Universal Music Group is requesting to dismiss Drake’s federal defamation lawsuit against the label over Kendrick Lamar’s blockbuster song “Not Like Us,” saying in a legal filing that the rapper’s lawsuit is a “misguided attempt to salve his wounds” after he “lost a rap battle that he provoked.

Lawyers for Universal Music Group say that Drake “provoked” his beef with Lamar and should be “accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be”