UMG allegedly threatened to kill Pop Smoke ‘s posthumous debut album over their belief that a Pusha T guest verse featured a diss aimed at Drake .

According to Steven Victor, who manages Pusha and signed Pop to his Victor Victor Worldwide imprint, UMG wanted to censor the verse.

He said to Billboard : “What happened on the Pop Smoke song is that UMG thought that he was dissing Drake on that song. He wasn’t, but they thought he was. Pop Smoke was released on my label and obviously I managed Pusha. So they came to me and said, ‘We’re not going to put this out now, unless you get Pusha to change these lyrics.’ Even though it has nothing to do with Pop Smoke, they’re like, ‘Either he changes these lyrics, or we’re not putting the album out.’

Victor added: “What happened to freedom

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