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50 Cent is siding with Drake within the Canadian famous person’s petition towards Common Music Group. On Monday (Dec. 16), throughout Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast, the New York rap legend mentioned he believes each declare specified by the latest authorized motion with UMG.
“Every part he mentioned they did in that lawsuit, they did it,” 50 Cent mentioned earlier than drawing a parallel to his personal expertise with G-Unit — beforehand residence to Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Younger Buck — and Interscope Information, a UMG subsidiary. “At Interscope, they delivered [marketing for] G-Unit and G-Unot,” the “21 Questions” hitmaker shared.
Notably, The Sport spearheaded a G-Unot boycott marketing campaign after being dropped from G-Unit within the 2000s. In accordance with the West Coast MC, 50 Cent and Jimmy Iovine paid him $1 million to cease utilizing the phrase after he trademarked it.
“They’re it like a enterprise fully, not personalizing every particular person. They’re simply promoting music,” 50 Cent informed Schulz whereas discussing UMG’s practices. “They don’t care about [personal relationships]. You’ll [take it] personally since you really feel such as you made them a lot cash. They’ll go, ‘No, it’s not private in any respect.’”
In November, Drake filed two petitions towards UMG. The primary alleged that the music conglomerate used bots, payola and different unlawful strategies to artificially prop up Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” streams. The second authorized motion was over the corporate distributing the aforementioned document regardless of figuring out that it “falsely” accused him of being a pedophile.
Elsewhere within the sit-down, Fif mentioned why he rides so laborious for the “God’s Plan” hitmaker regardless of Lamar being related to his circle by means of Dr. Dre. “You see how [Drake is] lashing at all people? That doesn’t really feel like 50 Cent? That’s what that have [comes from],” the rap mogul mentioned.
He went on to counsel that the authorized actions towards UMG are an try to dam Lamar from performing “Not Like Us” on the Tremendous Bowl LIX in February 2025: “If it’s for what I feel it’s for, then I perceive it. [Drake is trying] to forestall the track from being performed on the Tremendous Bowl as a result of it might do additional harm.”