Jim Jones UMG Spotify Power Move

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Rapper and producer Jim Jones doesn’t take issue with Drake’s legal petitions against UMG and Spotify, calling the decision a ‘power move.’

In an interview on Respectfully: The Justin Laboy Show, rapper and record producer Jim Jones weighed in on Drake filing petitions against Universal Music Group and Spotify over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track, “Not Like Us.” According to Jones, filing the petitions was a smart business move that won’t have an impact on Drake’s “street cred.”

“There’s a lot of things that go on with somebody doing a power move like that,” said Jones. “Any time a person like that does some shit that he knows […] it ain’t just small fries. But when you’re dealing with social media, people make everything seem smaller than what it is… they quick to say whatever.”

“Him doing that with business is no reflection of the streets, and he doesn’t feel, to me, like he is a street person like that, but I think that’s two different things,” he explained. “That’s straight business and shit like that.”

“I didn’t hear him saying he was suing Kendrick Lamar,” Jones continued. “I seen people sue AT&T and Pepsi and get a bag for it! People win lawsuits all the time against companies and nobody hold that against them. Is it any different than him suing Walmart? I really don’t care either-or, but thinking about what it is, like c’mon man, n—as sue people for dollars all the time.”

Drake filed a petition in November with allegations that UMG and Spotify orchestrated a scheme to “artificially inflate” the success of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track about him, “Not Like Us.” According to the petition, Drake believes the companies used bots and “payola schemes” to boost the release’s popularity. He then filed a second petition accusing UMG of defamation for allowing Lamar to release a track with lyrics that call him a “certified pedophile.”