Lorenzo Hall 🍉
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![The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreihweeg5hq7hmblg66yvg5bwwzd7kdfmzu7v4hvfswwr6kws4v6iku@jpeg)
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![Plaintiff’s arguments that the lyrics to “Not Like Us” can be read to suggest Lamar’s reliance upon undisclosed facts is unavailing. Plaintiff first posits that the line, “Say Drake, I hear you like ‘em young,” indicates that Lamar had “heard” from outside sources evidence confirming that Drake is a pedophile. Opp’n Br. at 17. As discussed infra, however, that ignores that this line is reasonably understood to be a direct response to Drake’s challenge to Lamar in “Taylor Made Freestyle” to
“[t]alk about [Drake] likin’ young girls/. . . Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it’s gotta
be true.” Req. J. Not., Ex. I. This lyric clearly prods Lamar to discuss preexisting
rumors about Drake’s interest in minors. 5 Lamar’s responsive lyrics are thus akin
to the accusation of pedophilia in Torain that the Second Circuit concluded
constituted pure opinion. There, the Second Circuit concluded that a reasonable
person would understand based on the context that the defendant disk jockey was
using the term “pedophile” in response to directly pertinent comments made by
plaintiff during their “war of words,” and was not relying upon undisclosed facts.
279 F. App’x at 47.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreifq2rt3myv4zimjdo4oloullu3kubatd4l3ydkveknuyfet3pezgy@jpeg)
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