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Music DJ Akademiks Goes At Joe Budden For Validating Botting Claims Against Drake DJ Akademiks spoke on Joe Budden and other media figures not scrutinizing the various lawsuits against Drake and Stake enough. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 02, 2026
Music TDE's Punch Speaks On Label's Botting Allegations TDE president Punch also addressed other rumors against them on "The Joe Budden Podcast," including paying Budden to support Kendrick Lamar. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 08, 2026
Music Spotify Cracks Down On Botted Streams But Won't Reveal Which Artists They Punished The main narrative hip-hop fans associate with Spotify botting these days is the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef and its discourse offshoots. By Gabriel Bras Nevares April 04, 2025
Music Lawsuit Accusing Spotify Of Fabricating Drake's Streams Has Been Dismissed This is a separate lawsuit to the one from RBX, who also accused Spotify of boosting Drake's streams on the platform. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 01, 2026
Original Content Bots & Artificial Streams Are Killing Hip Hop Streaming bots and fake plays are shaking Hip Hop. Numbers have always mattered in music, but artificial streams are polluting the culture. By Erika Marie March 05, 2026
Music DJ Akademiks Peddles Theory About Kendrick Lamar's Alleged Stream-Botting Amid Drake Beef No stream-botting allegations against Drake or Kendrick Lamar have been confirmed, but DJ Akademiks thinks fans are missing the big picture. By Gabriel Bras Nevares April 05, 2025
Music Kanye West Claims He Has "Fake Streams" In Latest Twitter Outburst Kanye West is back on Twitter and mocking his own success by suggesting that he's got artificially inflated streams. By Elias Andrews March 01, 2025
Music Russ Accuses Major Labels Of Holding Spotify "Hostage" This relates to the debates of fake streams and playlist payola that are circling hip-hop these days. By Gabriel Bras Nevares December 20, 2024
Music Drake Seemingly Accuses Spotify Of Certifying Fake Streams Of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" While Drake is moving on musically, his Internet presence makes it very clear that he's still angry at Kendrick Lamar. By Gabriel Bras Nevares June 30, 2024
Music Rappers Who've Been Exposed For Allegedly Having Fake Streams The digital method of consuming music has made it easy for rappers and labels to get away with manipulating fake streams. By Demi Phillips February 28, 2024
Numbers French Montana Accused Of Faking Streams For "Writing On The Wall" The song didn't perform very well despite features from Post Malone and Cardi B. By Alex Zidel January 03, 2020
Music ScHoolboy Q Jokes That He Needs J. Cole To Tell Him About Fake Streams Cole rapped about artists using machines to fake their stream numbers on "A Lot" with 21 Savage. By Erika Marie April 15, 2019
Music Fake Streams Could Cost Artists & Labels $300M In Revenue A Year: Report Someone let ScHoolboy Q that the machine that fakes streams has been identified. By Aron A. June 20, 2019
Music TIDAL Responds To Reports They Faked Kanye West & Beyonce's Streams TIDAL want everyone to know that they are NOT under investigation. By Alex Zidel January 14, 2019