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Drake Hit With Major Blow as New Yale Legal Briefs Back Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”

Drake just hit another setback in his legal fight over “Not Like Us.” Two new legal briefs filed April 3 are backing UMG ...
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Universal Music Group insists Drake used label to attack Kendrick Lamar when it suited him, now wants a new standard – report

Universal Music Group is firing back at Drake with their response to the rapper’s appeal to revive his defamation lawsuit ...
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Yale Law School scholars back UMG in Drake’s ‘Not Like Us’ defamation fight, arguing rapper ‘consented’ to Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics

The Floyd Abrams Institute brief advances an argument that wasn’t previously central in the case: that Drake consented to the ...
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UMG hits back at Drake’s appeal in ‘Not Like Us’ lawsuit

Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s diss-track ‘Not Like Us’ was dismissed by a judge in October 2025 ...
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UMG Fires Back at Drake Appeal Over Kendrick Lamar Track, Calls Lawsuit “Hypocritical”

UMG has filed a new appellate brief pushing to keep the dismissal of Drake’s defamation lawsuit tied to Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.” In the 83 page filing su ...
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UMG fires back at Drake appeal over ‘Not Like Us’ case dismissal: 3 takeaways from response brief

UMG says Drake used AI-generated voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur “to goad Lamar into responding to his diss tracks.
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Why Are Drake and Kendrick Feuding? A Complete Timeline of the Rappers' Beef — Including the Diss Track That Scored Kendrick 5 Grammys

What followed was months of diss tracks back and forth until Lamar finally seemed to win the battle with the release of "Not Like Us," in which he called Drake a pedophile and a "colonizer." Reps for ...