Good news for Drake! The two musicians who filed a lawsuit against Drake and Chris Brown last year for copyright infringement over their song "No Guidance" have dismissed Champagne Papi from the case; here's what happened.
According to court documents obtained by Complex, Aubrey Drake Graham is "dismissed with prejudice and without costs or attorneys' fees as against any party."
The judge handling the case also poked fun at the situation by referencing one of the rapper's songs, saying in the documents, "In dismissing this case, the Court notes that Mr. Graham started from the bottom-being named as a defendant-now we're here-a dismissal with prejudice."
As of this writing, Chris Brown is still a defendant in the case and there was no explanation as to why Drake was dropped from the lawsuit.
A few months ago, Plaintiff Braindon Cooper alleged the two artists were "both egotistical and without any legal basis whatsoever" to contend that they don't have access to the song "I Love Your Dress," which he claimed that the rapper and Breezy copied for their song "No Guidance."
The following month, Chris Brown's lawyers responded to the allegations in a new filing, saying the situation is "not a close call" as posting a song online means the track is one out of 82 million songs on Spotify.
Breezy's attorney, James G. Sammatro, rejected Cooper's basis that he sent his song to Canadian A&R Mic Tee in 2019. The company is tied with Drake's then label, Cash Money Records.
In addition, the March filing has requested for the case to be dismissed "in its entirety with prejudice."
Earlier this year, Brown and Drake slammed the lawsuit, saying the claims were "baseless" and there was no credible explanation of how the stars would have accessed the "obscure" track they were accused of ripping off.
Aside from Cooper, producer Timothy Valentine is also involved in the case. The duo claimed that the two songs had the same beat patterns, melody, and lyrics in the hook part of "No Guidance."
They alleged that the tracks are "so strikingly familiar that they cannot be purely coincidental.
This is not Drake's lawsuit, as he also faced a case last month for his songs "In My Feelings" and "Nice For What."
The copyright lawsuit claimed that the rapper illegally sampled a track of a New Orleans artist's instrumental beat.
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