Kendrick Lamar is kicking of 2025 with a bang. The rapper's monumental hit, "Not Like Us," has officially surpassed one billion Spotify streams. Lamar's anthemic track, released in May 2024, marked the end of the highly publicized feud between himself and Drake and became a longstanding hit,

Drake is suing his record label for spreading a “false and malicious narrative” when it released and promoted Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Drake is battling his own record label over a song that is the lynchpin of a now legendary hip-hop feud.

The summer single, one of several to come from a feud with fellow rapper Drake, was one of the biggest songs of 2024, hitting the top of Billboard's Hot 100.

Drake filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his and Kendrick Lamar’s record label Universal Music Group, claiming Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” defamed Drake by calling him a “certified pedophile”—a major escalation of the months-long feud between the two rappers.

Drake's legal team said Universal Music Group used its resources to "elevate a dangerous and inflammatory message that was designed to assassinate Drake’s character."

Drake has withdrawn a legal action accusing Universal Music Group and Spotify of artificially inflating Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us."

The leading hip-hop superstar beef has been cranked up another notch, with Drake suing Universal Music Group for defamation over rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”.

Drake sued UMG in federal court one day after withdrawing a previous petition accusing the label of using bots to boost ‘Not Like Us’

Two months earlier, Drake filed petitions in New York and Texas over his claim UMG schemed to "artificially inflate" Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."

During a celebrity news roundup, Bravo's Daryn Carp reported that Drake is suing Universal Music Group, which represents both him and Kendrick Lamar. Drake claims the diss track "Not Like Us" caused him "bodily harm,