Drake filed a petition against Universal Music Group and Spotify and accused them of artificially inflating Kendrick Lamar’s diss track ‘Not Like Us.’
Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud has reached the legal level.
Drake, 38, filed a pre-action petition in a Manhattan court Monday against Universal Music Group and Spotify and alleged they created a “scheme” to boost the success of Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”
In court documents obtained by The Post, Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC said that UMG — which distributes both rappers’ music — used “bots” to “artificially inflate” the song’s streams, which “deceived consumers” into thinking Lamar’s track was more popular than it was in reality.
UMG was also accused of paying influencers to boost the song on social media and paying Apple to have its Siri feature “purposely misdirect users” to Lamar’s song. (Apple is not named in the petition.)
“UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices,” Drake’s attorney said in the filing.
