Drake and San Antonio-based iHeartMedia have agreed to a settlement in the rapper's "Not Like Us" petition against the company and UMG.
"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," iHeart said.
Texas-based iHeartMedia says it settled its legal dispute with Drake over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us" after demonstrating that it "did nothing wrong."
The Toronto rapper claimed that Universal Music Group made payments to iHeartMedia for airtime of Lamar's Grammy-winning diss track.
HeartMedia has settled a court dispute with Drake over allegations the radio network received “payola” from Universal Music Group (UMG) to play Kendrick Lamar’s anti-Drake diss track Not Like Us. In a filing on Thursday (February 27) with the Bexar County District Court in San Antonio,
Drake has alleged UMG engaged in “irregular and inappropriate business practices” to get radio airplay for “Not Like Us.”
Drake and iHeartMedia "reached an amicable resolution" in a legal spat over alleged payola to boost Kendrick Lamar's diss track against him, "Not Like Us."
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Drake alleged in Texas court that Universal Music funneled payments to iHeartMedia for promotion of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."