Drake called Spotify “Botify” during a live stream, ironically the same bot accusation he faces in a class-action lawsuit.
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Drake took a pointed swipe at Spotify during a recent livestream with Bendadonn, calling the platform “Botify” while previewing his upcoming ICEMAN project.
The comment created layers of irony in light of the bot accusations swirling around multiple parties in hip-hop’s streaming wars.
“I can play it on Botify real quick, I mean Sp…” Drake said during the livestream, stopping mid-sentence, but his point was clear.
The incident comes as Drake continues his legal battle with Universal Music Group, which he accuses of using bots and manual stream manipulation to boost Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”
Drake filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group, claiming the company “engaged in a campaign to manipulate and saturate streaming services and radio” by artificially inflating Kendrick’s tracks.
He accused UMG of using bots, payola schemes and other deceptive practices to push “Not Like Us” to over 900 million streams, making it the most streamed diss song in Spotify history.
But the accusations about robots constitute a twisted irony.
Just months after Drake filed his legal complaint, rapper RBX filed a class-action lawsuit against Spotify, accusing the platform of ignoring “billions of fraudulent streams” that allegedly inflated Drake’s numbers. The lawsuit alleges that Drake benefited from bot accounts that used VPN technology to mask his location and artificially inflate his stream count.
RBX’s legal team claims that fraudulent Drake streams cost other artists hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. The lawsuit specifically states that “unusual VPN usage” obscured the location of the bot account that transmitted Drake’s catalog.
This puts Drake in the unusual position of accusing others of manipulating robots while simultaneously being accused of benefiting from the same practices. But Drake’s “Botify” comments suggest he still harbors a grudge against the platform, despite needing its algorithmic support for ICEMAN’s upcoming release.
Drake’s relationship with Spotify remains complicated but lucrative.
Despite legal troubles and bot accusations, he still dominated the platform in 2025, with over 17.6 billion streams. These numbers represent his most streamed year on Spotify, taking his total streams on the platform past 125 billion, making him the first artist to reach this milestone.
In 2025, he found streaming success and “Not Like Us” became a cultural phenomenon despite the Kendrick Lamar beef dominating the headlines.
