Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the rapper’s lawsuit is a “misguided attempt to salve his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle that he provoked.

Universal Music Group filed its first response to Drake’s defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us," calling it "meritless."

Universal Music Group is seeking dismissal of Drake’s suit against them—his label—and is not holding back on its opinion of