A federal judge has thrown out Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Drake sued his own label UMG earlier this year, accusing the label of having “approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track” that was “intended to convey the specific, unmistakable, and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile, and to suggest that the public should resort to vigilante justice in response.”

However, in her opinion issued Thursday, Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled that a “war of words” during a “heated rap battle” did not violate the law. Vargas wrote that “even statements that are offensive or insulting are not defamatory when a reasonable listener would understand them as opinion, pa

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