Drake filed a lawsuit concentrating on prime Common Music Group executives and advertising leaders at Interscope Information on claims they secretly pushed Kendrick Lamar’s diss monitor “Not Like Us” and orchestrated its efficiency on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl to break his status.
The rap heavyweight, whose full title is Aubrey Drake Graham, named greater than 20 people in newly amended court docket filings, accusing them of defamation, harassment and misleading enterprise practices. The criticism alleges the defendants used “covert techniques” to amplify the viral diss monitor, which Drake claims was designed to hurt his public picture and profession.
Amongst these listed are Ramon Alvarez Smikle, govt vp and head of digital advertising at Interscope; Kojo Menne Asamoah; Jordan Bell, city influencer and content material advertising at Interscope; Steve Berman, president of selling at Interscope; Anthony Bucher, also referred to as Tony the Hitmaker, and his firm Hitmaker Providers Inc.; Tiffany Bullock, senior supervisor of influencer and content material advertising at Interscope; and Jesse Collins of Roc Nation.
Drake additionally referred to as out Vincenza Conticchio, video and inventive content material commissioner at Interscope, for allegedly facilitating the licensing and reside efficiency of “Not Like Us” throughout the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
The lawsuit additional identifies key executives who allegedly had data of the marketing campaign, together with Invoice Evans, EVP of city promotion at Interscope; David Isaac Friley; Jody Gerson, CEO of Common Music Publishing Group; Sir Lucian Grainge, CEO of UMG; John Janick, CEO of Interscope; David Kaefer, VP and head of music and audiobooks at Spotify USA; Andrew Kronfeld, EVP of selling at UMG; Annie Lee, COO of Interscope; Avery Lipman, president of Republic Information; Monte Lipman, CEO of Republic Information; Faatimah Mahadi, advertising coordinator at Interscope; Greg Marella, president of promotion and EVP at Capitol Music Group; and Nicole Wyskoarko, president and head of city A&R at Interscope.
In keeping with court docket paperwork filed Monday (August 18), Drake is looking for declaratory and injunctive reduction together with financial damages: “For his misleading enterprise practices declare, Plaintiff seeks statutory and precise damages in an quantity to be decided at trial primarily based on professional opinion and evaluation, plus treble damages and attorneys’ charges and prices pursuant to Part 349 of the New York Normal Enterprise Legislation, in addition to prejudgment and post-judgment curiosity.”
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