In a motion filed on Monday, Drake's record label filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." Universal Music Group fired back at the Canadian rapper calling his allegations “meritless.

Universal Music Group filed its first response to Drake’s defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us," calling it "meritless."

In the motion, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, which was obtained and reviewed by TheWrap, UMG states the "rhetorical hyperbole" in the song is common in rap diss tracks and thus is not meant to be taken literally,