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

Months after Drake sued his own record label for defamation over his rap battle with Kendrick Lamar over the song "Not Like Us," the head of that company has finally weighed in. In a declaration letter filed late Thursday night with the Southern District of New York and obtained by Variety,

In a declaration letter, UMG's CEO was particularly blunt in describing Drake's legal moves as "groundless and indeed ridiculous," and also revealed that the company had spent "hundreds of millions" supporting the Canadian rapper.