Canadian rapper Drake on Monday filed a lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group, alleging the company used AI bots to boost the Spotify rankings of “Not Like Us,” a diss track in which fellow UMG artist Kendrick Lamar accused Drake of statutory rape, Variety reports.
Drake, real name Aubrey Drake Graham, who starred on the Canadian teen soap opera Degrassi for seven seasons before becoming a rapper, alleged 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,” and arguing the whole scheme was a violation of the RICO act.
Maybe it’s that second paragraph in which you stopped asking yourself why the fuck National Zero picked up some douchebag rapper’s feud with another douchebag rapper as hip-hop is not even in our off-the-usual-beat wheelhouse and then thought “Oh yeah. Yeah this all sounds very familiar.”
Because damned if it doesn’t seem like some rich, entitled pussy who can’t take a punch turning to the legal system – and supplying zero actual evidence of the vast conspiracy to “rig” the system against him into court – is starting to catch on with other, similarly maladjusted, public figures.