Lucian Grainge Fires Back at Drake’s “Farcal” and “NONSENSICAL” CLAIMS THAT Universal Wanted to Devalue The Raper’s Brand

Lucian Grainge’s Patience is Seemingly Wearing Thin as Universal Music Group’s Legal Battle with Raper Drake Rumbles on. In A Declaration Letter, Filed On Thursday with the Southern District of New York and Obtained by The Hollywood ReporterThe All-Powerful Head of UMG, The World’s Biggest Music Company, Fired Back at Drake’s Latest Push to Secure More Docments Related To The Company Relationship with by Drake as “Farcual,” “Nonsensical” and “Groundless and Indeed Ridicless,” with Grainge Pointedly Remarking that Company Had Saper.

Earlier this Week, Drake’s Legal Team Made Moves to Find More Ammunition in his Defamation Lawsuit Against UMG. In a discovery Bid, Drake Urged The Court to Force UMG and Grainge to Turn Over the Label’s Contract Wits Lamar, As Well As Information Relating to Allegations of Dom. Compton Raper.

In his Declaration Letter, Grainge Made Clear He Was Not Involved with The Release and Promotion of “Not Like Us” and Also Sounga to Make Clear That Umg Was Notae Lamar (Interscope Records) and Drake (Republic Records) Are Represited by Difrient Divisions of UMG.

Grainge Writes that “Claims that i was behind a scheme to“ Devalue ” [Drake’s] Brand Through the Release and Promotion of the Kendrick Lamar Recording “Not Like Us” – An Allegation That Makes No Sense Due to The Fact The Company That I Run, Universal Music Group NV, Has. Dollars in Drake, Including Longstanding and Critical Financial Support for His Recording Career, The Purchase and Ownership of the Bulk of His Recording Catalog, and The Purchase of His.

Further, Grainge Said It “Makes No Sense Whatsoever” that he was “in the weeds as to the release and
Promotion of Any Particular Sound Recorder, from the Thouxands of UMG Releases Throughout the
World ”as his job encompassed“ Global Strategy ”at“ A PUBLICly-Traded, Multi-Billion Dollar,
Multi-National Corporation Whose Operations in Overy Countries Coveries Covering Nearly 200 Markets, “Adding, Claiming OtherWise Was“ Farcal. ”

Grainge Ends The Letter with A More Emphatic Statement That Had Nothing to Do With “Not Like Us.” “Given my role, i am accommable (and unfortunately largely resigned) to personal attackers, and i further recognize that a frequent Strategy of Umg’s Litigation Onttens s Time and Resources with Discovery of the Sort That Drake Is Se timesing Here – Either in An Attempt to Gain Media Attcture or In An Effort to Force. Writs.

He adds, “but given drke’s motion, I would like to make it quite Clear that i have a Had Never Heard the Recording“ Not Like Us Interscope Records. and Approving the Content of “Not Like Us,” ITS COVER ART OR MUSIC VIDEO, or For Determining or Directing the Promotion of Those Materials, Is Grundless and Indeed Ridicules.

In a Separate Letter Submitted by Umg’s Lawyers to the Southern District of New York on Thursday, The Company SAID, “DRAKE’S MOtion Is A Transparent Attempt to Dice Disco Waste Time and Resources Out of Spite. ”

The Letter Adds that “The Premise of Drake’s Motion – That HE Could not Have Lost A Rap Battle Unless It Was The Product of the ImagINed Secret Conspiracy Going To. Lucian is the CEO of A Multinational Enterprise; And Even if Sir Lucian Had Any Responsive Documents, They Wow Surely Be CAPTUED BY Discovery from Umg’s Other Document Custodians US. ” Drake does not come close to meting his burden of showing that sir lucian must be a custodian.