Rapper Drake (right) has lost his case against Universal Music Group over a Kendrick Lamar track. Photo: AP PHOTO

A US judge has tossed out Drake's defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, ruling that lyrics branding the superstar a pedophile in Kendrick Lamar's diss track Not Like Us were opinion.

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Judge Jeannette A Vargas rejected the suit in a written opinion that began by citing "the vitriolic war of words" and saying the case arose "from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre's history".

She said a reasonable listener could not have concluded Not Like Us was

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