RBX, the Long Beach rap veteran who debuted on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, is taking Spotify to courtroom, accusing the world’s largest music-streaming platform of knowingly permitting faux “bot” streams for Drake that cheated working artists out of tens of millions.

In a 28-page class-action grievance filed November 2 in Los Angeles federal courtroom, the rapper claims Spotify inflated whole play counts by ignoring “billions of fraudulent streams” generated by automated accounts.  

The swimsuit argues that these faux performs artificially inflated the earnings of celebrity acts, akin to Drake, whereas shrinking the royalty pool for all different artists.

“Every month, more than a hundred thousand artists, songwriters, and producers are forced to compete for their share of a limited pool of royalty payments from Spotify,” the submitting says. “Success begets success… some take the Hustle too far—they resort to cheating.”

RBX accuses Spotify of turning “a blind eye” to the scheme as a result of greater play totals assist the corporate promote extra advertisements and please buyers.  Spotify, the swimsuit alleges, has “an incentive for turning a blind eye to the blatant streaming fraud occurring on its service” since inflated numbers make its platform look bigger and extra worthwhile.

The lawsuit paints an in depth image of how bots allegedly manipulated charts and royalties—applications that performed the identical songs for 23 hours a day, VPN networks that created the phantasm of phantom listeners scattered throughout the globe, and weird information exhibiting some customers “traveled 15,000 kilometers in a month” between songs.

The grievance singles out Drake, whom it refers to as “the most streamed artist of all time.”  

RBX’s legal professionals say information present “billions of fraudulent streams” tied to his catalog from 2022 to 2025. They declare that Spotify “knew or should have known” in regards to the anomalies however “never properly addressed the millions—if not billions—of fraudulent and artificial music streams attributed to Drake’s music.”

Spotify publicly touts anti-fraud measures, but RBX says these defenses are “nothing more than window dressing.”

His submitting argues that, regardless of promising to crack down on bots, the corporate’s insurance policies “failed, over at least the past four years, to prevent or detect billions of inauthentic streams.” Represented by Baron & Budd P.C. and Irpino Law Firm, RBX seeks to signify a nationwide class of recording artists, producers and songwriters courting again to 2018.  

The swimsuit calls for damages, restitution, and a courtroom order forcing Spotify to reveal and repay affected rightsholders.

RBX argues the alleged fraud drained respectable performers’ paychecks whereas rewarding a handful of inflated stars. Spotify has not but filed a response.  

The lawsuit requests a jury trial within the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

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