Months after Drake sued his own record label for defamation over his rap battle with Kendrick Lamar over the song “Not Like Us,” the head of that company has finally weighed in.

In a declaration letter filed late Thursday night with the Southern District of New York and obtained by Variety, Lucian Grainge , chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, called Drake ’s claims of defamation and that Grainge was involved in the planning and release of that song “farcical,” “nonsensical,” “groundless and indeed ridiculous,” noting that the company had spent “hundreds of millions” in supporting the Canadian rapper’s music career.

Earlier this week, Drake’s attorneys attempted to force UMG and Grainge to turn over the label’s contract with Lamar, alon

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