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,

Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge called Drake’s defamation lawsuit against the record label “farcical” in a letter to the court, refuting the rapper’s allegations that Grainge was personally behind the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”