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.

In a motion filed on Monday, March 17, Universal Music Group fired back at the Canadian rapper calling his allegations “meritless”Universal Music Group is firing back at Drake after he filed a lawsuit against them for alleged defamation.

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,