Drake has landed in the middle of a major controversy after a new lawsuit claimed that billions of fake streams helped boost his music numbers.
The case was filed in a California court by rapper RBX, who accused a top music platform of ignoring fake accounts that made the rapper’s songs appear more popular between 2022 and 2025.
The lawsuit said that the fake plays, made through bots and VPNs, changed how money was shared on the app.
Since payments depend on how many times a song is streamed, smaller artists reportedly lost millions while Drake’s figures kept climbing.
Even though the Which One rapper wasn’t accused of creating the fake activity himself, he was named as the biggest person to benefit from it.
Over 250,000 plays of Drake’s track No Face seemed to come from Turkey but were shown as streams from the United Kingdom.
Some accounts were also found to be playing his music almost 23 hours a day, which raised suspicions about automated streaming.
RBX’s lawyer, Mark Pifko, said the lawsuit aims to uncover a system that quietly hurts real artists. The plaintiffs are seeking over $5 million in damages and want the platform to reveal who was affected.
For the unversed, the timing of this lawsuit is suspicious since it comes just weeks after Drake’s own case against another label was thrown out.
