{"id":77886,"date":"2025-08-18T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77886\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:26:11","slug":"drake-seeks-interscope-ceos-financial-records-in-umg-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77886\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Seeks Interscope CEO’s Financial Records In UMG Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More specifically, according to AllHipHop,<\/a> Drizzy and his legal team are seeking Interscope CEO John Janick’s compensation records over the last five years. These financial documents would include salary, bonus, and incentive pay information, as well as the label’s monthly profits and revenue starting from 2020 onward. All of this is because the 6ix God and his lawyers are accusing Janick of having a financial incentive to boost the performance of the “Not Like Us” diss track.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but Drake wants to see Kendrick Lamar’s UMG contract<\/a> as well, and a valuation of the Compton lyricist’s catalog as far back as January of 2020. Attorney Rollin A. Ransom<\/a> issued a statement to U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeannette Vargas about these allegedly “intrusive, irrelevant, and designed-to-harass” requests.<\/p>\n

“Drake seeks Interscope CEO John Janick\u2019s private and highly confidential compensation details going back to 2021, four years before \u2018Not Like Us\u2019 was even released,” he wrote. “Yet Drake makes no attempt to explain how his intrusive request for five years\u2019 worth of individual compensation records is conceivably relevant or proportional to this case, which centers on the release and promotion of a single track and music video in 2024. There is none.”<\/p>\n

Drake UMG Lawsuit
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Nov 17, 2023; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Recording artist Drake wears headphones to conduct an in-game media interview while watching the Toronto Raptors host the Boston Celtics at Scotiabank Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports via Imagn Images <\/p>\n

Drake’s UMG defamation lawsuit over “Not Like Us”<\/a> accuses the label of failing to protect his reputation by failing to use their power to block the diss track. As such, he alleges that the label defamed him by promoting and distributing this song and music video.<\/p>\n

While UMG already gave the plaintiff’s party part of Kendrick Lamar’s contract, they refuse to reveal the whole thing due to competitive trade secrets. The music industry giant claims Drake’s discovery requests<\/a> are a “fishing expedition” that wouldn’t actually be relevant in this case. We will see how Judge Vargas rules on UMG’s request for the court to deny these motions or privately review Kendrick’s contract and other documents before making a decision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More specifically, according to AllHipHop, Drizzy and his legal team are seeking Interscope CEO John Janick’s compensation records…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,5320,7982,75,47365,5321,47366,7983,341,44],"class_list":["post-77886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drake","tag-drake-umg-lawsuit","tag-entertainment","tag-financial-records","tag-hip-hop-news","tag-interscope-records","tag-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}