Whereas Drake’s followers have been having a ball with the Canadian rapper’s lately launched monitor dissing fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar, the authorized workforce representing Tupac Shakur is threatening to take authorized motion if the tune isn’t pulled off the web.

Billboard experiences that late rapper Tupac’s authorized workforce is able to take Drake to court docket over the discharge of “Taylor Made,” Drake’s lately launched tune that includes the AI-generated voices of Shakur and Snoop Dogg. In a press release about Drake’s creation of “Taylor Made,” litigator Howard King referred to as the tune a “blatant abuse of the legacy of one of many biggest hip-hop artists of all time” and stated the Shakur property by no means cleared using Tupac’s voice.

“The Property is deeply dismayed and disenchanted by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and character,” King stated. “The Property would by no means have given its approval for this use.”

For the previous few weeks, quite a few rap artists, together with Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole, have been pointedly attacking each other (and entertaining all people else) by way of their music after years of simmering tensions over — amongst different issues — who’s the largest within the recreation. In response to “Like That,” Future’s lately launched tune that includes Lamar during which he calls Drake out for making earlier jabs, Drake dropped “Push Ups,” a monitor poking enjoyable at Lamar’s top, shoe measurement, and the main points of his outdated deal at High Dawg Leisure. 

Slightly than ready for a response, Drake additionally debuted “Taylor Made” on April nineteenth, and the tune instantly raised eyebrows — much less so for its reference to Taylor Swift and extra so for its distinguished use of voices from West Coast rappers (one among whom is kind of lifeless) who didn’t appear to be concerned in any of the continuing beef. Following the discharge of “Taylor Made,” Snoop uploaded a video to Instagram with an assortment of emoji seemingly indicating bemusement.

Tupac’s property needs “Taylor Made” pulled inside 24 hours, and if Drake made the tune with out their permission, we would simply see it disappear. However as a lot as this beef has been about garnering consideration, Drake might be very prepared to go to court docket to make his case.