In new legal filings, the top executive has made his first public statements on the rapper's unprecedented lawsuit against his own label

Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge called Drake’s defamation lawsuit against the record label “farcical” in a letter to the court, refuting the rapper’s allegations that Grainge was personally behind the release and promotion of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

In a declaration letter filed Thursday night in the Southern District of New York, Grainge said Drake's accusation that UMG (parent label firm to both Drake and Lamar) defamed him “makes no sense.”