In a motion filed on Monday, March 17, Universal Music Group fired back at the Canadian rapper calling his allegations “meritless”Universal Music Group is firing back at Drake after he filed a lawsuit against them for alleged defamation.

Universal Music Group has filed a scathing motion to dismiss Drake’s New York lawsuit against them for promoting Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” stating that he’s only suing because he “lost a rap battle” and took legal action to “salve his wounds.

Drake’s record label files to dismiss rapper’s ‘misguided’ lawsuit over ‘Not Like Us’ lyrics - Universal Music Group slammed Drake’s lawsuit, calling it a ‘misguided attempt to salve his wounds’