iHeartMedia, a Texas company, has resolved its legal dispute with Drake regarding Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.” They claimed they were innocent during the process.
Drake had accused iHeartMedia of receiving improper payments from Universal Music Group to increase airtime for “Not Like Us.” Universal Music Group is the parent company of both Drake and Lamar.
iHeartMedia, headquartered in San Antonio, had initially chosen not to discuss the settlement that came to light in court records last week. However, the media organization released a new statement on Monday.
“In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No payments were made — by either one of us,” the statement said.
In a court document filed Thursday in Bexar County, where San Antonio is located, attorneys for Drake said the rapper and iHeartMedia had “reached an amicable resolution of the dispute” but did not offer any other information.
A hearing on a motion by UMG’s lawyers to dismiss Drake’s petition is scheduled for Wednesday.
Drake’s petition also alleges UMG knew “the song itself, as well as its accompanying album art and music video, attacked the character of another one of UMG’s most prominent artists, Drake, by falsely accusing him of being a sex offender.”
The feud between Drake, a 38-year-old Canadian rapper and singer and five-time Grammy winner, and Lamar, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner who headlined the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 9, is among the biggest in hip-hop in recent years.
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