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.

Drake's label, Universal Music Group, is blasting the rapper as a bitter loser who wants his rap battles one-sided. In a new motion to dismiss Drake's defamation lawsuit against his own label, UMG says the Canadian-born rapper levied his own "vitriolic and incendiary" diss tracks against nemesis Kendrick Lamar before Lamar released his "hyperbolic" reply "Not Like Us" on the men's shared label.

Universal Music Group says the defamation lawsuit filed by Drake over Kendrick Lamar's song "Not Like Us" is "baseless."