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 longtime label Universal Music Group on Monday sought a dismissal of his defamation lawsuit over its promotion of Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-winning single "Not Like Us," the biggest hit of a barrage of diss tracks between the two rappers.

Drake’s “unjustified claims against UMG are no more than [his] attempt to save face for his unsuccessful rap battle with Lamar,” Universal Music Group says