• Drake’s recording label, Universal Music Group, has filed a motion to stop the artist’s amended lawsuit against them.
  • Drake filed suit against UMG, claiming the label engaged in defamation by promoting Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
  • The amendment filed in January said UMG willfully promoted K. Dot’s Super Bowl halftime performance of the diss track.
  • In a statement, UMG said, “As Drake concedes, Lamar’s Super Bowl performance did not include the lyric that Drake or his associates are ‘certified pedophiles’ (i.e., the alleged ‘Defamatory Material’ that is at the heart of this case).”
  • The statement added, “The focus of Drake’s new claims—that ‘the largest audience for a Super Bowl halftime show ever’ did not hear Lamar call Drake or his crew pedophiles—betrays this case for what it is: Drake’s attack on the commercial and creative success of the rap artist who defeated him, rather than the content of Lamar’s lyrics.”

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