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.

Issues between The Boy and King Push's camps began long before Drake even stepped into the rap game. A lot of their beef can be traced back to the early days of Cash Money Records, which was founded by brothers Ronald "Slim" Williams and Bryan "Birdman" Williams,

In the latest pushback from Universal Music Group in Drake's defamation lawsuit against the company over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track, UMG has asked a federal judge to stop all discovery in the case,