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Drake Withdraws Legal Petition Accusing Spotify and Universal Music of Artificially Inflating Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’
Drake has withdrawn his legal petition against Spotify and UMG after claiming they artificially inflated Kendrick Lamar's 'Not LIke Us.'
The petition, which was not a full lawsuit but rather a “pre-action” move, claimed that UMG “engaged in conduct designed to artificially inflate the popularity of ‘Not Like Us’…including by licensing the song at drastically reduced rates to Spotify and using ‘bots’ to generate the false impression that the song was more popular than it was in reality.” No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.” All of this stemmed from a heated back-and-forth between Lamar and Drake that ignited after the former dropped a verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in March 2024.
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