The veteran radio DJ shared an aggressive tweet in which he claimed Drake was justified in filing a pair of legal complaints against Universal Music Group and Spotify within a 24-hour period.
In a lengthy tweet, Flex alleges a widespread payola operation in the radio industry and laid out the fee scale for the lucrative operation he claims cripples independent artists. Flex’s defense of Drake follows the backlash the Toronto hitmaker received in the wake of filing a pair of legal filing’s in connection to the scathing diss track Lamar released in May. In the latest filing Drake Lamar of defamation for “falsely accusing him of being a sex offender.”
In the legal complaint, Drake notes that UMG knew “Not Like Us” falsely accused him of being a “certified pedophile” and “predator” but chose to move forward with the release anyway. Prior to the defamation legal complaint, a company Drake owns filed a legal complaint against Universal Music Group (UMG) and Spotify, accusing the two entities of engaging in an illegal scheme to artificially boost the streaming numbers for Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”
Filed in a Manhattan court, the “pre-action” petition by Frozen Moments LLC alleges deceptive business practices and violations of the RICO Act, typically reserved for organized crime cases.
