Reports indicate that Spotify has pushed back against Drake‘s claims that it collaborated with UMG to manipulate the success of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” denouncing the allegations as baseless and criticizing the rapper’s lawsuit as an abuse of legal protocol.
On Friday, December 20, the streaming platform alleged in court that they uncovered zero proof of a bot attack and categorically reject accusations of any arrangement with UMG to promote K.Dot’s track. Spotify’s legal team stated, “The predicate of Petitioner’s entire request for discovery from Spotify is false.” “Spotify and UMG have never had any such arrangement.”
The court documents further questioned why Drake pursued the case at all, dismissing his alleged conspiracies as “far-fetched” and “speculative.” They also raised doubts about Spotify’s involvement, noting that the platform is an outsider to the longstanding feud between Drake, Kendrick, and UMG. Spotify, in turn, criticized Drake for using an unconventional “pre-action” petition instead of filing a formal lawsuit, describing it as an attempt to evade the weaknesses in his claims. The company contended that his allegations wouldn’t withstand scrutiny in court and would likely be dismissed outright.
Spotify’s attorneys said, “What petitioner is seeking to do here … is to bypass the normal pleading requirements … and obtain by way of pre-action discovery that which it would only be entitled to seek were it to survive a motion to dismiss.” “This...
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