A judge has tossed Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), filed against the label after it released Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning track “Not Like Us.”
Drake contended that UMG spread defamatory claims that he was a pedophile, made secret payments, and offered reduced licensing rates to promote Lamar’s diss track.
But U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas dismissed Drake’s case on Thursday, saying that Lamar’s track is “nonactionable opinion” and not defamation.
Drake was signed to Republic Records and Lamar was with Interscope Records. But both are under the UMG umbrella. So, Drake was more-or-less suing his own label.
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