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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit in which Drake had accused the world’s biggest record company of defaming him with the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning diss track “Not Like Us.”

In her dismissal of the case, U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled that Lamar’s criticisms of Drake in “Not Like Us” — including his claim that “I hear you like ’em young” — did not amount to defamation because a “reasonable listener could not have concluded that ‘Not Like Us’ was conveying objective facts about Drake.”

The lawsuit put Drake at odds with Universal Music Group, the sprawling record company that releases music by both him and Lamar. Drake alleged

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