Mal is weighing in on Drake’s ongoing authorized battle with Common Music Group, saying followers shouldn’t assume the case is completed simply because a choose dismissed it.

Talking with Rory on their podcast, the media character stated Drake’s authorized workforce is getting ready to enchantment the choice after Choose Jeannette A. Vargas dominated that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” was not defamatory. “Folks want to know this isn’t accomplished,” Mal stated. “His legal professionals are going to enchantment and take it to a different stage. When you had proof proving your aspect, would you simply stroll away?”

Drake’s attorneys confirmed these plans, telling Pitchfork, “We intend to enchantment as we speak’s ruling, and we stay up for the Court docket of Appeals reviewing it.”

Choose Vargas threw out the case final Thursday, ruling that Lamar’s diss document couldn’t fairly be interpreted as stating factual claims about Drake. The ruling said that “Not Like Us” falls throughout the bounds of inventive expression in a rap feud, the place “incendiary language and offensive accusations” are a part of the tradition.

Drake had accused UMG of defamation for selling the monitor, which refers to him as a “pedophile.” Nonetheless, the choose decided that listeners understood the track as efficiency, not a factual allegation.

Common Music Group responded with confidence after the dismissal, calling the lawsuit “an affront to inventive freedom.” In an announcement, the corporate stated, “We’re happy with the court docket’s resolution and stay up for persevering with our work selling Drake’s music and investing in his profession.”

Nonetheless, Mal believes the rapper’s workforce isn’t backing down anytime quickly. With the enchantment already in movement, he says this authorized feud between Drake and the label would possibly simply be coming into its subsequent spherical.