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 suing Universal Music Group in federal court after accusing the music label of a "scheme" around Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."

When Drake and Kendrick Lamar first started duking it out through a series of hard-hitting diss tracks in the spring of 2024, no one could've predicted that the back-and-forth would soon become one of hip-hop's most historic rap beefs on record - much less one of the music industry's biggest legal battles.

Drake is battling his own record label over a song that is the lynchpin of a now legendary hip-hop feud.

The rapper Drake has sued Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging the music empire of promoting a diss track against him last spring.

Universal Music has posted a fiery response to Drake's lawsuit against it around Kendrick Lamar's brutal diss track, 'Not Like Us.'

Mustard caught up with PEOPLE about his work on Kendrick Lamar's latest album 'GNX,' the reaction to Lamar's No. 1 hit 'Not Like Us' and his hopes for the 67th Grammy Awards — where he's nominated for producer of the year,

Drake’s lawsuit filed against Universal Music Group has garnered a myriad of opinions. On Thursday (Jan. 16), the 81-page suit was explained on CBS Mornings, where legal contributor Caroline Polisi provided her honest opinion about the move.

After Drake and his lawyers filed an 81-page lawsuit against UMG, the 6 God alleges that the release of the song led to serious security threats, prompting him to withdraw his seven-year-old son, Adonis, from school.

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