THE BIG STORY: Less than a year after Drake filed a stunning lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” a federal judge tossed it out of court. Her reason? That context is crucial.

Drake’s case claimed that UMG defamed him by releasing Lamar’s scathing diss track, which tarred his arch-rival as a “certified pedophile.” He believed that millions of people took that lyric literally, severely harming his reputation.

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That might have been true, said Judge Jeannette Vargas, if Kendrick called him a pedo in a context where people expect to hear “

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