Drake is now pushing for complete access to Kendrick Lamar’s recording contract. The request draws attention to the specifics of Lamar’s business dealings with the label. Drake asks for Kendrick Lamar’s contract in recent lawsuit Drake’s ongoing legal battle with Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick

In a discovery bid, Drake, born Aubrey Graham, urged the court to force UMG and chief executive Lucian Grainge to turn over the label’s contract with Lamar, as well as information relating to allegations of domestic violence and other crimes committed by the Compton rapper.

Drake's legal push to unseal Kendrick Lamar's contract has UMG warning that public access could cripple its artist negotiations.

Drake’s legal team had sought to compel UMG to add Grainge as a document custodian in their ongoing discovery battle, claiming the company’s global CEO was personally involved in approving Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us, which forms the basis of Drake’s defamation case against UMG.

Drake and Universal Music Group have reached the discovery stage in the defamation lawsuit regarding Kendrick Lamar’s “ Not Like Us .” The 6 God’s legal team requested to see K. Dot’s record deal with the label, as well as copies of Lucian Grainge’s emails having to do with the smash hit diss song.