Judge Rejects Drake's Defamation + Harassment Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" Diss Track

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Judge Rejects Drake's Defamation + Harassment Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" Diss Track

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A short excerpt from Judge Jeannete Vargas's long opinion in Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc.; read the full opinion for more:
This case arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre's history, the vitriolic war of words that erupted between superstar recording artists…

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