A new class action lawsuit against Spotify accuses the company of allowing massive amounts of streaming fraud on its platform, with Drake in particular allegedly benefiting from billions of artificial streams.
In the suit, filed in federal court in California on Sunday, rapper RBX, who is also Snoop Dogg’s cousin, claims that Spotify is “all too happy to turn a blind eye” to massive streaming fraud that takes place on the platform, which in turn siphons off royalties from other artists.
Drake, who isn’t named as a defendant in the complaint, is the only artist named in the suit. RBX, whose real name is Eric Dwayne Collins, alleged that “between January 2022 and September 2025, a substantial, non-trivial percentage of Drake’s ~37,000,000,000 streams on Spotify during that timeframe

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