The authorized warfare between Drake and UMG continues to be heating up, and now, UMG CEO Sir Lucian Grainge is responding to the Canadian famous person’s newest authorized missive. In a sworn declaration, Sir Lucian Grainge known as Drake’s latest authorized try to border Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” as an inside job to defame him “groundless and certainly ridiculous.”

As reported by Music Enterprise Worldwide, Sir Lucian Grainge responded to Drake’s amended defamation lawsuit, claiming the chief was conscious of the contents of Kendrick Lamar’s scathing and brand-damaging “Not Like Us” diss monitor.

Grainge’s sworn declaration was filed on August 14 within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, the place he claims to haven’t heard “Not Like Us,” seen its paintings, or something concerned within the monitor earlier than Interscope Data launched the tune in Could of final yr.

“While, as a part of my function, I definitely have monetary oversight of and duty for UMG’s international companies, the proposition that I used to be concerned in, a lot much less chargeable for, reviewing and approving the content material of “Not Like Us,” its cowl artwork or music video, or for figuring out or directing the promotion of these supplies, is groundless and certainly ridiculous,” Grainge wrote within the declaration.

Including insult to harm, UMG’s attorneys added of their August 14 submitting, “The premise of Drake’s movement — that he couldn’t have misplaced a rap battle except it was the product of some imagined secret conspiracy going to the highest of UMG’s company construction — is absurd.”

Drake has but to answer the most recent transfer from UMG.

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