Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s ongoing feud has taken a new turn today as the legendary Rapper Tupac’s estate has sent an official warning to the Canadian star who launched his shocking diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” against Kendrick last weekend by using AI vocals of Pac and Snoop Dogg. The estate has demanded that he must confirm that he will pull down his “Taylor Made Freestyle” in less than 24 hours or the estate would “pursue all of its legal remedies” against him.
The track is only available on Drake’s Instagram and Twitter which includes Tupac and Snoop Dogg’s voices taunting Lamar to respond with lines such as “Kendrick we need ya, the west coast savior Engraving your name in some hip-hop history
If you deal with this viciously/You seem a little nervous about all the publicity/Fuck this Canadian light skin, Dot
We need a no-debated West Coast victory, man/Call him a bitch for me.”
Taylor Made Freestyle pic.twitter.com/OrcdsIb8Wf
— Drizzy (@Drake) April 20, 2024
Litigator Howard King told Drake in a letter obtained by Billboard “The Estate is deeply dismayed and disappointed by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and personality, Not only is the record a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights, it is also a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time.
“The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice against Kendrick Lamar, a good friend to the Estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult,” King wrote.
King wrote, before demanding that Drake also provide “a detailed explanation for how the sound-alike was created and the persons or company that created it, including all recordings and other data ‘scraped’ or used.”
“If you comply, the estate will consider whether an informal negotiation to resolve this matter makes sense,” King wrote. “If you do not comply, our client has authorized this firm to pursue all of its legal remedies including, but not limited to, an action for violation of … the estate’s copyright, publicity, and personality rights and the resulting damages, injunctive relief, and punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.”
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Update: Drake has removed the diss track from his social media platforms X fka Twitter and Instagram.