Hip Hop and Calypso: Exploring Defamation and Artistic Expression

While social commentary may be a genre of Calypso. Can one say that hyperbolic insults thrown at Calypsonians is a sub-genre? This is the type of argument being canvased by UGM’s legal team in defence of a suit brought by Aubrey Drake Graham (Drake) against Universal Music Group which is responsible for promoting Lamar’s music. (Drake and Lamar belong to the same label under different divisions).
Some of the lines in Lamar’s song Not Like Us being “Say Drake I hear yuh like ‘em young, You better never go to cell block one, To any girl that talk to him and they in love, Just make sure you hide your little sister from him.

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