Drake Sues UMG, Spotify Over Alleged ‘Artificial Inflation’ of Kendrick Lamar’s Diss Song

Drake has filed lawsuits against Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG), claiming that the two companies conspired to fictitiously increase the number of streams of Kendrick Lamar’s diss song “Not Like Us.”

In a suit filed Monday with the New York Supreme Court, lawyers for Drake’s business, Frozen Moments LLC, charged UMG and Spotify of engaging in a criminal plot that used payola, bots, and other measures to promote Lamar’s song while impeding Drake’s music.
“On the contrary, it initiated a campaign to control and overload the airwaves and streaming services.”

The song was leased to Spotify at a 30% discount in exchange for user recommendations and promotional boosts, according to the filing. The song reached number one on the US charts, received 96 million plays in only seven days, and became a top 10 radio smash.

Drake has additionally sued UMG in a different Texas court, claiming slander.

UMG chose to release the song while knowing that “Not Like Us” wrongly accused him of pedophilia, according to this filing.

An official from UMG responded by calling the accusations “offensive and untrue.”

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“It is disrespectful and false to imply that UMG would stop at nothing to discredit any of its artists,” they stated.

“Our marketing and advertising activities utilize the most ethical approaches available. Fans pick the music they want to hear, and no amount of fabricated and ridiculous legal justifications in this pre-action submission can change that.

Since Drake is affiliated with Republic Records and Lamar is with Interscope, both of which are controlled by UMG, the two artists have had a history of working together.