Drake has got to be sick and tired of Southern California by now.
This weekend, his hometown Toronto Blue Jays were bested by the Los Angeles Dodgers in a thrilling World Series Game 7, something the Boys in Blue celebrated on social media with lyrics by the Canadian rapper and his nemesis, noted Dodgers fan and Compton native Kendrick Lamar.
As if the Jays’ loss and Drake’s fall to Lamar in last year’s rap battle weren’t enough, another Southern California rapper made some potentially damaging allegations against the Canadian in a lawsuit over the weekend.
As reported by Rolling Stone and other outlets, the rapper RBX — who is the cousin of Snoop Dogg — is suing Spotify over allegedly inflated streaming numbers due to bot activity.
While describing inflated streams as a widespread occurrence on the platform, RBX’s suit only names one artist as having benefited: Drake.
“It claims ‘voluminous information’ which Spotify ‘knows or should know’ proves that a ‘substantial, non-trivial percentage’ of Drake’s approximately 37 billion streams were ‘inauthentic and appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of Bot Accounts,’” Rolling Stone reports.
Drake’s representatives didn’t respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment, though Spotify did issue a statement defending itself against claims of rampant bot activity.
“We cannot comment on pending litigation. However, Spotify in no way benefits from the industry-wide challenge of artificial streaming,” a Spotify spokesperson said in a statement reported by NBC News. “We heavily invest in always-improving, best-in-class systems to combat it and safeguard artist payouts with strong protections like removing fake streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties.”
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