N.O.R.E. is back in the news after an old interview clip resurfaced that appeared to relate to current events.
On Wednesday (November 27), an old, undated video of the rapper and Drink Champs host was posted to social media by producer and writer J. Money, and shortly afterwards reposted on Drink Champs’ official Facebook page.
The clip finds N.O.R.E. complaining that he had been “sued” over rap “battles” — comments that many saw in a new light after Drake‘s legal filings over Universal Music Group, Spotify, and iHeartRadio’s alleged handling of Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us.”
“The streets is the streets,” N.O.R.E. says in the clip. “This is the industry. N-ggas wanna bring they lawyers to muthafucking battles, man. Don’t bring your lawyer. Bring your gat or bring your clique.”
“You sound like you got some personal experience,” the host responds.
“Personally,” N.O.R.E. agrees. “I got sued three times from bitch-ass n-ggas. Three times! They not ghetto celebrities. You tellin’. N-ggas know who you are. You sued me.”
N.O.R.E. did not specify who he was talking about. Over the years, he has beefed with a number of artists including Nas, Prodigy and Tragedy Khadafi.
Check the clip out below.
Drake first took action over “Not Like Us” on Monday (November 25) when he filed legal documents accusing Universal Music Group and Spotify of coming together to fake the popularity of Kendrick Lamar‘s diss song against him.
According to The Independent, Drizzy’s legal team filed a “pre-action” petition in a Manhattan court, alleging UMG used bots, payola and other methods to inflate the chart-topping song. This is not a lawsuit, but a step required by New York State to secure information before officially filing.
“UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices,” the docs read. “It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves.”
The filing also alleges that the label paid Spotify to promote “Not Like Us” to users searching for unrelated songs and artists. Additionally, it claims UMG paid Apple to have Siri intentionally redirect users requesting songs from Drake’s catalog, instead offering “Not Like Us” as a result. It also claims the company used bots to burnish the song’s numbers.
Shortly afterwards, he dropped a second legal filing about “Not Like Us,” this one adding iHeartRadio to his list of alleged offenders — and bringing up the specter of suing for defamation over the Kendrick Lamar diss track.
NORE is a corporate coksuckiing lame cornball on the strength of just blackballing Necro alone. He’s def talented but strongly inclined to slob industry dik and bend over for anyone paying well. And CNN was ill but he cares fuck all about the underground and hip hop in general.
Necro got himself blackballed by being as disgusting, offensive, and repulsive as he possibly could be every chance he got. He’s a scumbag snuff film maker and horrorcore shock value slimeball who has to punch-in every other line because he can’t flow. He’s not missed. Him and RA the Rugged Man both cut from the same disgusting cloth.
i suppose if you’re a cornball extreme leftist idiot. Necro is one of the illest white rappers/producers to ever record. Not a huge fan of his whole body of work but you are cappin heavily and virtue signaling.
*also it just fyi was easy to spot you being biased from a mile away RA’s Uncommon Valor verse alone is legit. You’re just def or racist or trolling. Again, I personally don’t enjoy most of his catalog but saying he’s wack is categorically obtuse.
RA is a hugely talented and underappreciated lyricist. You’re either an absolute idiot or trolling… Either way, nobody needs to take your opinion seriously.
*Farts humorously*
KYS id plant.
@Storncloak are you as biased as you appear? Necro can rap better than Jack White easily and his production is better than 50% of Ye’s output. Agent Orange is an unsung hip hop classic and half of you fools don’t even know the history behind the chemical keys.
Necro isn’t the best in anything! Nerd UGHH rapper that never amounted to shit beyond some suburban white kids in arizona and other out of state places far from any reputable place of “urban streets” that fantasize about being in the hood and have this ego that because they listen to obscure talentless hacks in the underground world, that they know better than commercial heads. Everything necro, 7L esoteric, Cage, sage francis shit even jedi mind(VBD was decent) and every other corny ass white guy from that line up all corny attempts at giving white kids a means to discuss hip hop from an “entitled” point. 90% of ughh = Nerd rap and worth skipping over, and will never mark their way in to the hip hop books.
@hmmm Necro’s a great producer and a decent rapper. He made an entire album with Kool G Rap who obviously respects him and that trumps any counter-argument your elitist poser self has to offer. Also Cage is a decent rapper too, especially his early work. His first album is an underground hip hop classic (Agent Orange being the standout) and he’s also who Eminem stole the whole crazy white boy persona from. You are in no position to play hip hop gatekeeper. They are both hip hop and so is Jedi. It may not be your taste, but they’re already in the hip hop books. Slug as well. You’re biased just like NORE and in denial.
RA Rugged Man IS B.I.G. favorite rapper say what you want…#facts