The summer single, one of several to come from a feud with fellow rapper Drake, was one of the biggest songs of 2024, hitting the top of Billboard’s Hot 100.

Drake filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his and Kendrick Lamar’s record label Universal Music Group, claiming Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” defamed Drake by calling him a “certified pedophile”—a major escalation of the months-long feud between the two rappers.

The leading hip-hop superstar beef has been cranked up another notch, with Drake suing Universal Music Group for defamation over rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

The Toronto rapper is suing Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging that the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar's 2024 hit threatened his life and career.

Drake had filed actions against Universal Music Group and Spotify, in which he claimed the two companies had colluded to artificially boost the streaming numbers of Lamar’s song “Not Like Us.” The song was one of several tracks released in a feud between Drake and Lamar.

The rapper Drake has sued Universal Music Group for defamation, alleging the music empire of promoting a diss track against him last spring.

The lawsuit accuses the record label of promoting the “false and malicious narrative” that Drake is a pedophile, which the rapper denies, by releasing "Not Like Us."

Drake's legal team said Universal Music Group used its resources to "elevate a dangerous and inflammatory message that was designed to assassinate Drake’s character."

Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group has warranted a response from the label regarding his defamation claims, and they’re not backing down. After Drizzy dropped his petition against Spotify and UMG,