On August 15, 2025, ASAP Rocky released two songs, Both Eyes Closed and Trunks, as part of the soundtrack for Spike Lee's film Highest 2 Lowest. The film premiered in theaters the same day.

UMG CEO Lucian Grainge responded to Drake’s demand to read his emails amid the ongoing lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track “Not Like Us.

Drake's legal team is demanding internal records on some of the most explosive claims of his Kendrick Lamar beef: allegations of domestic violence and the role of Dave Free in the lives of Lamar's children.

"I'm not going to the studio angry rapping about some other man and putting him in my art," Cudi said of not being a beef-focused artist.

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.

Drake asks court to force UMG CEO Lucian Grainge to release records in lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss track.