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Oct 9 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday dismissed superstar rapper Drake's defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us" against Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), ...

A federal judge dismissed Drake‘s defamation lawsuit against his own record label on Thursday. The suit, brought after the Canadian rapper was on the losing end of a rap beef with Super Bowl halftime ...

The decision adds to the Second Circuit’s growing body of law on defamation claims involving rap lyrics, and offers a thorough analysis of how “rap battles” are interpreted under the law. In spring ...

On Thursday, Federal Judge Jeannette A. Vargas dismissed Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us”. The lawsuit alleged that UMG intentionally ...

A federal judge tossed out a defamation lawsuit that Drake brought against Universal Music Group on Thursday, ruling that lyrics branding the superstar as a pedophile in Kendrick Lamar's dis track ...

Drake has lost his defamation suit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” with a federal judge ruling that the allegedly defamatory statements in the hit diss track ...

A short excerpt from Judge Jeannete Vargas's long opinion in Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc.; read the full opinion for more: This case arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre's ...

Judge Jeannette A. Vargas threw out Drake's lawsuit against Universal Music Group, opining that Lamar's diss track "can only reasonably be understood as opinion." Drake's defamation lawsuit over ...

Drake has now legally been declared the loser in history's most famous rap beef. A federal judge dismissed Drake's lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group, in which he ...

Update 12/6/25 11:35 p.m. ET: Santa must’ve came early, because Drake’s request for his “Not Like Us” suit to be pushed til after the holiday was approved. The rapper’s brief is now due on Jan. 26, ...