Diss Tracks and Drake: A Deep Dive

OA1093 - In this episode recorded on Thanksgiving Day, two vegetarians carve up the Canadian turkey born Aubrey Drake Graham. Are Drake’s exploratory legal actions against Universal Music in response to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” the weakest move in the history of rap beefs? Matt shares some of his favorite diss tracks before we consider these filings and how Drake thought he could possibly come out of this looking good. We also take a look at Jack Smith’s motion to dismiss both of the federal criminal cases against the 47th President-elect of the United States,  and what we can learn about the possible future (?) of these cases from both his motion and DC federal judge Tanya Chutkan’s order granting it. Finally, in today’s footnote Thomas provides valuable evidence for the prospective plaintiffs in a cease and desist demand recently made against the ONLY guitar endorsed by Donald Trump.

• Government’s Motion to Dismiss in U.S. v. Trump (11/25/240

• Judge Chutkan’s order on government’s motion to dismiss U.S. v. Trump (11/25/24)

• OLC memo on immunity for sitting presidents (10/16/2000)

• OLC memo on presidential self-pardons (8/5/1974)

• Verified Petition in Frozen Moments LLC v UMG/Spotify  (NY Drake payola filing)(11/25/24)

• Verified Petition seeking depositions in TX (TX Drake defamation filing)(11/25/24)

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