Overview

• Akademiks shared video from his deposition, where Roc Nation lawyers pressed him on payments from labels and whether he was compensated to disparage Megan Thee Stallion.
• He said he has taken promotional money from many labels and specifically named Roc Nation, while insisting he has never been paid to stay quiet or to attack an artist.
• Under questioning, he confirmed he was not at the party, in the car, or on the street during the 2020 shooting and was not a witness to the incident.
• In the footage, he called Megan Thee Stallion “a liar,” said he accepts the jury’s guilty verdict for Tory Lanez, and argued the verdict does not prove jurors believed all of her testimony.
• He claimed the attorneys accidentally exposed a Slack chat that included negative messages about him, and he also answered questions about any financial ties to Drake, saying the rapper has never sent him money, as the broader inquiry relates to Megan’s suit against blogger Milagro Cooper.