Drake slammed with $10 million lawsuit for alleged copyright violation on 'Honestly, Nevermind'

"It's such a blatant rip and sample from our client’s song."

It's been a tough month to be Drake. The rapper has been in the middle of seemingly infinite legal disputes on both sides. Now, he's back on the defensive and is being sued for $10 million for an alleged infringement of copyright surrounding his 2022 record Honestly, Nevermind.

Ghanian rapper Obrafour is claiming that he was sampled on the track 'Calling My Name' without permission, with his legal representative Imran H. Ansari saying: "It's such a blatant rip and sample from our client’s song."

Obrafour claims to have received an email from Republic Records in June 2022 trying to clear the sample, but before he had even had the opportunity to respond, the record was already being released.

The surprise drop of Honestly, Nevermind shook the entire musical world last year, but it startled his legal team even more, with Ansari continuing on to say: "Then Drake dropped the sort of secret album, if you will, without getting the right clearances owned by my client."

Drake's team has also put on the offensive in recent weeks. Fake AI-generated verses from the rapper have been going viral all over social media, and Drake said that the "final straw" was hit when a deep-fake version of him rapping "Munch" by Ice Spice went viral. Universal Music Group is now asking all streaming services to block AI companies from accessing the music of their roster.

Additionally, the AI song that put fake versions of Drake and the Weeknd on the same track has been removed from Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and Tidal and is currently in the process of being removed from TikTok and YouTube as well.

There's still a long road ahead for Drake on both issues, and it's not looking brighter any time soon.

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