“UMG wants to pretend that this is about a rap battle in order to distract its shareholders, artists and the public from a simple truth: a greedy company is finally being held responsible for ...

Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated”, UMG stated in a court filing. “Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims ...

Drake is also claiming defamation and a litany of other things, a surprising move in a rap battle; diss records often employ the most vicious and incendiary statements and lyrics in an attempt to ...

“Plaintiff, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated,” UMG’s lawyers write in the filing. “Instead of ...

UMG didn’t seem to pull any punches against its client, saying the “One Dance” star was suing his own label for revenge because he “lost a rap battle” against Lamar that Drake initiated.

Drake’s parent label Universal Music Group has dissed the rapper in a legal response to his defamation lawsuit, claiming he turned to the courts after “[losing] a rap battle” against Kendrick Lamar.

The label says followers of the rap battle understand that Kendrick Lamar was exaggerating in the song accusing Drake of pedophilia. By Winston Cho In “Family Matters,” Drake‘s penultimate ...

Drake's legal team has provided the following statement to XXL in response to UMG asking that the rapper's defamation lawsuit be dismissed. "UMG wants to pretend that this is about a rap battle in ...

After the epigraph, UMG’s lawyers argue: “Plaintiff [Drake], one of the most successful recording artists of all time, lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated.

Firefighters working an 8-alarm blaze in Roxbury are warning residents to keep their windows and doors shut as smoke blankets the area. The fire broke out this morning at a construction waste ...

Anthony Mackie recalls the climactic rap battle in 8 Mile starring Eminem In a recent interview on The Pivot podcast, Marvel actor Anthony Mackie recalled working with Eminem in 8 Mile. The movie was ...

When B-Rabbit torched Papa Doc in 8 Mile’s iconic final rap battle, it was actually Eminem taking shots at Anthony Mackie. On the March 11 episode of Pivot Podcast, Mackie, 46, revealed that the ...