Drake Accuses UMG, Spotify Of 'Scheme' To Boost 'Not Like Us' Diss Track
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On Monday, Drake's camp accused the music giants of "artificially" inflating the Kendrick Lamar song's numbers with bots, payola and other tactics.
Drake appears to be looking to take his feud with rapper Kendrick Lamar to court.
On Monday, Drake’s company, Frozen Moments LLC, filed a petition in New York accusing music giants Spotify and Universal Music Group of an illegal “scheme” using bots, payola and more to “artificially” inflate stats for Lamar’s diss track against the Canadian rapper, “Not Like Us.”
In portions of the filing first published by Billboard, Drake’s legal team claims, “UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices. It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves.”
The filing goes on to say that UMG was “motivated, at least in part, by the desire of executives at Interscope to maximize their own profits” and that those executives “have been incentivized to maximize the financial success of Interscope through the promotion of ‘Not Like Us’ and its revitalizing impact on the artist’s prior recording catalog.”
The legal documents further accuse UMG of deceptive business practices, false advertising and violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a federal statute often used to prosecute organized crime.
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