Universal Music Group has motioned to dismiss Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit. The label calls the action ‘legal blather’ and insists the nature of rap battles would forever be changed should the lawsuit proceed.

Drake’s amended lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track is ‘blather’ based on ‘wild conspiracies’ says Universal Music Group, which has entered a motion to dismiss it.

Universal Music Group has filed a motion to dismiss Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s hit track Not Like Us, arguing that the lyrics are “nonactionable opinion and rhetorical hyperbole” rather than assertions of fact.