A U.S. federal judge has dismissed Drake's defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us." The judge ruled that the song's lyrics are opinions ...

A federal judge in New York dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against his own label Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” finding that the rapper’s lyrics in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drake lost, but artistic freedom won last week when a federal court in New York dismissed the rapper’s case against UMG Recordings. The decision did more than end one of rap’s most publicized legal ...