Kendrick Lamar and Drake's feud has become one of the most storied rap beefs in history, but their relationship wasn't always so fraught with tension. Before Lamar made his major label debut with 2012's ​​Good Kid,

Two months earlier, Drake filed petitions in New York and Texas over his claim UMG schemed to "artificially inflate" Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us."

When Drake and Kendrick Lamar first started duking it out through a series of hard-hitting diss tracks in the spring of 2024, no one could've predicted that the back-and-forth would soon become one of hip-hop's most historic rap beefs on record - much less one of the music industry's biggest legal battles.

Drake's legal team said Universal Music Group used its resources to "elevate a dangerous and inflammatory message that was designed to assassinate Drake’s character."