Amid an ongoing battle royal with hip-hop icon Kendrick Lamar, Canadian rapper Drake now claims their shared record label secretly gamed the system to artificially inflate his avowed rival’s most recent diss track, in which Lamar accuses the former child star of being a “certified pedophile,” while suppressing his own music.
In an eyepopping court filing obtained by The Independent, Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham, says Universal Music Group (UMG) used a network of bots, in conjunction with a so-called pay-to-play scheme, to “manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves” with Lamar’s smash hit song “Not Like Us,” all to Drake’s detriment.
