Kanye West has shown his support for Drake amidst their complicated friendship, especially as Drake takes on Universal Music Group in a legal battle.
In a recent video making rounds on social media, Kanye West expresses his loyalty to Drake and commends him for facing the industry giant after his past issues with Kendrick Lamar.
“I’m so happy right now, you don’t understand with this UMG, Drake, Kendrick situation, Super Bowl, Grammys,” Kanye West said in the clip.
“This shit was driving me, and you know where it should be driving me, but this is the biggest victory in music history, right here. I’m never finna call Drake out of his name. I’m Team Drake, 100%. And Team Kendrick, and Team All of Us… Kendrick needs to be going at UMG at this point. This is what I said in my version of ‘Like That.’ I said, ‘Luician, your life time deal …’ Like, let’s stop aiming all this at each other. You have no idea. Everything is worth everything for a moment like this. Where we stop going at each other and we go at the slave masters.”
Drake has escalated his lawsuit against UMG to now include Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance of “Not Like Us,” alleging that UMG endorsed the performance which implied he engages in predatory behavior.
Despite no explicit language used by Lamar, Drake argues that the insinuation was clear and reached a wide audience of over 133 million viewers.
