Drake Doesn't Care Anymore

[@vincentechavarria72]

Drake is not a white night. He benefited from the label he is suing. In 2018 Spotify premium members requested a refund for being bombarded with Drake ads. The dude is just butt hurt he got smoked, and it trying to punch the air and hoping he hits something. He’s literally spiraling. He will never be allowed to come back into the hip hop culture, he’s literally a fan (pun intended) and he never stood for what made hip hop what it is historically.

[@kxnganon9168]

As an artist I'ma tell you the 30% licensing fee thing is a sign of omitting information. Spotify has a program for artist and labels called Discovery mode where for 30% of your royalties for the length of the campaign Spotify will push your music thru the algorithm and playlists. It may be a form of rigging inna sense but it is available to all artists (w over 25k monthly listeners)and labels not just specifically for Kendrick. Alit of what Drake is suing or petitioning for is regular industry practices it's just not know to the common public so it sounds bad. Trust me it is some shady shit going on but he has been the biggest beneficiary of the shady shit for years. It's when he isn't in the best favor anymore he wanna blow the spot up on some Nino Brown shit

[@LordSiah]

Honestly that's the best way to look at it Basically he sees that the system is not working for him the way it did for the last decade he wants to blow it all up he says if I can't have it no one can if any of this stuff goes through it's going to be bad for him

[@Seoul_Soldier]

@@LordSiahAgreed. If this was such a problem for Drake, he would have exposed it when Scorpion dropped. But it was working for him so it was okay apparently.

[@kxnganon9168]

​@@LordSiahfacts

[@kxnganon9168]

​​​@@Seoul_Soldierfacts as artists we have to learn and be aware of bot behavior on our music being added to bot playlist or random "promoters" botting your song to convince you they have legitimate marketing and to pay them for more. And when u scan majority of the shady bot playlists on the platform a lot of them consists of Drake music Taylor Swift Music Weeknd etc. That's how those scammers trick ppl into paying for placement is by saying your music is next to Drake and Taylor Swift so the streams will be phenomenal whole time it's fake plays .

[@karencove7197]

Thank you, I was going to say something. You said it better!

[@aNamelessVoid]

Drake is having The biggest crash out in music history.

[@myra-yves]

bro’s ego can’t handle that he’s falling off in the eyes of the public and that he’s a cringe cornball 40 year old fboi

[@SergeiBroznodov-uy2us]

SAD! Rip xxxtentacion

[@AndrewBell]

Michael Jackson was worse

[@wuzimu5951]

@@AndrewBell michael jackson at least left a legacy of timeless bangers, drake was always mid or worse

[@briangithae2555]

@@AndrewBell you're on drugs and you need more than prayers..how do the two careers relate in any way?

[@itzenorozco3734]

FD Signifier said it best. Drake is raging at the machine, not against the machine.

[@debbiecrankin]

OLDHEAD SIGNIFIED

[@Peacekeepa317]

That doesn't make any sort of logical sense. Explain the distinction. I bet you deflect instead of back up what you insinuated

[@Des17S]

​@@Peacekeepa317Why are you so pumped up dude. Just nicely ask them to elaborate😂. He's not mad at the system, he's mad that the system didn't work for him this one time like it has before.

[@PrettyThingss]

@@Des17S 😂🙏

[@greenchilaquiles]

​@@Peacekeepa317it makes perfect sense if you aren't an autistic spaz

[@RileyFreeman_247]

All UMG did was promote the song. They both work under the umbrella of UMG. If the shoe was on the other foot and Drake made a diss song that stuck this wouldn’t be a conversation.

[@Someone-tuf]

Imagine losing a rap beef so badly that you turn from a wannabe Atlantian thug to a courtroom snitch

[@MegaRuslanD]

Imagine claiming to be west coast and a rebel to the industry and getting support from UMG puppets like Taylor Swift’s team at the same time. Imagine being anti industry and influencers are paid by the industry to promote your track in order for you to win the beef. Imagine being for the culture and the people and being loved by white Grammys owners who gave grammys to Cardi B instead of Travis. Somehow you guys believe any fairytale industry selling to you. No wonder politicians play you like toys.

[@MegaRuslanD]

And yeah. Kendrick took down “Taylor made freestyle” through legal actions. In the middle of the beef. So by your logic your idol is a snitch too.

[@theholypopechodeii4367]

@@MegaRuslanD Nope, Tupac's estate took it down, because they said the AI Tupac lyrics were a violation of Tupac's rights, and that they never would have allowed Drake to use the AI Tupac even if he asked them. They said it was disrespectful to Tupac because of that and also because it was a diss against Kendrick, who respects Tupac. Nobody respects AI, that is the main reason they took it down. Kendrick didn't take down shit the only statement the estate made about Kendrick was 'The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice against Kendrick Lamar, a good friend to the Estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult,'. The only way Kendrick took down Taylor made is if you believe that Kendrick somehow owns Tupac's estate.

[@Laura01075-y]

@@MegaRuslanD the family of tupac made the song taken down cause they felt disrespected ! kendrick never took legal action what are u talking about

[@Laura01075-y]

@@theholypopechodeii4367 exactly drake fans are running out of excuses now

[@montegah]

Drake thinks it's perfectly fine to falsely accuse people of having kids with their mans Best Friend, accusing people of being mxlested, accusing people of Domestic Violence, all without any sliver of evidence to even slightly back up his claims. But he has a problem when he's called a PDF for being caught on camera many times over his career messing with underage girls time & time again, not just 1 time when he was super young himself, but many times over the course of his career even well into his mid 30s. Can't get mad at people calling you out for your actions, if you don't agree with the stuff your being called out for all you gotta do is simply not do that sh*t. Plenty of us grown adults who don't mess with minors every single day of our lives cuz it's not hard to not do sick sh*t like that at all, in fact it's easier than breathing & breathing is just natural to us we don't even have to think about how to breathe cuz we just do it naturally. It's natural to not be a PDF just like it's natural to breathe, easiest sh*t in the world to do.

[@YfnAntwon]

R Kelly wasn’t even on camera multiple times how does drake get “caught” on camera multiple times with minors buh isn’t at least cancelled

[@montegah]

@@YfnAntwon R Kelly was caught on camera 1 time though, and that time he was on camera with a minor he was pissing on her which is worse than anything we seen of Drake with a minor to be fair. Also you gotta remember it took like 25-30 years to cancel & lock up R Kelly even after that video was leaked, so Drake is only 15 years in, his time is coming pretty soon. Trust that. Every single Celebrity that gets caught messing with minors, they're never held accountable til YEARS, DECADES later every single time. They never arrest these mfs off rip when they're first caught, they allow it to happen cuz it helps them normalize PDFs & extort these celebs out of money. Then once they careers start to go downhill & lose money or they start doing sh*t they bosses don't want them doing they'll use that blackmail against them decades later like they did to R Kelly, Epstein, Diddy, etc... soon to be Drake & probably many others as well.

[@jaydennfs]

if he didn’t care abt public perception he wouldn’t have said that stuff on stream

[@YoutuJj]

I understand it now

[@LordSiah]

I think what my man is getting at is not about him being butthurt about the loss he definitely cares about that It's about him trying to maintain any type of credibility in the music industry Nobody in hip Hop would instigate a battle lose the battle and then try to press legal issues Nobody in history has ever done that that is literally unheard of I'm not saying that I rather drake go outside and kill somebody because we don't want to see rappers die anymore but unfortunately that is way more on brand to what hip hop actually stands for then pressing legal issues we hate cops Everything about hip hop is about staying away from the man the white man the whole point of the Kendrick and Drake beef was about Drake not really caring about the culture as a whole If you cared about the culture he would not do this He will take his L like a man go record some good pop songs and live his life cuz he's a rich man But because he probably feels like what does he have to lose now why would he care at this point about what people think about him in the sense of keeping his credibility everybody already hates him so it makes sense for him to say forget it I'm just trying to press some legal issues to get some money out of this He does not care about keeping his credibility his public rep his career as it stands really is over at least in the sense of people recognizing him in the same way he can't play the same gangster rapper if you're going to the freaking courts because you lose And going to a person stream who has nothing to do with hip hop That's what he's getting at

[@magosexploratoradeon6409]

@@LordSiah He lost all credibility the moment he tried to push that Domestic Abuser angle on Kendrick. Shit's so fake that even Drake's biggest glazer didn't believe it, and to make this worse his dogwater attempt at a counter with The Heart Part 6 dug that credibility even deeper.

[@LordSiah]

@@magosexploratoradeon6409 I see what you're saying but like in hip Hop these things just blow over pretty quickly I'm not going to lie for me I'm too worried about bills and life and ish to care about what the heck happened in the Drake beef 5 years from now to be 100% honest with you and that's 99% of people but him adding the salt add pepper on the wound when you add legal issues to it like I said that has never happened in a rap battle to be in a rap battle that is about culture and the essence of hip Hop and the history to do something that was never done in the history of hip Hop is insane to do something that we for the most part hate doing in a lot of songs for as snitching and stuff like that not that it's a good look for the black community in a whole lot of other stuff that goes into that topic but you see my point it's one thing to lose the battle walk away come back stronger and another thing to lose a fight and come back with your mom or worse yet with a cop 🤣🤣 like it ain't you who instigated the fight

[@exoszn6]

Drake won idc what y’all say

[@Its_Akeria]

“You lost but you’re at least gonna try and make somebody suffer because there’s no way you’re gonna go down by yourself.” Best point ever!!!

[@MrHelloWorld14]

Correction: “gonna try and make everybody suffer…”

[@Its_Akeria]

⁠@@MrHelloWorld14lol it may feel like Drake is making everyone suffer but Pay said somebody

[@daquanthepicasso]

Facts 💯👏🏿

[@dontayewhittaker5687]

Drake gave up chasing the respect of the hip hop community after 2015 like he's fully aware that his core audience is not of the culture which is why he doesn't interacting with hip-hop media

[@shakeswigglez3746]

It’s crazy that he won’t go on any of his D-rider’s podcasts.

[@prod5429]

He will lose... & here's why.. All of the things listed in his lawsuit were things the company did for him and other artists. Its called marketing. Spotify inflated Drake numerous times, to the point where people unsubscribed in 2016 when Scorpion rolled out. & during the rap battle, Drake fully intended to stream and tour off the songs aimed at Kendrick. Its just that Family Matters, Taylor Made, and Push ups didn't pop off like Euphoria, Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us. To sue because Kendrick's narrative succeeded, and yours didn't is stupid. UMG isn't responsible because you decided to get into an exchange of unfounded defamatory statements (a rap battle) with another signed artist.. Kendrick would've been in the same P.R. and financial debacle as Drake if the tables were turned. The difference is Kendrick wouldn't have sued over hurt feelings. Also the defamation suit will fail because 'hearsay' is not defamatory. Kendrick's verse in Not Like Us reads, " Say Drake I heard you like em young." The Supreme Court already ruled on this. Also the claim was made by an artist, not UMG.

[@obamadidyourmom]

Damn ur dumb

[@maclivingston9268]

I think he has a case, simply because Drake and Kendrick are both on the same label. If his audit proves that the label favored Kendricks potential of sales over Drake's then he has a point imo. The label allowed their own artist to be defamed by their other artist, even with risks of criminal consequences. That's the label's fault for allowing the song to be released.

[@kcidd12]

tldr… 🛌

[@Cloutjonesdotcom]

​@@maclivingston9268agreed

[@CORYANTIDOTE]

@@maclivingston9268the guy literally called dot an abuser first 😭

[@anthony8510]

Drake about to fuck around and get his secrets TOLD

[@chenoalaurencin]

THAT part!!!!

[@SuccessfulOnSunset310]

I hope so

[@idkwhodidthis2990]

XXX lawyer for 1 of the deleters wants Drake to testify in the appeal. Remember that Drake was supposed to be called to the witness stand and not only did it never happen, Drake ate breakfast or lunch with the JUDGE on the case

[@JacindatheGreat]

My step dad said Drake better start singing some Spanish songs like Tekashi 69😂 it's over in hip-hop for him

[@TheRonnieaj]

He’s already dropped a Spanish song! It didn’t go anywhere either 😭😭

[@alejaan6778]

Kendrick already took that from him on GNX, he’s gotta go Korean

[@Eniggma39]

Funny thing is 69 is making BANK from Spanish songs

[@veliciarogers7347]

😂😂😂

[@bobcat2938]

Drake got served Life sentence L. Take it from him guys, ego's can kill you. What tf was he thinking entering beef with anyone, when he's crushing on teen celebrities, let alone Kendrick Lamar!?

[@yawsteez]

He got delusional he thought he was really a rapper Harry Potter lost his invincible cloak 😂

[@bobcat2938]

@yawsteez Yep 😆

[@bradlee3109]

It’s because of the fans. You guys pump these celebrities thinking that they God when in reality they lames.

[@yaapokuaboateng3075]

He was thinking he’d smoke Kendrick and that would give him more leverage in his contract negotiations but he lost and with or without bots he would of lost

[@prod5429]

Those UMG attorneys are going to violate Drake, especially on the Defamation front. Here's why: During the beef, who introduced the allegation of Drake's dealings with underaged girls ? Answer: Drake In Taylor Made, Drake introduced his public situation with Milli Bobbi Brown in his lyrics when he was trying to get ahead of Kendrick to diffuse the impact suspected responses from Kendrick. In 6:16 in LA, Kendrick claimed he was getting information from someone in Drake's camp. When Kendrick brought up the rumor of Drake being into underaged girls, it was angled as second hand information. In 'Not Like Us' Kendrick said, "Say Drake I heard you like em young.' Hearsay is not considered defamatory by the Supreme Court. & here's the last point... Drake said in Heart Pt. 6 that he fed Kendrick the information. & he will be questioned about those lyrics, which he will either have to confirm were true or made up.. Either way, its a loss for him. If the court is going to address the lyrics in the song, those attorneys will definitely bring that up. He has no reasonable argument for defamation. He also released songs that made defamatory statements against Kendrick under the UMG umbrella & had Kendrick lost, he would suffered the same P.R night mare that Drake is going through. They both took huge risks but Drake took the L. Looks like Kendrick had the foresight to cover himself legally while violating Drake at the same time 😂

[@idkwhodidthis2990]

True, and that's if the proceedings actually make it to court. Drake should have looked at what happened to Diddy and the liquor company. A defendant in XXX trial wants to appeal because they wanted Drake to testify in the first trial and not only did it not happen, but Drake went to breakfast or lunch with the JUDGE on the case

[@thacrypt223]

"Every antic is feeling distasteful"...

[@jourdanrondo3314]

Drake doesn’t do BLACK media. He’s Not Like Us.

[@i.m.6758]

Kendrick don’t neither lol

[@-HumanOnEarth-]

​@@i.m.6758Kendrick doesn't do any media

[@FavorEight]

He doesn't really like Blk people like that in my opinion.

[@free1622]

He made 100’s of millions by being a master of appealing to black culture stfu

[@free1622]

You’re a bum in the comments nobody would ever want to be like u

[@yingkouzen]

Yes even LawByMike has commented, before this whole lawsuit dropped, that it might be hard for Drake to win the defamation case in a rap beef 🥩

[@Chadyaniki]

You will always be pay. Pay is something you can never avoid.

[@MsSapphire9800]

I think it is more about making sure Kendrick can not perform "Not Like Us" at the Superbowl by tying the song up in court. He reached out to the Superbowl coordinators first and when they didn't respond the way he wanted thm to...he filed the petition.

[@Mike-vr7mb]

It’s getting performed! Trust that he is!

[@yaapokuaboateng3075]

At this point the world and his wife have heard the song so trying to ban it from the SB seems futile to me 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@Mike-vr7mb]

@@yaapokuaboateng3075 ei! Yaa Pokua! Eti sein?

[@maclivingston9268]

@@MsSapphire9800 🏆 chess moves.

[@maclivingston9268]

@@yaapokuaboateng3075 it kinda died down now but to revitalize it during SB is career devastation for Drake. Millions of people worldwide yelling out "A Minoooooor" at the same time is crazy. And you know they gonna cut the beat off too 😭. Imagine a whole stadium yelling "Certified Pehdofyle!!! Wop wop wop wop!!!" Omg. I could picture it ....😱 That type of stuff could make a Japanese man commit "honor-suicide". Totally nutz...

[@rodrickgriffin7599]

Drake never recouped that $400MIL.

[@LorenzowakefieldEllison]

nope..

[@nameisamine]

I joked about him suing but I never thought he’d actually go there bc he knows that would be suicidal for what’s left of his credibility….but he did it…he actually did it. He’s over it. I don’t know if it’s apathy or a mental breakdown, or an exit strategy from the Hip-Hop altogether. I’ll be staying tuned though.

[@btrizzle2150]

He’s been way too arrogant for too long. This is karma. I will grab the popcorn to watch him unravel.

[@Waters..]

Exactly! And he’s gonna keep getting karma bad if he doesn’t learn the lesson he supposed to be learning right now. It’ll be best he surrenders because all the crime he has done, he gonna have to just go through it.

[@rockymcgee1]

Drake: We fed him the information to🗣️ coPs,👮🏾 cops.🧑🏾‍⚖️.😂 foh

[@chromecartel]

Of course the music industry is rigged. I have to go out of my way and physically type in Kanye's name when I want to hear his music on apple music. But Drake will pop up on my playlist 100 times without me typing his name once. Drake can't call the industry rigged.

[@greenchilaquiles]

I tapped the "don't play this artist" button on Drake's Spotify page when the rap beef was happening, and he was still being recommended by Spotify's algorithm. Had to block *again*

[@victoriadream]

Drake’s xxx assassination is now being revisited. 🙊🙈🙉

[@menovedio]

he could’ve pivoted fully out of rap with honestly nevermind and committed to being a full blown popstar and everything would’ve been okay but hey here we are

[@Waters..]

All this just cause he wanted to fake a rap persona. Like this is crazy.

[@mrickch]

Dude I want pie so bad rn

[@TheRealShanyeWest]

sweet potato pie or pumpkin?

[@qualityfreak9611]

​@@TheRealShanyeWestperhaps even apple or banana cream

[@KANOAHOfficial]

its like bro.... you're DRAKE.. bots or no bots, anybody you beef with is gonna get that traffic regardless.

[@joeysmother7535]

thats not even entirely true. How come Champagne Moments by Rick Ross wasn't the most popular song in the country

[@Itstherealspill]

Yea why wasn’t Champagne Moments chart topping??

[@KANOAHOfficial]

@@joeysmother7535 that’s why I said “bots or no bots” and not “there absolutely positively 100% was no bots used at all whatsoever” and not like us became the biggest song because people replayed it over and over and over. People aren’t playing champagne moments as much as not like us. But I mean the music video to Champagne moments got 9M views so I’d say that’s pretty good traffic from the beef.

[@KANOAHOfficial]

me mentioning that anyone that beefs with drake is gonna get traffic from the beef is NOT me saying that anyone that beefs with drake is gonna have the number one song in the country lol.

[@greenkoopa]

He used to be Drake, now he's just Aubrey from Toronto

[@medinaw94]

The dude has writers, they fact that he had any respect to lose is wild

[@WeBoogie28]

Dishonorable what he is doing, involving the law to intervene, further substantiating why he is not like us.

[@ichiban2911]

Real talk tho Drake needs to be careful because I swear everytime an artist wants to battle against a record label something bad always happens.. Prince, Micheal Jackson, Aaron Carter.

[@RashaadGenie]

That nervous ass gambling bird guy somehow made Drake seem even weirder.

[@lamin1825]

Personally I don’t care if Drake cares or not, he’s music quality has dropped massively.

[@YvngFredoMusic]

Love being this early to a pay video 🖤

[@tacianoborges6210]

Drake reminds me of Randall from Recess

[@SkeeterPete]

Of course you love Steve lacy, you are Steve lacy 😂

[@Therezas_corner]

what i was thinking lol

[@keithbell9348]

Truth be told. I have always been a fair- weather fan of rap music in general. And knew next to nothing about Drake. Years ago I happened to land in the middle of this one rap video that was filmed down in Memphis, Tenn (I believe). (As it turns out, it was "Worst Behavior"). I saw the showcased Rapper. And honestly, compared to the rear of the people in that video, this rapper seemed so out of place. Later I watched it a 2nd time, this time in its entirety on KZbin. My reaction was still the same. Serioulsy, I said to myself: "He is not like them". I felt they put him in the wrong video. Then I looked at many of the comments in the comment section and quite a few were calling him "corny", "fake". After this latest debacle, I suppose alot of people expected Drake to play this move.

[@ajnovamusic]

11:36 I'm pretty sure this reduced royalty rate is just a feature any artist can use. It's called Spotify discovery mode - Spotify push your song more widely at a reduced royalty rate lol

[@alejandrovallencci]

Do yall not remember when Scorpion came out and it was plastered ALL over Spotify? Rap playlist? Scorpion Pop playlist? Scorpion Hip Hop playlist? Scorpion Rock playlist? Scorpion Alternative playlist? Scorpion Hell even the classical section had Drake’s mug all over it

[@Amdidry]

I’m glad Drake is going against the industry it’s time someone stand up

[@qcarruthers5075]

“You gonna make me buy bottles for Charlemagne “ that bar is PAYOLA

[@AndrewBell]

Drake is now burning serious bridges with his label lol

[@jasons.8125]

Drake knows this will NEVER go to trial. This will settle out of court. He had to have been cooking this up for weeks or likely months. He filed literally the next business day after GNX dropped. This is a play. It’s a PR grenade he’s tossing into a business and culture that he feels betrayed by. He’s stepping on GNX and forcing the attention back onto himself. Irrelevance is death to him. If content creators are - sidebar, this pie analogy and b-roll @12:23 goes on for too long, but I digress - making videos about Drake’s petty grievances, they’re NOT making content about GNX - then Drake considers it a win.

[@arseeoliveira6934]

Whatever helps him sleep at night tho, cuz GNX is still being talked about besides being in ppl's rotation

[@jasons.8125]

@@arseeoliveira6934 When GNX dropped, the entire world of music + our culture focused on it. Exclusively. Then Drake files his petitions. Does this stop TV Off from playing in your car? Absolutely not. But it does disrupt the entire BUSINESS of influence. There's the game - then there's the game within the game. This is about the latter.

[@debbiecrankin]

Ayo Drake said OK y’all don’t fwm sayless 😂🤷🏽

[@ninety1nethagawd]

“and notice i said we, its not jus me, im what the culture feelin” drake knows like we all know heen part of the culture. he associates himself as a black man, he dont see himself as black & he’s showing that hes never been a part of this culture.

[@aann7266]

Drake can’t proof anything that’s what these petitions are about. It’s to get info from UMG & Spotify to see if they did extra illegal to promote the song. He’s full sh*t. His whole career he’s stolen songs, lyrics & styles from folks while the label allowed it. All his song botted.

[@manny19976]

Are you gonna drop an video on gnx album I was really looking forward to your insight

[@jamespain2138]

9:56 Thank you for acknowledging why he’s actually doing this smh everyone else just uses that man’s name for clout instead of giving real facts ! He’s definitely chasing money.

[@jmh4ggg]

It wasn't a fact. It was a theory. The only people that actually believe he's suing strictly for money are Drake D riders in disbelief, trying to excuse his behavior.

[@deceiver444]

This Aubrey guy is depressing

[@MaffyTaffyHaffy]

Who’s that

[@deceiver444]

@MaffyTaffyHaffy I'm talking about actor Aubrey Graham

[@diego89132]

Your anaylsis are always spot on I like your content

[@explorten]

ONLY YT PPL AND YT ADJACENT PPL DEFEND DRAKE.

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

Drake the goat should branch away from hiphop cause hiphop doesn't like him.

[@tandokazimayatula]

Wow you mentioning Nelson Mandela at 23:34 really took me off guard😂❤️🇿🇦

[@nolimitjayyfromga21]

I like drake’s music but this whole situation has honestly hurt his brand and reputation and this lawsuit just further destroys it.💯atp he just doesn’t care about his legacy

[@MaximusR93]

The thing is, I don’t think they started boosting that song until it was clear that Kendrick had won, the song was doing Numbers, and I think they just ended up boosting it after the fact

[@owen-trombone]

Why is Drake so willing to sacrifice his reputation for money? How much money does he need? $400m seems like more than enough for anyone.

[@SweaterSwagg]

Good question

[@wyattrussell7496]

Gunna look like a saint

[@veliciarogers7347]

Great video Pay!

[@enishi4ty5]

14:12 in your analogy and as a musician the only issues are: 1. we all pay for promo or marketing. drake knows we know thats okay so if thats the issue its moot 2. if drake has an actual point itd be in the suppressing of his music and by extension the ability to actually SUPPRESS other artists. in your metaphor thats actually taking OTHER PIES OFF THE SHELF ALTOGETHER. Many indie artists deal with botting which ruins the algorithm and distrokid is notorious for having a relationship with spotify that protects them. botting is like the store adding sprinkles and cherries to your pie without consent that can help or hurt your sale but ultimately diminish your control over the “scientific process”. you cant measure what works or not and can be easily suppressed because you arent driving real sales and your work is marked as unsellable. botting in general is false advertising and an example of a method of suppression that can be used to keep artists out of reach of their audience. idk if what drake alludes to is true (like playing kdot when asked to play drake) but if so its not a surprise but he did benefit either thru work or active particpation or whatever so idc

[@OsceolaNola7]

If he didn’t care he would sue people.

[@chenoalaurencin]

EXCELLENT commentary.

[@CORYANTIDOTE]

Why does Drake need a label again?

[@surrendering2within]

This is the most sophisticated take in the situation I've heard so far

[@calrellartmusic]

This hasn’t been a drake hater year, yall act like ppl want to hate Drake, No we love his music, but Drake is doing exactly what ppl who don’t like him already knew, it’s the Drake fans that can’t seem to wrap their head around it, even tho it’s been blatantly in their face the entire year 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ItzGuerrero]

"Everything they say about me is true!" -The Woz

[@erica_em]

Actually, adding context makes it make even less sense... on a whole bunch of levels. As a trial lawyer, those petitions are not legally sound, they contradict each other, they are unsupported by evidence, and are actually counter to the very evidence they are based on. They are misrepresenting facts to the court and I imagine when UMG's lawyers demonstrate that, it will be the end of the line for these suits that he is threatening to bring.

[@favoritodiavolo]

Drake said if I'm crashing out you're coming with me 😂

[@erica_em]

It's not haggling - "the discount" is a literal feature in the UI called Discovery mode where you pay a % of the royalties to Spotify in exchange for promoting the song within the app. So, Google Adsense would be a better analogy than pies. But also, stores literally do what you described, soda displays, aisle end caps, placement in the checkout line, etc.

[@_KayBee_]

“Fighting against corruption.” el oh el

[@CaptainBudak]

What’s good I just used to be pay I’m here to watch

[@salomaonplanetsaturn]

With another video 🤓🕵🏼‍♀️

[@m3mn0nYT]

Potentially, and should he win, record labels could forbid their Hip Hop artists from participating in the kind of competition in rap beefs and battles fearing legal ramifications. It doesn’t sound very good IMO.

[@smoothmoney5133]

Love the pie analogy

[@503.00]

would be nice if someone made a video on what drake should’ve done post beef like maybe cut down on the features and antics ts year maybe still put 100 gigs then go straight to putting out the pnd collab album.

[@i.m.6758]

The label controls the public perception. That’s what he’s talking about.

[@TailspinMedia]

Even if EVERYTHING Drake alleges is true, no one is going to care.

[@thanosianthemadtitanic]

"We plotted for a week then we fed you the litigation" "my lawyers are covered In medals, honor and decoration" "The judge came over and I was like your honor i, your honor I, YOUR HONOR i!!!!"

[@yupisaidit-mx4is]

Are you going to review kendrick's album?

[@grimmseti]

Speaking of bad looks, what's with the paintball clothing onstage? What's that about?

[@basicallymid]

You bounce back from a lot of things in hiphop, but you can't bounce back from being a certified punk.

[@nickalvarez1]

Damn bruh.. Those dessert pics tho

[@morallybiased1772]

Drake : THIS IS NO FUN WHEN IT HAPPENING TO MEEEE ! ( Pouts his lips and crosses his arms )

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

Drake needs to sue Kendrick too for defamation. How dare Kendrick lie about my goat.

[@Vrmickyperry]

Certified Lawyer Boy😂😂

[@drewlavay]

Red Button is wild when u listen to it after these reports...

[@juliusbushiv2904]

Well said brother

[@yawsteez]

He just doing whatever he thought it would save his career

[@xiner3000]

he's got tons of fans still love him. he'll be fine without hiphop

[@parkermudsen1063]

I agree. He clearly doesn’t care any more. He is going for the most historic crash out in rap history.

[@nickalvarez1]

People calling him a snitch for suing is wild to me. People comparing this to Ja Rule is crazy too. Drake & Co. is too big to fail. And you're absolutely right about him not doing hip hop media. He always embarrassed himself whenever he tried 😂

[@chocolaterocket2333]

Lawbrey Graham is finished

[@TreJunny-j9p]

One thing is Drake is the most Polarizing artist aive ever seen

[@joebags40]

4:27 this really just paints a picture imo, all of these ppl are pieces on a chessboard they aren’t even seen by Drake as real ppl but they aren’t willing to accept tht because hey, at least they get to talk to the guy. I can’t necessarily even say i hate Drake for tht when these ppl are to stupid to realize their constantly getting played over and over again especially Ak. Lastly not knowing Drakes arguably biggest album is genuinely unbelievable when it had 3 number 1s.

[@SeanLKearns]

Ai drake is gonna go so hard at the super bowl.

[@jayquanpov9486]

Drake crashing out at a magnitude of 9000

[@i.m.6758]

Kendrick does hip-hop media?

[@JamesOsyris]

Honestly, there has never been a rapper that had more adversarial lyrics than Drake. His rap songs were mostly about rubbing his success in people's faces and sneak dissing. I would say, more than anyone. So i feel like this was an inevitable outcome especially because he came from the suburbs and is half jewish and kinda soft.

[@Nicholas5801]

Drake should’ve stayed in his lane. Now he digs his grave deeper.

[@haniyyahn]

I think wanting out of his contract is actually a more likely scenario. Why? Because currently Drake is effectively an indentured servant -- in debt to the label. If he wants to do anything else -- for example, if he decides he would rather return to acting or even if he just wants to go on extended vacation, the kind of/size of contract he has with UMG means that he must constantly produce and perform. The idea that he is trying to negotiate a higher contract (his contract is already one of the highest in the industry) sounds unlikely or delusional. Drake is currently damaged goods. If I were the label, at this point, I would be worried now that I will not recoup the money I have invested in him. If anything, the label is currently trying to claw things back. Payola seems to be the default course of action. Drake's inquiries are ridiculous because 100% the label has receipts (allegedly) of the many times when they engaged in it on Drizzy's behalf. The problem is that all of it is illegal. Going up against a massive corporation like that or even just threatening them though is not wise. It might be cheaper for them to break their contract with him and pay any penalties than to have him trying to extort them.