bad. It almost hurts.

I really like these two making music. I like Rick Ross. I like Drake. Right? You know why allegedly they got into it or not got into it, but like really while Ross don't fuck with Drake. It's kind of like the same thing with, I told you other rappers told me they're like,

yo, Drake would string us on for endless amount of time. Even we'll push our album back. Because he'd be like, nah, send me a song. We send him a song. We don't get it. You don't get it. You don't want to clear it. Oh, we don't want to drop it.

Oh, the boy doesn't want to put this out right now. The boy, like, you know, every time people tell me some shit, they're like, they say that's how Drake people talk to them. The boy doesn't want to do that right now, the boy. And they're like, what the fuck? They're like, yo, we're just party. We're just chilling.

But the Drake Rick Ross thingy, right? Like, look at this. Like, supposedly Grammy nominated song. Grammy nominated song, Go, Roses. Right? Go roses Right If you ever watch the video

Drake's verse is not in the video at all Remember this song got nominated for a Grammy Right But do I love this song Like right Drake's verse is not in here at all Drake is not in the video either Now you gotta imagine also rappers be watching shit too

If sexy red got got to do anything. Drake is there in a heartbeat. Drake is, you know, and again, you know, we could also make the, the argument to say,

Drake is gonna, like, he's one man. What more could he fucking do? Like, you know, could be ever, but like, you know,

people are realizing this for a shit. Drake does a song, whatever, whatever. Video time. Drake ghosting. Drake ain't in the video. The video gets cut,

right? The video gets cut without Drake's in it at all and also gets cut with them editing out Drake's part. Okay? Why is that? It's then reported, or not reported, not mean, but I hear through the great boss,

Drake got in his feelings with Rick Ross. Why? Rick Ross Drops Mayback 6 Who's featured on it Is it 6? No, no, that's 4 Mayback 6

Rick Ross, who's featured? Mayback Music 6 You see this name right here? Push your T. So push your T's on it. Drake's like, I'm cool. Feel me? So because Drake does this, allegedly,

Drake goes for the whole video for the other joint. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so puts push a tea here. Ross, I don't think Ross is playing no politics. But now Ross does that. Ain't no Drake for the video. You got imagine, Ross is feeling away. He got to feel away. Yo, yo, go rose is a, yo, go rose is nominated, bro. Go Rose is nominate. Nominated for a Grammy, my nigga. Best rap song of year. Right? Best rap song of year. If you look at the album, by the way this album was fire too

poor to Miami too is this when he just left is when he just left was this his last song on epic or the one he just got there on because this is what was good but you're gonna feel away

the biggest song on the album Gold Roses that got that got that got um um that got a Drake on it you shoot the video

the nigga ghost you and by the way I don't think the push a T version of this song was ever on. I don't think that shit was ever on the album, was it? Oh, that was never even on the album. It's on his YouTube, though.

So when did Drake do this? I mean, uh, let's, Oh, Out of space. Money, oh. Hey, the exclusive.

Any blemish on my past. Huh. Wait, did the push your tea, this Drake? Hold on. You know you always got to look at that. Push a tea.

Mayback music, lyrics. but allegedly this is why Drake didn't do it Let's see This must have been a remix Because ain't no way Pusherty was on a record With Wayne, right?

Hell now Oh, this is the extended What a year, true colors exposed Oh, he's rapping Pretty much an aftermath of the whole Drake, his beef with Drake Or Drake beef of Kanye Where they said you're hiding in a child

Oh, okay, that always makes sense Crowns on clowns It's like you colored your nose We talk in skill set or popularity polls. When you speak truth to power, your popularity grows. Peers switch gears out of relevance or fear when their name's not as hot who want to stand near. All of you niggas weird, how can you compare? When you say you've been rich, we need that shit like veneers for every $100,000 chain I see on a thousand-thousin'er neck. I dare not to be. Young nigger, old nigger, you all the same to me.

Just one slick tweet from a trend in dangerously. Rare form. airborne since clearborn Been fly like a runway Was clear for him White wedding Vogue had the exclusive Any blemish on my past was prostitution Sit back and let them draw their own conclusion A picture's worth a thousand words

Mr. Houston You wonder why cocaine's up in every song Remember Drake had said that Go make up some rhymes about like You know selling weight or whatever You basically say you ain't living You witness for your folks bad right When your music fell cocaine righted every wrong

white Ferrari, bow Derek. But inside black, you stand a bow-legged. Go home and go get it. Your Miami rental cars are sleeping in my garage, motherfuckers. Yeah, he kind of does sneak this Drake on that a little bit. Okay, I could see. Okay. All right, maybe that's what it was.

Yeah, but I don't look at people like Ross and like Khalid. Those are like, to me, the connoisseurs of collaborations, right? I don't look at that. Yeah, well, I guess I can understand Drake's point, too. My nigga, like, you're on your feet. featured single bro you can't I have my op on your extended version of the song dissing me fuck out of here right I guess I guess hmm now um now it was a whole push of tea and young thug thing that happened what was their beef about yeah yeah yes

here we go May bad music six 2019 Rick Raw song featuring John Legend and Wayne the track appeared on Port of Miami a leaked version features an additional verse from Pusha T. In the leaked verse, Pusha addresses Drake. Okay. I'm batting a hundred over here, chat. Chat, this is exactly what I heard happen, bro. So, listen, y'all can source me if y'all won't, but this is facts. When reached out by Pitchfork, a representative for Pop Smokey State

offered a note, whatever, whatever, whatever. What? And then somehow, why did a young thug jump in? And then Pusha T respond to thugs saying, number one, don't feel bad. Nobody knew what the verse was about. the label heads that stopped it didn't know they only assumed because he told them

the same way he told about Rick Ross Mayback 6 verse yeah the person who told me to say the reason why Ross and Drake been be even been in front of our face the whole time okay it has been let me go take a piss

oh man I'm missing Thanksgiving for this shit so push it this saying hold up I promise I wash my hands promise I did look It's a little wet pause. All right. Okay, so now this makes sense. Okay, damn.

This whole time. I told you I got the best sources in the world, chat. So Pusha T admits, I guess even the young thought was going back and forth over something. And I guess they're saying nobody knew whatever. They said they only assumed because he told him, I guess that he's Drake. They're saying Drake had told the labels to either remove or change a verse or something.

And he said he did the same thing that he did. about the Ross Mayback 6 verse. And if you'll tell a record executives, oh, so this is why these niggas be mad at drink. If you'll tell a record executive about rap verses, God only knows what he'll tell them. I don't deal in police work. Police rappers or police niggas.

What the fuck? This is July 7th, 2020. Oh, my God. Oh, fuck. So now we're getting it. So apparently, maybe Drake hollered at the labels to make sure push a T wasn't on

that Mayback 6 verse because he was dissing Drake and then Drake is kind of tight at Ross because he would even allow it and he don't do Gold Roses the video. They cut the video, cut Drake's part out, they also do the video without it.

And then basically, so he probably would be feeling away. I don't know if the French thing is true. I don't know if that French thing is true because, you know, Ross did say, yo, you did some other weird stuff to French. You wouldn't clear his song, right? And now when, you know, it was the right time,

Ross is like, fuck that. Let me air it out. That's crazy. No fucking way. Yeah, that's what Drake did the future back in the day, huh? Yeah, yo, the way I was explained to me, Yo, they said it's not like, yo, they basically said everything was prepared. Like Drake was booked to be.

Yo, Drake fucked up. I guess fucked up. Well, you know, Drake, Drake is feeling a certain type of way, man. Like, yo, the niggas snitch on me having a son. Like, I was trying to keep it low. Gold, road. Dude, that's my joint. Yo, if this is the reason, I'm going to lie to you as much as I love Drake and Ross together.

if arguably their best song is the reason they never collab again. Okay, it'll make a little bit better. It'll make it better for me because I thought they were beefing over a girl. I was going to be hurt. I'm like, yo, fuck these holes. Get back in the studio. So supposedly Drake was booked to be at Gold Rose's music. He was supposed to be in a video.

Like, nigga, like he's supposed to be in a video. Ross is there. You could imagine Ross. I imagine Ross using one of the phones from the hustling video. Call and Drake. Like, Oh. Where you at Aubrey?

White boy. Where are you at? Let me stop. Rick Ross. What's the name of the video? Is it hustling? The one way he jumps off the bridge. Not.

I imagine him of one of the big-ass phones. No, no, it's not hustling. It's not hustling. What's the other video? What's the other fucking video? Or am I thinking about we taking over? Somebody jumps off the bridge or something like that. Yeah.

I was a badge of her cross. Where you at Aubrey? We're shooting the second verse. It's speeding? All right, that's fucked up. That's fucked up. That's fucked up. I'm sure they had a conversation, though.

Right? I'm pretty sure they had a conversation, though. the conversation, they would have to. I'm wondering if Drake, like, like, again, I think us as fans, we do look at things like, yo, bro, he's one man. You know, you know, Young Thug most famously said, Drake is like all of our OGs. Like, he's basically means he's been doing favors and helping everybody out. These other niggas don't do shit.

Like, we just seen, you know, everybody's giving Kendrick Lamar credit for putting on like eight unknown artists on his album. Drake been doing this shit all his career. So maybe I think fans look at it like, all right, yeah, maybe he did fuck up or like, you know, he, you know, he iced you out here or like he didn't, you know, he didn't show up to this thing. But bro, like, he has a good track record. He's helping people out. He's trying to do the right thing, right? Which I would imagine if that's the thinking, we would think that Drake would hit these guys up and like, yo, my bet I missed the video shoot, bro.

Like, I was just recording in the studio with CISA for like 10 years and like, yo, I overslept. I couldn't make the flight. My bed I didn't make it down to Miami to do the goal road this video. I'm sorry, my brother. Like, yo, could we do another day? Let's figure it out. Let's figure it out. Right?

I would imagine like that. These guys have made millions of dollars together. I would imagine it would be like that. Right? So, what's to play speeding? Speed in Rick Ross. Yeah, this is the one. Speeding.

Yeah, this is I see Rick Rose when you bought a cold drink. Oh. Jersey. Like, yeah, come on. One thing for sure, two things are certain. You know what Cali would have done. Callet, no, yo, if Drake don't show up to the music video shoot, Calid's bringing the music video shoot to Drake.

That's a fact. You know, he said, I like what Drake like. Like, you know, Drake, I'm like, yo, you know, Crotie, I'm stuck in Toronto. They're not letting me through the border. I know I'm usually border the guy, but they're not letting the Crotie through. Broski.

You know, you know what Cali going to be? I'll be right there, Drake. We the best. Oh, man. I can imagine Ross saying, all right, man. No more club live for that nigga Drizzie, man. Has Drake been to club live since?

Oh, no, he was there. Holy shit. Yo, chat. They're waiting for me at Thanksgiving, but I can't leave, bro. I can't leave. Let me see, let me see. Y'all ever heard this dirt right here?

Y'all, y'all fuck with Rick Ross's new artist. He got his new artist, right? He got his new artist. I think, is this a music video? I got sent? No, no, there's a video. He got his new artist named Meno Breeze. The nigga's a low-key going up type shit.

Nah, I can't even lie. Where's the video? Is this a video? This is only a lyric video. All right, hold on. Let's do the litter video. Apparently Ross was rapping about some shit on here. Here we go.

Okay, the type of niggil always got some paper Go to spend a block is this, you know, Breeze nigger from um, where you from? From like Broward County or he's from Dade County Let's try to get to Rose part. I'm the type of nigger, the painter honey shivers. Oh shit, we got Roselle on here. Names will never die. There we go.

Oh, that's what I'm told my. Oh, window poking. On the type of nigger, always got some paper. Okay. Go to the span of block. Let's see what type of nigger raw is. I'm the type of nigger. Streaming fucking feelings.

Uh-huh. 50 million mansion pillars with the tallest sillings. Uh-huh. I'm the type of nigger. Every day I'm going viral. Okay. They think I'm selling pie. The youngest nigga on the island.

I'm the type of nigger. I own 60 watches. I leave them in the boxes like they do her rachies. Certain type of niggas who names will never die. We killing every time. I lead them lambs, petrified. Once you cross the line, ain't nothing. We can wrecked.

To fight both flipping fish for lays to give my niggins ex the fries This is great I'm the type of nigger who won't wear no lotion I'm gonna say some shit hold on Apparently he says of shit hold on With my weapon why the pistol smoke I'm the type of nigger the painter honey shavis I'll paint my shit like yo shit just to be so petty

Been the type of nigger who mine on the money if he's stepping out of line he dying on the sun no on the type and never oh somebody told me he had said some shit about this on it all right man all right all right who else who else

um who else um who else has who else has we don't understand why. I'm gonna figure out all these beefs. Oh, man. Now Drake and Rick Ross hurt my heart, man. Damn.

Drake can't show up to the goal, the Gold Rose's video because Rick Ross had push a T on the record. And Rick Rose was dissing him. Oh, shit. It said that record was cleared when Drake found out it was taken off.

Oh! Oh, they said the reason to push a t-shirt wasn't on the album? They said the record was clear. Drake found out, and the label then forced it to be taken off the album. But some of the albums were pressed up as physicals, and that's how the push-a-t-t-shirt got out. So they say Drake had that label, take off push-a-tie's verse off. Oh, shit.

apparently what is it is it is a ross kind of alludes to it here oh apparently that's also kind of alluding to the drink me i'm the type of niggins they do her once you cross the line ain't nothing we can rectify oh apparently that's that's also kind of alluding to the drake shit and apparently they've collapse since then, but none of them have been on Ross's projects. It's been on like some Drake shit. That's kind of interesting. Oh, no, this is get deep. So the label heads that stopped it didn't even know.

Oh. So I'm hearing that Pusha T found out because the labels, the label heads that stopped it, they previously approved it. So they approved Pusha Beat on the record until Drake found out. they had to take it back and they didn't know what it was behind that's interesting

really oh and this thing was about shortly after the arrival of pop smokes posth album blah blah apparently there was features from these and Gunna Young Thug and Pusha Tee and on Instagram Stephen Victor appeared to blame the absence of

paranoia from the album on a glitch as hypebeats notes Pusha appears to address Drake with paranoia lyrics. Pusha T. allegedly raps on the alleged track. You know reality bites. His chest's not checkers.

Those empty threats only sound good on your records. If the patwa is not followed by a blocker, it's like Mark for Death screw face without the chopper. Let him rush the stage. When you made like Sinatra, only to hide the blade flying back through La Gorgia, I might even buy a home out in Mississauga, which is a place in Canada.

Oh, shit. Yo, that's crazy. If Drake had that much power? Oh, so, so young thug has said this. I don't respect the push a T verse on the song with me and Gunna, because I don't have nothing to do with y'all beef, nor does Gunna.

And if I knew that was about him, meaning if he knew that was about Drake, I would have made changes on our behalf. This rapper shit. it's so gay. So basically young thug was basically saying, yo, why the fuck is Push a T on a song with me and Gunner?

Dissing Drake. Did that song come out? Paranoia. Paranoia. Pop Smoke. Oh, shit. Oh, they took off Pusher T. Oh, shit.

Wait, Drake took that nigga off of, A, a pop spokesman? That's gangster. Yo, hey, this kind of makes you feel a little bit less bad for Drake. Yo, Drake, when, nigger, if you had that much power, it's hard for us to feel bad for you, bro. If you had, you see, you see, Drake was bullying niggas that wasn't on his caliber. Drake was like, fuck that, Nick, get his album.

Yeah. You run into Kendrick. Oh, fuck. But I know Drake was bullied and shit like that. Yo, Drake was like, man, yo, if pusha gets on anybody's album dissing me, nigga? It's war! I don't know. I don't know what he said, but if that's it, I'm like, yeah, that's fire.

Yo, Drake, you know, that's crazy because he even diss Stephen Victor. Didn't he diss Stephen Victor, too? Dupy Freestyle. By the way, one of the greatest diss songs of all time. I don't care what y'all say. Yo, he says, Don't know why the fuck you niggins listen to Denim or Steve Must have your infrared wrong, now you're headed a beam.

Y'all is spitting image or whatever jealousy breeze. Don't push me when I'm in album mode. You're not even top five as far as your label talent goes. You send shots, well, I got to challenge those. But I bring calico to the Alamo. Oh, man, he went crazy there. Wow. Yo, Drake had that much power, bro?

He was taking his songs off albums? I ain't going to lie I never heard about Drake Like using his power like that Like I heard about I heard some artists Like I could tell they were disgruntil Like I guess Drake hold them

Like for publishing But I ain't know Drake was saying Yo take push off that fucking song Immediately nigga Nicker I don't care if it's even pot of smoke album after death Get that nigga's song

Get that nigga first of that fucking album And clearly that must have been a thing Because young thug spoke out about it Right? Young thug Wow, young thug was Oh, there's a video Hold on

First of all, your verse seven days If you know what I mean Week Now thug was running for Thug was wrong for, he was round for Aubrey Oh shit He was round for Aubrey Oh, I'll follow a thug a real one

I'm up for a week Second of all You already didn't have got them You already went crazy The first time so you ain't even got it Ain't them but a sucker going on double tapes and triple tapes and basically saying yo

you already did the beef already why are you still dissing the nigger on the song that other niggas on that we just trying to make music so you ain't even got it ain't nothing but a sucker going on double tapes and triple tapes and quadruplates

you should have just got all led out on the first song you put the first song got you ain't even had to do all that on those nothing you just feel like you weren't going to get enough views on your own shit so you came and put some boys shit on a whole other a nigga who's

resting in peace of music. Oh. Trying to fuck up a nigga a whole vibe. Because you feel like, but it's the perfect platform. Thug, Gunna, and Pop Smote. This is the perfect platform to go at this nigga ass. This is the perfect song

to do it on. Why the fuck you can do that shit on your own song, nigga? Yeah, and this album came out, what year? 2020. You got to remember Drake and Thugger thugging them, they locked in. Drake Thugger baby gunna they're locked in you know drake jake tapped in with

Atlanta like real talk come on now oh okay now he's making all sense man yo says drake was bullying shit I ain't gonna lie to drink if he was bullying niggas I don't know if we can feel bad if you're getting bullied like that's kind of what it is though right like if you tell himiggis yo you can't put this song this verse song this uh this whatever whatever I'm hoping it's not situation where it's like nah don't put out nobody's gonna bully Kendrick shit like Kendrick is a artist. He's not on your level, but he's right there.

How about you a fuck about no, Pusher T? Like, respectfully. What I mean? Like, if Puscher says he wants to do A and you're Drake and you said, yo, you better not put that on there. They're going to be like, Drake doesn't like it. If Kendrick wants to do A and you say you don't like it, they're putting that shit on there.

They're going to be like, well, deal with it, nigger. Hmm. So now I'm getting the info. They said Drake tried a little boy Rick Ross. Then I'm getting told. They said Rick Ross gave Drake a song for CLB. Drake's CLB. They said, whatever song on there, Ross gave him that song.

Apparently he's featured on that song too. Let me look. Ross. Is Ross featured on that? What song is it? You only live twice. He said, oh, I'm hearing that. I'm hearing that.

Ross, you know? Yeah, Ross. bless them with that. But they say you don't see no more collabs after that. Holy shit. Yeah, Drake, we gotta get you in Ross going back cool. No, yo, listen, I'm gonna sit both of them down. I'm playing.

I can't do that. But Rosson, don't call him white boy no more. Don't talk about my niggas nose. And Drake, you gotta start, like, showing up the video shoots, okay? And at least, I gotta be honest. If I don't want you to feature, This is music, right?

Everybody got their own pockets, their own families. If I don't want you to feature my biggest app, I should be like, yo, bro, I'm, yo, don't put that fuck,

nigga push a T on there, nigga, I'm gonna give you a verse. That's fire. That's valid. That's valid. But don't be like, yo,

I'm gonna use the labels to stop you from putting push a tea on the record. And then I'm gonna use the labels to stop Rick Rawls, even though, I don't know, but someone said, I'm not doing Thanksgiving.

Not for real, right? Now, my mom is blowing my phone up, man. My mama is blowing my phone up. Oh, my God. Okay, one last thing. One last thing. All right. I guess I got to be a little bit normal today, right?

Yo, fuck Thanksgiving, man. I'm telling you what's the problem? All right? All, never mind. I got to go show face the family, right? Hold on. Give me one more second. Looking. I'm looking. Give me one second. Figuring the bitch.

Nigger, I'm tight as shit now, nigga. Oh, I'm going to have to holl that my nigga, Drake, man. This shit's getting out of fucking hand, bro. This is getting... I'm going to hollet at Drake, bro. I ain't going to hold you, bro. I told you how that fucking lawsuit was just fucking worst timing. Brah! Fuck, nigga Kendrick now expected to sell $3.25. bro

look just off of that shit Kendrick jumped from 291 projected to 325 yo Drake you better you better give that nigga invoice fuck what Universal owe you that nigga owe you some bread the nigga was gonna sell under 300

Drake fans were like oh thank you oh man we thought that shit was going to sell 600K okay at least is under 300 yeah he didn't even come close to for all the dogs I bet man Arbery's a goat We be so good.

Let this nigga have this couple months. Drake drops the lawsuit, promotes the fuck out of everything Kendra got going on because now it's Kendra, Kendra, Kendrick, Kendrick. This thing is now about a cell 325. God damn it. What the fuck? I got to teach Drake what I do when I don't like niggas and they're dropping.

Yo, when Meek was dropping, yo, I couldn't say a word. I couldn't say a tweet. I was acting like I don't see nothing going on. No one else. The moment the first week sales was in, Nick, I was popping all type of shit, nigga. Me, I ignore a op till the first week's sales come in. Then I start basking in your failure.

I'm not going to tweet out your shit second day in. No, fuck. Hell no. Crazy? I'm not a dummy. I'm trying to hope you fail. I ain't trying to help you win. Oh, fuck.

Yo, I got to tell Drake, no, do nothing more this. Well, actually, well, the tracking week ends today, so it doesn't matter. I was going to say, you got to keep this fucking a little bit. poor hundred. It sounds like hate, but yo, yo, us Drake fans need need a win. We need a win right now. And the win is that that nigger in his biggest moment ever, can't

fuck with Drake. We did 400K. He can't fuck with us. We different. He's getting a little bit close. So I'm going to stop talking about it now. Everybody go enjoy the Thanksgiving. Chat. I don't know if I'm going to be back later tonight because the I just might kick in, but

I'm definitely, I got to stream tomorrow. A lot of topics that I have missed. I love you. I love y'all. I love y'all. I hope you realize I love y'all by me giving you my time. You guys give me your time. You give me your resources, your subscriptions, your donations, but most of all, nothing is more important than your time. I hope that you guys spend the rest of the day with your loved ones, whoever you value in life. Again, I clearly value you guys. I know you value me for even being here. We've had thousands of people just sitting here watching me. Appreciate you guys for that. I could never say enough. Whether we agree, whether we disagree,

clearly we have a commonality in the subject matter that we're talking about and I trust me from the bottom of my heart I appreciate you guys I'm gonna go spend some time with the family I'm glad I spent some time with my other family was to you guys and I'll be back on either later tonight depending on how much the ox tail hit because I'm you know I ain't gonna lie I've been on dying for today anybody going to die for today? Oh man I've been on a die for today man

y'all are dying for this shit so now shit anybody get to Thanksgiving table and have to unbuckle a pants No, did he. Like, I got to unbuckling because I'm three plays. I got to go three rounds. Pause. Three plates. I'm coming back there.

It's all good, man. Listen to Jamaican Thanksgiving, Oxdale Curry. God, it's going to be good. Love y'all. I will see you out tomorrow or I'll see you out later tonight if the Oxdale hasn't consumed me in a food coma. All right. Peace out. Enjoy your day.

And I'm going to watch some football games and basketball games and shit like that going on. All right. By the way, for all the other people who did tune in, people in the industry, I support. I respect y'all. I respect our relationship. the scenes even if it's not a public one for my other peers who have tuned in Joe I see you money we're gonna do something soon and um appreciate everybody right