Universal Music Group said in a court filing that Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated” against Kendrick Lamar.

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.

In a motion filed on Monday, March 17, Universal Music Group fired back at the Canadian rapper calling his allegations “meritless”