“If Spotify and UMG have nothing to hide then they should be perfectly fine complying with this basic discovery request”: Spotify responds to Drake’s claims of collusion in his diss track battle with Kendrick Lamar

Drake performing in 2022.

Spotify has fired back at claims by Drake that it helped to artificially boost Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us, describing the allegations as “false” and the rapper’s legal action a “subversion of the normal judicial process.”

You may recall that Drake filed a legal petition last month saying that Universal Music and Spotify had colluded to artificially inflate Not Like Us, by using bots, undisclosed payments and biased recommendations. Not Like Us went straight in at Number One in the Billboard chart in May, breaking a number of chart records along the way.