Diplomatic Immunity F ‘Em – Drake Strikes Back amid Legal War Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”

Drake accuses Universal Music Group of tampering with streams and defamation, igniting a legal feud over Kendrick Lamar’s fiery diss track.

Hip-hop beefs often live in diss tracks and cryptic interviews, but this? This is next level. Just as Kendrick Lamar had the internet reeling from his surprise album GNX, Drake dropped a bombshell of his own: not a track, but a lawsuit. Twice, in fact. The Toronto megastar has taken legal action against Universal Music Group (UMG), accusing the label of orchestrating a scheme to inflate streams for Kendrick’s Not Like Us – a diss track so sharp it reportedly left the charts, and possibly Drake’s psyche, ablaze.

The accusations are wild enough to rival the drama of Not Like Us itself. Drake’s team claims UMG used bots, payola, and “voice assistant manipulation” to promote the track, creating a false narrative that it was outperforming reality. Imagine asking Siri to play a Drake classic, only to end up with Kendrick’s scathing bars accusing the Toronto rapper of unspeakable crimes. Yes, people noticed – and Drake isn’t letting it slide.

The first filing, lodged in Manhattan, alleges UMG violated the RICO Act – a legal tool more commonly associated with mob bosses than music moguls. A second suit, filed…