When Drake and Kendrick Lamar first started duking it out through a series of hard-hitting diss tracks in the spring of 2024, no one could’ve predicted that the back-and-forth would soon become one of hip-hop’s most historic rap beefs on record — much less one of the music industry’s biggest legal battles.

But what started as a slow-burning feud that largely simmered under the surface, relegated to stray jabs in songs here and there, eventually boiled over into an all-out war of words when Drizzy dropped “Push Ups” in May, followed by more tracks such as “Taylor Made Freestyle” and “Family Matters.” Dot countered each of them with searing snipes of his own on “Euphoria,” “6:16 in L.A.” and “Meet the Grahams,” but it was when he unleashed his Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “Not Like Us” that Drake decided things had gone too far.

It was the success of that song — and its lyrics in which Lamar accuses his target of being a “certified pedophile” — that later led to the Toronto native to take matters to court. Through a series of legal filings, Drake has taken aim at Universal Music Group, Spotify and iHeartRadio over accusations of streaming manipulation, defamation and conspiracy, shocking the public at every turn and further deepening his rift with the Compton rapper in the process. Remember when the pair collaborated on 2013’s “Buried Alive Interlude”? That’s ancient history now.

As Drake’s legal journey plays out, Billboard is keeping track of every update to the “God’s Plan” musician’s escalating legal crusade. Keep reading to see everything that’s happened so far since the release of “Not Like Us” below.