The summer single, one of several to come from a feud with fellow rapper Drake, was one of the biggest songs of 2024, hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100.

In a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, Drake accused Universal Music Group of putting his life and reputation at risk by releasing and promoting the popular diss track.

Drake's legal team said Universal Music Group used its resources to "elevate a dangerous and inflammatory message that was designed to assassinate Drake’s character."

Drake filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his and Kendrick Lamar’s record label Universal Music Group, claiming Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” defamed Drake by calling him a “certified pedophile”—a major escalation of the months-long feud between the two rappers.

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Drake has withdrawn the petition he raised accusing Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) of illegally boosting Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track “Not Like Us.” According to documents filed with the New York Supreme Court on Tuesday,

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

The Toronto rapper is suing Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging that the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar's 2024 hit threatened his life and career.

Drake has dropped legal action against Spotify and Universal Music after previously filing a lawsuit accusing the companies of manipulating the streaming services to boost Kendrick Lamar's song

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.