"In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No payments were made — by either one of us," iHeart said.

Drake has made a major chess move in exchange for documents in his lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us.” Drake Drops iHeartMedia From Texas Court Probe On Monday (March 3), Rolling Stone reported iHeartMedia is no longer a defendant in Drake’s probe into alleged payola in connection to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.

The rapper, who settled with iHeartMedia, suspects that the major label made secret payments and offered reduced licensing rates to third parties to promote the song.