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Every Creator’s Reaction to Being Named in Drake’s UMG Lawsuit

Don’t you dare dance to “Not Like Us” on Drake’s watch.

Maddie Gee

It’s only January, but it’s already been a long year for Drake. Refusing to take a break and lick his wounds from the rap battle with K. Dot at his Texas cosplay ranch, Drizzy decided to go full “Karen” mode. In November, he filed a “pre-action petition” against UMG and Spotify, accusing the companies of boosting the popularity of “Not Like Us.”

Fast-forward to the end of January. Although his court date was fast approaching, Drake and his team pulled the petition against UMG and Spotify, pivoting to go straight for the label itself.

On January 15, Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC dropped a fresh federal lawsuit against UMG, claiming defamation and harassment. The lawsuit accuses the label of knowing that Lamar’s lyrics and the images in the music video were “false and dangerous” and that UMG “chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists.”

At least Kendrick Lamar is no longer the star of Drake’s latest legal fit. Instead, the rapper has thrown some of the biggest content creators online, like Kai Cenat and RDCGaming, under the bus.

 

What exactly is Drake alleging these creators did?

According to the lawsuit, UMG allegedly whitelisted Drake’s track “Not Like Us,” which basically means they removed copyright restrictions on platforms like Twitch and YouTube. The move supposedly goes against UMG’s own “formal ban.” 

The lawsuit goes even further, claiming UMG’s whitelisting wasn’t some innocent accident but rather a devious plot to spread the song and its defamatory content as far and wide as possible with the alleged help of the creators below.

 

  • Zias and B. Lou
  • No Life Shaq
  • Cartier Family
  • Kai Cenat
  • RDCgaming

 

How did creators react?

After the lawsuit was officially filed on January 15, the creators who were called out slowly started posting online to let their fans (and the world) know what they thought about Drake’s latest antics.

Zias and B. Lou

Initially confused by the lawsuit, Zias of Zias and B. Lou revealed, in their stream the day the news broke, that he and his family were now receiving threats from numerous people.

Zias told Rolling Stone that while UMG had whitelisted “a lot of our videos at my request,” he does not think “Not Like Us” was whitelisted for creators from the start. That didn’t stop them from getting a taste of the monetized sweet life—even if their reaction video only lasted a week before it was demonetized. Still, Zias insists that the checks weren’t about to change how they felt about the track.

Also, posting reactions to Drake’s disses during the rap beef, Zias stated that “it wouldn’t have made a difference in our reaction because, in the reaction community, we react regardless of it getting copyrighted or not … Nobody was going to be like, ‘Oh, they letting us make money from it. Let’s react a certain way.’”

“What if some of his fans that rocked with us, [now] that they saying we reacted a certain way for some bread — now they’re like, ‘Oh, well we ain’t rocking with them no more.’ … I was still rocking with Drake … That kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little bit,” B. Lou said. 

The content creator obviously had more to get off of his chest, dropping the diss track “Certified Pssy Boy” on January 17.

 

No Life Shaq

No Life Shaq also dropped a video the same day that the lawsuit dropped titled “DRAKE SNITCHED ON ME!” Laughing at the unfolding situation, he expressed his disbelief to everyone tuning in.

“There’s no way you got us in this case, dog. N**** we chillin’ and having fun. And you got us listed in a case … This gotta be the softest n**** ever, dog. Drake, you ain’t hip-hop, bro. There’s no way … We was going to react to it anyway, whether we got paid or not …” Shaq said.

Since the stream, he has been shutting down the haters online who think streamers’ reactions to the lawsuit are clout-chasing.

CartierFamily

With their more recent content focusing on conservative commentary and the Trump presidency, the CartierFamily posted a quick reaction on X before going on with their day.

Kai Cenat

When it comes to unfiltered opinions, we can always count on Kai Cenat to serve them directly. Before going live with his full thoughts, a clip from an earlier stream resurfaced where Drake told Cenat to “stay on stream” to react to his diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar (allegedly “Family Matters”). But now, apparently, Cenat’s viral reaction videos have landed him in the middle of a lawsuit — and the math just isn’t adding up.

Cenat eventually caught up with the news while live on stream, initially thinking that he was getting sued. 

“Wait, why am I in this shit … I was told to stay on stream … Is he just using us as an example of like spreading misinformation type shit?” Cenat asked the chat.

Then, responding to a comment stating that “UMG slid you some bread,” Cenat confirmed that “n***** ate that week, I am not even going to lie, chat … All my shit has been monetized, I am going to keep it a whole stack…”

RDCgaming

Since the beef kicked off, RDCWorld founder Mark Phillips and his crew have been dropping skits left and right, and when Drake’s lawsuit hit, he didn’t miss a beat. While streaming on Twitch, Phillips turned his reaction into an impromptu life lesson.

“One thing I learned in my life is this: The biggest L’s come from not knowing how to take an L … I honestly believe that shit. Some n***** just gotta take an L and move on. Everybody take L’s! Everybody! Every single person on this Earth takes L’s, so we need to just learn how to take them. But I ain’t gonna lie—us in the Black community, me included—when you get an L, bro, it’s just like, ‘Man, hell no!’ You just get mad… But the further you go with not accepting the L, the more L’s you will obtain…” Phillips said.