Drake is trying to expose alleged acts of home violence dedicated by Kendrick Lamar within the defamation lawsuit towards Common Music Group.

Drake Seems to Expose Kendrick Lamar Home Violence Allegations

On Tuesday (Aug. 12), Drake’s authorized workforce filed the newest movement of their federal lawsuit towards the music big over Okay-Dot’s “Not Like Us.” The request is to show over of dozens of information pertaining to the case, based on court docket paperwork obtained by XXL on Wednesday (Aug. 13). Among the many 75 doc requests are calls for to surrender paperwork “regarding home violence, violence towards ladies, and/or different types of violence dedicated by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth.”

As well as, the submitting asks for “all paperwork and communications regarding [Dave Free] and his relationship to Kendrick Lamar and Kendrick Lamar’s youngsters.”

Drake appears to need to substantiate allegations he made on the 2024 Kendrick Lamar diss track “Household Issues,” the place he accused Kendrick Lamar of beating his spouse, Whitney. Drake additionally insisted on the track that Kendrick’s youngsters may really be Dave Free’s youngsters.

Learn Extra: Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Three Days of Disses That Modified Every thing

Drake’s Legal professionals Need Kendrick Lamar’s Contract

Drake’s legal professionals are additionally looking for Kendrick Lamar’s full UMG contract. UMG turned over a replica of the settlement on June 24. Nevertheless, the doc was closely redacted.

“The redactions are plainly improper, particularly as a result of the events particularly agreed to deal with most of these contracts as Attorneys’ Eyes Solely below phrases of the protecting order,” Drake’s legal professionals’ new submitting reads.

Now, they’re asking the choose to make UMG flip over the complete factor.

Drake’s Attorneys Go After UMG CEO Lucian Grainge

The Canadian rapper’s authorized workforce argues that UMG is badly shielding its CEO, Lucian Grainge, from scrutiny by reversing its personal prior statements about his function and withholding proof central to Drake’s claims. They need UMG to show over all custodial information regarding Grainge’s promotion and data of false allegations levied by Kendrick Lamar on “Not Like Us.”

Drake’s workforce lately scored a win once they efficiently served an elusive key witness within the case, Kojo Menne Asamoah, who’s accused of working with Interscope to make use of bots to artificially inflate “Not Like Us.”

XXL has reached out to Kendrick Lamar’s workforce, Drake’s attorneys and UMG for remark.

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