The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Drake Files Lawsuit For Defamation & Claims Artificially Inflated Streams Over Not Like Us

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey Of The Day To Aubrey 'Drake' Graham For Filing A Lawsuit For Defamation & Claims Artificially Inflated Streams Over Not Like Us. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, y'all. Nimini here. I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove, The Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. -♪ Flash, slam, another one gone, fast bam, another one gone. -♪ The cracker, the bat, and another one gone.

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Donkey of the Day for Monday, December 2nd goes to Aubrey Drake Graham. We was on vacation all last week, so I didn't get the opportunity to properly give Drake the credit he deserves for being stupid. But if you haven't heard, last week, Frozen Moments LLC, a company managed by Drake, filed a petition in the New York Supreme Court accusing UMG and Spotify of engaging in a scheme to ensure Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us broke through on multiple streaming platforms.

According to the petition, Aubrey Graham claimed the label used dishonest tactics to increase the number of listeners for Not Like Us on Spotify and radio stations. He also filed another petition against UMG alleging defamation and claiming that the label could have stopped the release of Not Like Us, which the rapper said in the document is a song falsely accusing him of being a sex offender.

Let's go to ABC News for the report, please. Drake is filing a petition against Universal Music Group and Spotify accusing the companies of quote, artificially inflating the spread of Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar. In the New York court filing, Drake alleges UMG and Spotify quote, deceived consumers into believing the song was more popular than it was, manipulating the streaming services to make the song go viral. UMG released a statement saying in part, the suggestion that UMG would do anything

to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue. Now I told y'all back in May on my Brilliant Idiots podcast, I might have even said it here on Breakfast Club, I don't remember, but I told y'all Drake was gonna file a lawsuit. I told you Drake was gonna sue. He is a multi-billion dollar entity. No multi-billion dollar entity is gonna allow you

to call him a pedophile or a sex offender and not take some sort of legal action. But here's the thing, the person who has the real defamation case in this situation is Kendrick's woman. Because Drake not only said Kendrick was beaten on her, he said that day free Kendrick's business partner and friend was the real father to one of Kendrick's kids. So if you're going to accuse somebody of defamation, you must first make sure you too aren't guilty of defamation. Okay. Drake saying that Kendrick defamed him is indeed the pot calling the kettle beige, but that's not even why I'm giving him donkey of the day. Okay. I'm giving him donkey of the day because Drake is proving without a shadow of a doubt that he simply doesn't

understand culture. I used to debate with my man Glasses Malone, drop on the clues bombs for Glasses Malone. You can listen to his No Sealers podcast on the Black Effect I Heart Radio podcast network. I used to debate with Glasses when he would say things like Drake isn't hip-hop. He would say Drake is not culture. Glasses would actually say Drake is Madonna. He's pop. He's manufactured. And you know after this this lawsuit, I have to say, I agree. Because Drake doesn't understand how any of this works. Number one, Not Like Us was very popular.

Okay, it's still very popular. It was an instant smash. All right, Not Like Us isn't just a hit record. It's a rare cultural phenomenon. Records like that don't come along too often. Records like that can't be programmed. I don't care how much money you spend that radio or on playlists, whatever it is, when something is a cultural phenomenon you can't buy that. Okay you can't buy Culture Drake. Not Like Us was a cultural

identifier for a whole coast. I wouldn't be surprised if California made the state motto, they not like us one day. Right now their state motto is Eureka. So they need an upgrade. Okay and they not like us would absolutely be a better motto but that's what Drake doesn't understand because Drake is absolutely one of the biggest artists in the world. Okay he has a cult like following not just a cult like following he has some of the most loyal D-riders on the planet. In fact, drop on the clues bombs for Drake's D-riders. There are people amongst us who sit on Drake's penis

the way Drake was sitting on the CN tower on the Views album cover. Okay? But even with Drake's huge fan base, don't think for one second, whatever the label UMG was doing to promote, not like us, they were doing the same thing for you your whole career.

Okay, if one of those diss records you put out would have taken off and been a cultural phenomenon like Not Like Us, the record label would have pushed that too. How would you be clowning Kendrick right now if Kendrick said, you know, UMG, you didn't have to let Drake put that record out accusing me of beating my lady. You didn't have to let Drake put that record out accusing me of beating my lady. You didn't have to let Drake put that record out saying my child isn't really mine. I'm trying to get you to see why you look like a complete and total sucker Drake. Okay not to mention once again you are a huge artist but don't believe your own hype too much because those same tricks you are accusing UMG of doing for Not Like Us they have done

for you your whole career. There was a time when Drake was on the cover of every playlist on the browser page of Spotify. They did it with Apple too. I think it was called Scorpion Season or something like that. He took over multiple playlists on the same day. All I'm saying, Auburn, is stop acting like you haven't been the beneficiary of record label technology. Okay? You'd be in a whole ho simply because you lost

simply because Kendrick Lamar kicked your ass lyrically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally and anybody acting like this is anything more than Drake's feelings being hurt. You are ho too. A OV ho to be exact. Okay, he's fighting the same war that Michael Jackson fought. Drake is taking a stand for the art and the artist. People who are running with that narrative would hold Drake's penis while he pees and shake it for him when he's finished. Drake has been handling this terribly since Not Like Us dropped. And please let's keep this in mind.

Drake you're in this position because you tapped out. You chose to tap out after you heard Not Like Us. Kendrick dropped too much tune for your head top. Okay, he gave you Euphoria, 616 in LA, Meet the Grams and Not Like Us. It was too much for you because you didn't have to tap out after the hard part six. You could have went in the studio and gave us a bop.

You the bop guy. You could have got with some ghost riders, went in the studio and wrote a hit to combat – Not Like Us – but you chose not to. You tapped out. Kendrick won. And he told you to squabble up, not lawyer up. But you chose to get the lawyers because you lost the squabble. Please give Aubrey Drake cram the sweet sounds of the day.

You are the donkey of the day. Yeehaw. And I'ma tell Drake exactly, you know what I've been telling him since the summer. Take a break, go away. Let nostalgia bring you back. People will miss you. You see what J. Cole is them since the summer. Take a break. Go away. Let nostalgia bring you back. People will miss you. You see what J Cole is doing.

People don't even care. He tapped out of the rap battle anymore. You know what I'm saying? Because he taking folks down memory lane with the audio scripted series he's doing. He got the 10 year anniversary of a Far As Hill Drive is coming in a couple of weeks. Just announced Dreamville.

Just announced Dreamville Fest. Like yo, people will, nostalgia will bring you back. You have that much history in the game, Drake. But right now, you need to take a break. Cause this Kendrick Tidal wave ain't stopping no time soon. What was Michael Jackson fighting for? Oh, they said they were taking Michael Jackson down because he owned all the catalogs and stuff.

He owned half of Sony ATVs publishing. Yeah, so they said they did that. So he owned like damn near half of all the publishing in the music industry. So they said they were taking him down. That I believe though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only reason.

And they were saying that he was touching kids and touching boys because of that. Yeah, I remember. Oh wow, that's why I remember all that. But okay, then they try to compare it to what Drake is gonna do. All right, well let's open up the phone lines. What's your thoughts?

800-585-10 one? Do you believe this? Lawsuit is warranted now the lawsuit is not going at Kendrick is going at UMG. Oh, please and what he's saying That's like shooting up a building knowing Kendrick in there. We're saying I wasn't shooting at Kendrick I was just shooting up the building and what he's saying is that he's in renegotiation Contract and and they are trying to pretty much I haven't heard him say this is this because it sounds like what the OV holes is saying it's like this is what it sounds like all you Drake stands are saying that he's in the middle of negotiations. Sources believe that he's in the middle of negotiations. Are these sources Bage? I don't know. Sources say that he's in the negotiation of a new

contract and that he believes that they are trying to hurt his negotiation skills by calling him a pedophile and saying all these things that aren't true. So he is suing. So let's open up the phone line and say what's your thoughts? 800-585-1051, he's suing UMG and Spotify. And Spotify, yeah. So we ask him what's your thoughts, let's discuss. What's Spotify got to do with this?

Like seriously, what does Spotify have to do with this? I think the Spotify thing was when you say Certify Loverboy and it goes right everything goes What it does for any any song So I'm trying to give people a thing when they call up here give them all both sides 800 585 105 1 and it's saying not only of that, also because of the streams as well. What streams? I guess they're saying they're padding the streams.

Not Like Us is a cultural phenomenon. Why are you arguing with me? I'm just telling people so they get both sides. I'm not arguing. I'm saying Not Like Us was a cultural phenomenon. Like records like that are rare. That's like whoop dead is, bro. Like what else?

Like that was, it was a cultural phenomenon. Hip Hop Array. So then if they had a club. was a cultural phenomenon. Hip Hop parade. In the club. I don't know if hip hop parade was there. In the club. In the club? Oh no, bro. I don't think so.

I don't know. Back that ass up, swag surfing. Back that ass up. Nuck if you buck. No, but don't, no, not like us. Swag surfing. No. Hell yeah, no. No. Taylor Swift was doing the swag surf at the. What? no, not like us. Swag surfing. No. Hell yeah, no?

No. Taylor Swift was doing the swag surfing. What? Yeah, 20 years later. Still, it's still here? No, it's not. It's still here. All right, well let's open up the phonecom, that's michaelthebull.com, and when you mess with the bull, you get the horns.

["The Breakfast Club Theme"] Wake that ass up! Early in the morning! The Breakfast Club! Hey, y'all! Nimini here! I'm the host of a brand new history podcast for kids and families called Historical Records. Executive produced by Questlove,

the Story Pirates, and John Glickman, Historical Records brings history to life through hip hop. -♪ Flash slam another one gone, fast bam another one gone, the cracker, the bat and another one gone, the tip of the cap, there's another one gone. Each episode is about a different inspiring figure from history, like this one about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old girl in Alabama who refused to give up

her seat on the city bus nine whole months before Rosa Parks did the same thing. Check it. And it began with me. Did you know, did you know, I wouldn't give up my seat? Nine months before Rosa, it was Claudette Colvin. Get the kids in your life excited about history by tuning in to Historical Records because in order to make history, you have to make some noise. Listen to Historical Records on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The 2025 iHeart Podcast Awards are coming. This is the chance to nominate your podcast for the industry's biggest award. Submit your podcast for nomination now at iHeart.com slash podcast awards. But hurry, submissions close on December 8th. Hey, everyone. This is Courtney Thorne-Smith, Laura Leightton, and Daphne Zuniga. On July 8th, 1992, apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same as Melrose

Place was introduced to the world. We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal, and every single wig removal together. So listen to Still the Place on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello?

And what if your past itself was a secret and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child. These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our eleventh season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, my undeadly darlings. It's Teresa, your resident ghost host. And do I have a treat for you?

Haunting is crawling out from the shadows and it's going to be devilishly good. We've got chills, thrills, and stories that'll make you wish the lights stayed on. So join me, won't you? Let's dive into the eerie unknown together. Sleep tight, if you can. Listen to Haunting on the iHeart Radio app,

Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.