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Spotify Slams Drake’s Claim That It ‘Artificially Inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Streams
Spotify has denied Drake’s claims that the streaming numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-dissing song 'Not Like Us' were 'artificially inflated.'
Spotify has made an official statement denying Drake’s claims in a legal filing last month that the streaming numbers for Kendrick Lamar ’s song “Not Like Us,” which took powerful verbal shots at the Canadian rapper, were “artificially inflated.” UMG designed, financed and then executed a plan to turn ‘Not Like Us’ into a viral mega-hit with the intent of using the spectacle of harm to Drake and his businesses to drive consumer hysteria and, of course, massive revenues. While sources close to the situation claim that Drake’s petition is about Universal — the label that has distributed his music since he first signed with Lil Wayne’s Young Money label in 2009 — rather than Spotify, iHeart or even Lamar directly, it hardly seems coincidental that the legal action is based around the song at the center of a long-running feud between the two artists; “Not Like Us” is also a rare diss track that not only topped the Billboard Hot 100 but is nominated for multiple 2025 Grammy Awards.
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