Universal Music Group said in a court filing that Drake “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated” against Kendrick Lamar.

Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the rapper’s lawsuit is a “misguided attempt to salve his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle that he provoked.

Drake’s defamation lawsuit over the recording label’s release of Kendrick Lamar’s hit track “Not Like Us.”In January, Drake accused UMG — which he is also signed to — of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he is a pedophile with the release of Lamar’s song,