According to Drake, UMG intentionally published and promoted Kendrick’s diss track while knowing the song’s insinuations that he has sexual relations with minors were false and defamatory.
Judge Jeannette Vargas ultimately ruled that the allegedly defamatory statements at issue in the lawsuit are “non-actionable opinion.”
She stated that the song, “which arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre’s history is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion.”