A federal judge dismissed Drake‘s defamation lawsuit against his own record label on Thursday.

The suit, brought after the Canadian rapper was on the losing end of a rap beef with Super Bowl halftime show headliner Kendrick Lamar, alleged that Universal Music Group defamed him by releasing Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” In that smash hit diss track, which netted the rapper five Grammys, Lamar rides a bouncy West Coast rap beat while accusing Drake of being into underage girls.

“Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young,” Lamar raps before calling the hitmaker a “certified pedophile.”

Drake’s lawsuit said the label “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 respon

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