50 Cent believes everything Drake also benefited from everything he is accusing UMG of doing to Kendrick Lamar.
Drake made headlines after he filed a lawsuit against UMG after his beef with Kendrick Lamar. He alleged in a court filing on November 25th, that Universal Music Group falsely pumped up the popularity on Spotify and other streaming services of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” a song that viciously attacked Drake amid a bitter feud between the two hip-hop superstars. The Toronto rapper also accused UMG of stacking employees who are loyal to him in an attempt to further push their agenda against him.
UMG released a statement just three hours after Drake’s lawsuit dropped claiming they can’t do anything to undermine any of their artists, and fans choose the music they want to hear.
50 Cent in an interview with Big Boy’s Neighborhood gave his opinion about Drake’s lawsuit and UMG, and why Drake has so many opps.
“I think it’s a point where you win repeatedly to the audience, and even the artist community is like if you win again ‘how am I gonna have my chance to win’… So they’ll rather see Kendrick in that spot.”
He said.
The Queens rapper also believes Drake is right in his lawsuit but says he can’t blame UMG because he also benefited from the same thing.
“Whatever he’s saying the system has done, they’ve done it. They’re guilty of what he said they did.” said 50 Cent. “But while I’m at the Interscope, there are G-Unit and G-Unot at the same time. The same system with the same person delivering the record telling you to play 50 Cent, delivering the records telling you to play The Game. And it’s just business. They’re looking at it like business. But everything he said they did for Kendrick Lamar, they did for him”
He continued.
“Not Like Us” which was released in May, during the height of Kendrick and Drake’s diss track feud continues to hit incredible numbers despite Drake’s lawsuit, with the song recently clocking 1 Billion streams on Spotify just 250 days after release. It became the first-ever diss track to record this milestone.
The song was distributed by UMG’s Interscope Records, which also licenses Kendrick’s multimedia company, pgLang. Drake has also been on the UMG roster throughout his mainstream career, first as an act on Young Money Entertainment, which was distributed by Republic Records, and before signing directly to Republic Records which is part of the Universal Music Group.
