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Drake says judge in defamation case didn’t properly consider whether “reasonable people” might believe slur in Kendrick’s diss track

When US judge Jeanette A Vargas dismissed Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ last year, she said that - in defamation cases - context is everything. Drake agrees. But what context? In his latest filing with the Second Circuit Appeals Court, Drake says that Vargas “committed multiple errors in considering the relevant context” in this case. First, instead of considering how a regular “reasonable…
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completemusicupdate.com broke the news on Monday, April 20, 2026.
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