A federal judge denied Universal Music Groups request to delay discovery in Drakes defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamars Not Like Us, on Wednesday, allowing the Gods Plan rappers team to ask for documents UMG had called highly commercially sensitive, such as Lamars record deal.

UMG had filed a request to delay the discovery process back in March, stating that the company had presented enough of a case for Drakes suit to be dismissed in its entirety, and that the request was an undue burden on UMG. Judge Jeannette Vargas denied that request during a conference held in New York on Wednesday. UMG wrote that Drakes team asked for all the contracts between UMG and Lamar, as well as the executive compensation structure and annual incentive plans for Interscope Chief Executive Officer John Janick for the past five years.

UMG said the documents were confidential, proprietary, and highly commercially sensitive, and said that Drakes request would require costly collection and review of large swaths of hard-copy and electronic data sets, contracts and agreements, and communications.

While Drakes team is free to request those documents, its unclear how many of them UMG will have to turn over as discovery is ongoing.

Reps for UMG didnt immediately reply to a request for comment. As Drakes attorney, Mark Gottlieb, said in a statement to Variety: Now its time to see what UMG was so desperately trying to hide.

Drake sued UMG, his own record company, back in January for defamation for releasing Lamars Not Like Us last year. The track, in which Lamar called Drake a pedophile, became one of the biggest songs 2024, winning Grammy Awards for record and song of the year.

Drake claimed that UMG approved, published and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track intended to convey the specific, unmistakable and false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile.

UMG subsequently filed a motion to dismiss Drakes suit, claiming that Drake lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated. Instead of accepting the loss like the unbothered rap artist he often claims to be, he has sued his own record label in a misguided attempt to salve his wounds, UMG said.

Oral arguments on the motion to dismiss will take place June 30, according to Vargass order filed Wednesday.