It’s a major setback for “ a minor ” lawsuit.

Drake’s defamation lawsuit against his record label over Kendrick Lamar’s hit diss track “Not Like Us” was thrown out on Thursday by a federal judge in Manhattan.

Judge Jeannette Vargas sided with Universal Music Group in their request to toss the suit, ruling Lamar’s song was not presented as factual and therefore not defamation.

“A reasonable listener could not have concluded that ‘Not Like Us’ was conveying objective facts about Drake ,” Vargas wrote in her opinion. “The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public fact-checked verifiable content.”

In the suit, Drake claimed UMG widely promoted and distributed “Not Like Us”

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