Drake's legal team said UMG used its resources to "elevate a dangerous and inflammatory message that was designed to assassinate Drake’s character."

The leading hip-hop superstar beef has been cranked up another notch, with Drake suing Universal Music Group for defamation over rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Drake’s ongoing legal battle with his label, Universal Music Group, has escalated. The artist filed a lawsuit in federal court today, accusing UMG of harming his reputation and endangering him for profit.

Drake's latest suit comes two months after he claimed UMG and Spotify inflated the streams of "Not Like Us," which is nominated for key Grammys.

The “Hotline Bling” hitmaker claims he was targeted at his Toronto home by armed intruders in “the 2024 equivalent of ‘Pizzagate’” after Kendrick Lamar branded him as pedophile in the lyrical barbs of “Not Like Us”.

Some people have surmised that Aubrey's legal tactic is a way to get the NFL and Apple Music, who sponsor the halftime show, to make Kendrick not include that song in his set. Drake's lawsuit only ups the ante on the Super Bowl banning the performance of the song in order to possibly avoid being thrown into the court case.

The scuffle between rap icons Drake and Kendrick Lamar has taken another turn after the former dropped the case against Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) over Lamar’s highly controversial single,

Drake had filed actions against Universal Music Group and Spotify, in which he claimed the two companies had colluded to artificially boost the streaming numbers of Lamar’s song “Not Like Us.” The song was one of several tracks released in a feud between Drake and Lamar.

The lawsuit accuses the record label of promoting the “false and malicious narrative” that Drake is a pedophile, which the rapper denies, by releasing "Not Like Us."

Drake has filed a defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group in federal court over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."