Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the rapper’s lawsuit is a “misguided attempt to salve his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle that he provoked.

The label says followers of the rap battle understand that Kendrick Lamar was exaggerating in the song accusing Drake of pedophilia.

In a motion filed on Monday, March 17, Universal Music Group fired back at the Canadian rapper calling his allegations “meritless”

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

As its title implies, I Am Music is an argument for his status as an era-defining talent and a wholly unique pop star