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.

In the latest pushback from Universal Music Group in Drake's defamation lawsuit against the company over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track, UMG has asked a federal judge to stop all discovery in the case,

In a court filing Monday, Universal Music Group stated that Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated.”