{"id":193445,"date":"2025-10-09T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/a-timeline-of-drakes-legal-action-since-kendrick-lamar-dropped-not-like-us-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:14:01","slug":"a-timeline-of-drakes-legal-action-since-kendrick-lamar-dropped-not-like-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/a-timeline-of-drakes-legal-action-since-kendrick-lamar-dropped-not-like-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Timeline of Drake\u2019s Legal Action Since Kendrick Lamar Dropped \u2018Not Like\u00a0Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWhen Drake<\/a> and Kendrick Lamar<\/a> first started duking it out through a series of hard-hitting diss tracks<\/a> in the spring of 2024, no one could\u2019ve predicted that the back-and-forth would soon become one of hip-hop\u2019s most historic rap beefs on record \u2014 much less one of the music industry\u2019s biggest legal battles.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut what started as a slow-burning feud <\/a>that largely simmered under the surface, relegated to stray jabs in songs here and there, eventually boiled over into an all-out war of words when Drizzy dropped \u201cPush Ups\u201d in May, followed by more tracks such as \u201cTaylor Made Freestyle\u201d and \u201cFamily Matters.\u201d Dot countered each of them with searing snipes of his own on \u201cEuphoria,\u201d \u201c6:16 in L.A.\u201d and \u201cMeet the Grahams,\u201d but it was when he unleashed his Billboard Hot 100<\/a> chart-topper \u201cNot Like Us\u201d that Drake decided things had gone too far.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was the success of that song \u2014 and its lyrics in which Lamar accuses his target of being a \u201ccertified pedophile\u201d \u2014 that later led to the Toronto native to take matters to court. Through a series of legal filings, Drake has taken aim at Universal Music Group, Spotify and iHeartRadio over accusations of streaming manipulation, defamation and conspiracy, shocking the public at every turn and further deepening his rift with the Compton rapper in the process. Remember when the pair collaborated on 2013\u2019s \u201cBuried Alive Interlude\u201d? That\u2019s ancient history now.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Drake\u2019s legal journey plays out, Billboard <\/em>is keeping track of every update to the \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d musician\u2019s escalating legal crusade. Keep reading to see everything that\u2019s happened so far since the release of \u201cNot Like Us\u201d below.<\/p>\n