UMG files motion to dismiss Drake's updated suit

The lawyers for Drake’s label Universal Music Group has filed a new motion in court, and it calls for the complete dismissal of the amended lawsuit which has been going on since April.

For those unversed with the issue surrounding the song Not Like Us, its by Kendrick Lamar, and has been accused of defaming the rapper.

The original bid for a dismissal happened in March, then was amended to ‘focus on events that took place since the initial filing’ according to Variety.

The lawyers claimed, “As Drake concedes, Lamar’s Super Bowl performance did not include the lyric that Drake or his associates are ‘certified pedophiles’ (i.e., the alleged ‘Defamatory Material’ that is at the heart of this case).”

“The focus of Drake’s new claims—that ‘the largest audience for a Super Bowl halftime show ever’ did not hear Lamar call Drake or his crew pedophiles—betrays this case for what it is: Drake’s attack on the commercial and creative success of the rap artist who defeated him, rather than the content of Lamar’s lyrics.”

Later on a spokesperson also spoke to the outlet and explained, “Nowhere in the hundred-plus page ‘legal’ blather written by Drake’s lawyers do they bother to acknowledge that Drake himself has written and performed massively successful songs containing equally provocative taunts against other artists.”

“Nor do they mention that it was Drake who started this particular exchange.”

Before concluding, they added “apparently, Drake’s lawyers believe that when Drake willingly participates in a performative rap-battle of music and poetry, he can be ‘defamed’ even though he engages in the exact same form of creative expression.”