Speaker 1: Let's get started with some news out of the entertainment industry,
Speaker 1: and it's something that we've touched on before, y'all.
Speaker 2: Drake, you know that brother.
Speaker 1: He's gone ahead and filed a lawsuit against his own
Speaker 1: record company, Universal Music Group for Kendrick Lamar's not Like Us.
Speaker 1: Attorneys for Drake say the song, which is aimed at
Speaker 1: the Canadian rapper, is an example of valuing quote corporate
Speaker 1: greed over the safety and well being.
Speaker 2: Of its artists end quote.
Speaker 1: Kendrick released not Like Us last summer after a series
Speaker 1: of disc tracks exchanged between the two artists in the spring.
Speaker 2: On the song, Lamar.
Speaker 1: Calls Drake a pedophile and accuses him of appropriating black culture.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Both artists are under Universal Music Group Umbrella. Here's a
Speaker 1: portion of the claims in the suit, written by Drake's attorney.
Speaker 1: They claim, you quote approved, published and launched a campaign
Speaker 1: to create a viral hit out of a rap track
Speaker 1: that was intended to convey the specific, unmistakable and false
Speaker 1: factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile and to
Speaker 1: suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in
Speaker 1: response end quote. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm torn and I
Speaker 1: want to be very, very sensitive to this subject because
Speaker 1: I'm a product of the hip hop genre and what
Speaker 1: have you. I grew up in Hollis, Queens, New York City,
Speaker 1: listening to run DMC.
Speaker 2: They're from Hollis. Jam Master J, the late jam Master J.
Speaker 1: God Rest his soul was great friends with my late
Speaker 1: brother Bezu god Rest his soul.
Speaker 2: LL WHOJ grew.
Speaker 1: Up five minutes down a block on Farmers Boulevard. You
Speaker 1: know the joh Rules, the fitty sense of the world,
Speaker 1: and others from Queens. So for me, when I bring
Speaker 1: up hip hop culture, my initial response, which hasn't changed
Speaker 1: that much by the way, is.
Speaker 2: Go handle your business in that studio.
Speaker 1: See, Drake got sensitive with a lot of people when
Speaker 1: he went after DeMar DeRozan talking about you know what.
Speaker 1: You know he would not go for his jersey being
Speaker 1: hung in the rafters. You know when he was put
Speaker 1: off by Lebron James dancing to Drake's music.
Speaker 2: And you know when DeMar.
Speaker 1: DeRozan and Russell Westbrook and these brothers were on stage
Speaker 1: while Kendrick Lamar was performing.
Speaker 2: Not like us.
Speaker 1: They are from Compton, not Lebron, but they from la
Speaker 1: that's not a crime. So in that regard, I thought
Speaker 1: Drake was tripping. I was up the mindset like YO,
Speaker 1: handle it in the studio. He got you today, that
Speaker 1: don't mean he gonna get you next week.
Speaker 2: And if he got you, he got you. But if
Speaker 2: you got sent better something, the Eclipse not like us.
Speaker 2: Do that because Drake, you that great, you that special?
Speaker 2: What's the problem?
Speaker 1: Get in the studio and handle it like that. You
Speaker 1: don't handle it in the courtroom. That's not how you
Speaker 1: address contention in the hip hop industry when it comes
Speaker 1: to actual records being made.
Speaker 2: That's not what you do. And I stand on that.
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that Drake should do one or two things.
Speaker 1: Stand down and say he got me, or stand up
Speaker 1: by going in the studio and making another distrack of
Speaker 1: your own and making sure it Eclipse is not like us.
Speaker 1: What are the other I firmly believe that I'm not
Speaker 1: backing down or bound down from that.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell y'all where Drake hits me.
Speaker 1: And my sensitive side. Dare I say comes into play
Speaker 1: when you have to move your child and a mother
Speaker 1: out of elementary school when he's being threatened in school
Speaker 1: when the mother and the child have to move out
Speaker 1: of Toronto according to the reports, that's what it says
Speaker 1: for safety reasons.
Speaker 2: When you've been.
Speaker 1: Accused and people think there's validity, not just you know,
Speaker 1: lyrical dissection dissection, but literally they're attaching legitimacy to allegations
Speaker 1: and accusations of you being a pedophile, then it gets
Speaker 1: a little dicey because um g, I mean Universal Music Group,
Speaker 1: both of them are under that.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna look.
Speaker 1: At Universal Music Group and say what it was a
Speaker 1: crime for them trying to profit off of you?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 1: They trying to profit off for you in any way
Speaker 1: they can, whether it's through your music or somebody else's.
Speaker 2: Music about you. The record company, of course, that's what
Speaker 2: they're gonna do. Cost that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: One could argue they should be a bit sensitive to
Speaker 1: one of their own artists, but in their mind, did
Speaker 1: it compromise your bottom line?
Speaker 2: They don't think so.
Speaker 1: Did it compromise Kentrick Lamar's bottom line since he's under
Speaker 1: there unbrother as well, damn sure didn't it? Big up Tim,
Speaker 1: it's making him a bout load of money. That means
Speaker 1: it's gonna make them a boat load of money. And
Speaker 1: their attitude is they probably were expecting you to come
Speaker 1: back with even more material to go out him with
Speaker 1: and they could make money off.
Speaker 2: Of both of y'all.
Speaker 1: That's what they probably were thinking. That ain't what happened.
Speaker 1: So because that's not what happened. And when you consider
Speaker 1: the level of sensitivity that's been brought to the equation
Speaker 1: because again he was basically accused of being a pedophile
Speaker 1: appropriate black coach. I don't want to hear all of that.
Speaker 1: That's a different subject for another day. But being called
Speaker 1: a pedophile, yeah, he's.
Speaker 2: A dad in this universe.
Speaker 1: Is your own music, is your own music company that's
Speaker 1: promoting this stuff?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: I understand I'm not as dog and as gistus as
Speaker 1: I once was, even though I still wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I understand where Drake's coming from.
Speaker 1: I just think that ultimately he's defeating the purpose because
Speaker 1: in the end, you're a hip hop artist who's gonna
Speaker 1: want your music to be absorbed by the masses in
Speaker 1: the future because you're far from a finished product and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be an abundance of people out there that
Speaker 1: look at this as a weak way to come at
Speaker 1: somebody like Kendrick Lamar who came at.
Speaker 2: You the way that he did.
Speaker 1: They want you to come back the same way or
Speaker 1: bow down to the fact that you got shook. That's
Speaker 1: how people are. I can see both sides of this.
Speaker 1: Before I could only see the one side that this
Speaker 1: looked weak to be using the Lord to come after
Speaker 1: the artists that took it to you in the studio.
Speaker 1: But I get where you're coming from. Now I do
Speaker 1: see it. I still wouldn't do it, but that's me
Speaker 1: a lot of people I know, But I understand why
Speaker 1: Drake could feel differently about this.
Speaker 2: I do