In new legal filings, the top executive has made his first public statements on the rapper's unprecedented lawsuit against his own label

Months after Drake sued his own record label for defamation over his rap battle with Kendrick Lamar over the song “Not Like Us,” the head of that company has finally weighed in. In a declaration letter filed late Thursday night with the Southern District of New York and obtained by Variety,

Lucian Grainge, CEO of Universal Music Group, slammed Drake’s allegation that he was personally behind the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s chart-topping diss track “Not Like Us” in a letter to the court.