Drake performs live on stage during day two of Wireless Festival 2025 at Finsbury Park on July 12, 2025 in London, England. Simone Joyner/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Drake is looking for ammunition in his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." In a discovery bid, Drake, born Aubrey Graham, urged the court to force UMG and chief executive Lucian Grainge to turn over the label's contract with Lamar, as well as information relating to allegations of domestic violence and other crimes committed by the Compton rapper. Lamar (Interscope Records) and Drake (Republic Records) are represented by different divisions of UMG. Their rap battle turned to court earlier this year when the Toronto rapper claimed that UMG spread defamatory assertions that he's a pedophile by making secret payments and offering reduced licensing rates to third parties to promote the song, with the goal of devaluing his music and brand amid contract negotiations. Related Stories News Daryl Hall and John Oates Legal Dispute Ends in Arbitration News Demi Lovato Says Reuniting With Jonas Brothers and Performing 'Camp Rock' Songs Was "Healing" The feud started with Drake's 2023 J. Cole collaboration "First Person Shooter," in which the pair proclaimed itself the "big three" alongside Lamar. In response, the Compton rapper rejected the idea that they're his equals in "Like That." Several diss tracks followed, with the musicians hurling increasingly spiteful insults at each other relating to accusations of domestic abuse, exploitation and pedophilia. It culminated with Lamar's release of the anthemic West Coast banger in May, leading to spectators crowning him the winner of the battle. Discovery is ongoing. UMG previously gave Drake's lawyers its contract with Lamar, but the Toronto rapper takes issue with redactions in the 22-page document, "rendering it virtually unreadable and incomprehensible," his legal team writes in the court filing. Other requests for documents from UMG include information relating to Interscope's monthly revenues and profits and the value of Lamar's recording catalogue for the past five-and-a-half years. Drake says it's relevant to his theory that the label was motivated by increasing profits derived from the allegedly defamatory statements in "Not Like Us." The Toronto rapper suspects that Grainge, who allegedly encouraged competition between UMG labels, played a major role in UMG's promotion of the song. He seeks communications and documents from him of allegations of domestic violence and other crimes committed by Lamar. In "Family Matters," Drake's penultimate diss track in his feud with Kendrick Lamar, the Toronto rapper says that his West Coast adversary abuses his wife and isn't the father to his son. "When you put your hands on your girl, Is it self-defense 'cause she bigger than you?" Drake sings. "They hired a crisis management team. To clean up the fact that you beat on your queen." UMG has maintained that Grainge has "no meaningful involvement in the matters and decisions at issue in this litigation." THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up THR, Esq Priscilla Presley Sued for $50 Million Amid Power Struggle Over Graceland Business Empire Jon Voight Jon Voight Effort for Federal Film Tax Deduction Gets Bipartisan Backers in Congress Disney Disney Entertainment Reorganizes Marketing Under Asad Ayaz, Shannon Ryan siriusxm What Really Could Be Killing Howard Stern's Show siriusxm Howard Stern Tries to Own the Rumor Mill of His SiriusXM Demise THR Cover Story Who the F*** Is Marc Maron Without Podcasting? He's About to Find Out THR, Esq Priscilla Presley Sued for $50 Million Amid Power Struggle Over Graceland Business Empire Jon Voight Jon Voight Effort for Federal Film Tax Deduction Gets Bipartisan Backers in Congress Disney Disney Entertainment Reorganizes Marketing Under Asad Ayaz, Shannon Ryan siriusxm What Really Could Be Killing Howard Stern's Show siriusxm Howard Stern Tries to Own the Rumor Mill of His SiriusXM Demise THR Cover Story Who the F*** Is Marc Maron Without Podcasting? He's About to Find Out