Drake‘s authorized woes have taken yet one more twist because the 6 God has been named in a brand new class motion lawsuit accusing Spotify of “turning a blind-eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming.”
The lawsuit, filed by rapper RBX — a cousin of Snoop Dogg who’s finest recognized for his collaborations with Dr. Dre and Eminem — cites Drake as the primary beneficiary of this alleged misconduct, claiming a “substantial” quantity of his document 122 billion Spotify streams have come by way of unlawful strategies resembling bots.
Such mass scale streaming fraud “causes large monetary hurt to respectable artists, songwriters, producers, and different rightsholders,” argues the go well with, which was obtained by Rolling Stone.
Although Drake is known as within the lawsuit, he isn’t listed as a defandant. Solely Spotify is accused of wrongdoing.
Within the grievance, RBX factors to “voluminous info” which he says proves {that a} vital proportion of Drizzy’s streams had been “inauthentic and gave the impression to be the work of a sprawling community of Bot Accounts.”
Between January 2022 and September 2025, the go well with claims, an examination of the Canadian hitmaker’s streams revealed “irregular VPN utilization” had obscured the situation of those bot accounts.
RBX alleges that over a four-day interval in 2024, over 250,000 streams of Drake’s tune “No Face” originated in Turkey “however had been falsely geomapped by way of the coordinated use of VPNs to the UK in [an] try and obscure their origins.”
The “Bear in mind Me?” rapper even claims that “a big proportion” of accounts streamed Drake’s music from “areas whose inhabitants couldn’t help” such a big quantity of streams, and that some streams originated in areas with “zero residential addresses.”
A spokesperson for Spotify refuted the allegations, saying in a press release: “We can’t touch upon pending litigation. Nonetheless, Spotify by no means advantages from the industry-wide problem of synthetic streaming.
“We closely spend money on always-improving, best-in-class programs to fight it and safeguard artist payouts with sturdy protections like eradicating pretend streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties.”
The assertion continued: “Our programs are working: In a case from final 12 months, one dangerous actor was indicted for stealing $10 million from streaming companies, solely $60,000 of which got here from Spotify, proving how efficient we’re at limiting the influence of synthetic streaming on our platform.”
Drake himself has but to touch upon the lawsuit.
The bombshell go well with comes shortly after the OVO Sound boss noticed his personal lawsuit towards Common Music Group, which contained comparable allegations of streaming fraud, get dismissed.
A federal New York choose tossed out the high-profile grievance after ruling that Kendrick Lamar’s hit diss tune “Not Like Us” didn’t defame Drake.
The Toronto native has since filed a discover of enchantment, signalling his intent to dispute the choice.
