United Kingdom, April 17 -- Drake has accused Kendrick Lamar of having "assassinated his character" during his Super Bowl halftime show.

The Canadian rapper is suing his own record label, Universal Music Group (UMG) for releasing and promoting Kendrick's diss track 'Not Like Us', and in an amended defamation claim filed on Wednesday (16.04.25), he argued the performance in February, as well as his rival's Grammy Award wins for the song, "introduced new listeners to the Recording, causing even more people to be duped into believing that Drake was a paedophile."

The amendment claimed UMG made significant financial envestments and used professional connections to arrange for the amplification of the allegations in the track to be heard by ...