On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” ruling that the lyrics — which call Drake a “certified pedophile” — are “nonactionable opinion” and therefore not defamatory.

The ruling marks the end to Drake’s suit, which he filed in January after filing a similar petition in November as an apparent attempt to rehash what Manhattan judge Jeannette A. Vargas called the “most infamous rap battle in the genre’s history.” “Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called ‘diss tracks,’ with increasingly heated rhetoric , loaded accusations, and violent imagery,” Vargas wrote in her opinion.

Legally speaking, she seems to agree with the general perception that Lamar came out on top. “N

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