{"id":40502,"date":"2025-09-24T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40502\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T10:58:09","slug":"aap-rocky-shakes-his-head-at-drakes-umg-lawsuit-after-kendrick-lamar-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40502\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Shakes His Head At Drake&#8217;s UMG Lawsuit After Kendrick Lamar Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          A$AP Rocky<br \/>\n                          I Hate Drake Vs. Kendrick Turned Into A Lawsuit!!!<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published September 23, 2025 3:37 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250923_80f0b5a873794b1d86f74dd323c24515\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:aaf986b1-a19d-444f-a68f-8a0e939117a9\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/80f0b5a873794b1d86f74dd323c24515_md.jpg\" alt=\"asap rocky drake and kenrick lamar getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/drake\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a> blicked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> a bit on his fiery &#8220;Family Matters&#8221; diss at the height of his battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kendrick-lamar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick<\/a> and Rocky is finally revealing why he chose to stay silent &#8212; he didn&#8217;t want to add to the sideshow!!!<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a66047766\/asap-rocky-interview-2025\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Elle<\/a>, Rocky gave his two cents on 2024 Rap Wars &#8230; calling it &#8220;healthy for Hip-Hop&#8221; but thinks Kendrick and Drake&#8217;s beef got overcooked when guys such as Rick Ross, The Weeknd and JasonMartin began to chime in.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3f2456fe578942f1a526da4bb304549f_md.jpg\" alt=\"090425_rick_ross_drake_kal_v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    YouTube\/@rickrossmmgempire<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe battle was between Kendrick and Drake, not Drake and everybody else who might have said something at that time &#8212; and that\u2019s mainly why I fell back,&#8221; Rocky said.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Drake and Universal Music Group are currently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/08\/12\/drake-motion-umg-boss-lucian-grainge-not-like-us-docs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a legal slugfest<\/a> over the disses &#8212; and commercial push &#8212; of Kendrick&#8217;s &#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; and Rocky thinks the whole thing is completely un-jiggy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just hate the way it\u2019s turning out with [Drake] suing and all that,\u201d Rocky continued. \u201cWhat part of the game is that? What type of s**t is that? That\u2019s none of my business, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Rocky throws shots at the UMG lawsuit, Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Family Matters&#8221; bars &#8230; &#8220;I ain&#8217;t even know you rapped still &#8217;cause they only talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout your &#8216;fit again Probably gotta have a kid again &#8216;fore you think of droppin&#8217; any s**t again Even when you do drop, they gon&#8217; say you should&#8217;ve modeled &#8217;cause it&#8217;s mid again&#8221; &#8230; still burn bright in fans&#8217; minds.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A$AP Rocky\u2019s music video was deleted off YouTube after it flopped <\/p>\n<p>Despite premiering exclusively on Apple Music, A$AP Rocky\u2019s song did not appear in the platform\u2019s Top 200 chart \ud83d\udc80\ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FYkC6AG8QK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FYkC6AG8QK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkademiksTV\/status\/1941964786020888745?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 6, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkademiksTV\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@AkademiksTV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rocky released his &#8220;pray4dagang&#8221; single this summer to kick off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/10\/31\/asap-rocky-jogging-hollywood-working-new-album\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">his long-delayed<\/a> &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Dumb&#8221; album to little fanfare, and there hasn&#8217;t been a peep about the project since.<\/p>\n<p>This week, however, he released a new collection collaboration with Moncler Genius as he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/rihanna\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rihanna<\/a> are hoping their 3rd child will be a girl!!!<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky I Hate Drake Vs. 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