Drake can't seem to win for losing as a new class-action lawsuit claims Spotify "turned a blind eye" to "mass-scale fraudulent streaming," naming Drake, in particular, as having profited from "billions" of fake streams.

RBX, the West Coast rapper known for appearing on legendary albums like Dr. Dre's The Chronic and Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, filed the suit Sunday in California District Court.

It reads:

“Every month, under Spotify’s watchful eye, billions of fraudulent streams are generated from fake, illegitimate, and/or illegal methods [like bots]. This mass-scale fraudulent streaming causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders whose proportional share is decreased as a result of fraudulent stream inflation on Spotify’s platform.”

Spotify's royalties for artists are paid out through a "streamshare" model, where subscription and advertising dollars are pooled together and divided based on each artist's share of total streams on the platform.

While the lawsuit alleges that bots are a widespread problem on Spotify, the only example cited is Drake.

The claim states "voluminous information" which Spotify "knows or should know" proves a "substantial, non-trivial percentage" of Drake's 37 billion streams are fake and "appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of Bot Accounts."

The alleged fraudulent activity spanned more than three years between January 2022 and September 2025, according to RBX's lawsuit. The rapper claims "abnormal VPN usage" obscured the location of bot accounts streaming Champagne Papi's songs.

For example, the suit alleges that over a four-day period at least 250,000 streams of his 2024 song "No Face" originated from Turkey but were "falsely geomapped" to the United Kingdom to hide their real locations.

The lawsuit also claims "a large percentage" of suspected bots were concentrated in areas where the population could not support a high volume of streaming activity, including areas with "zero residential addresses."

The suit also claims that there is a "massive amount of accounts" listening to Drake "23 hours a day," with less than two percent of those users accounting for "roughly 15 percent" of his streams.

"Artists across the streaming industry need accurate reporting of streams and effective fraud detection to ensure fair compensation. When streams are artificially inflated on a large scale – as my client’s lawsuit alleges has happened with respect to streams of Drake’s music – it affects the income of countless songwriters, performers, and producers,” Mark Pifko, one of the lawyers with Baron and Budd, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of RBX, tells Rolling Stone. “The lawsuit seeks to address these broader issues, recoup losses for affected musicians, and make the streaming ecosystem as fair and transparent as possible for everyone involved.”

Drake's team did not respond to a request for comment, but Spotify issued a statement to Consequence:

"We cannot comment on pending litigation. However, Spotify in no way benefits from the industry-wide challenge of artificial streaming. We heavily invest in always-improving, best-in-class systems to combat it and safeguard artist payouts with strong protections like removing fake streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties.

Our systems are working: In a case from last year, one bad actor was indicted for stealing $10,000,000 from streaming services, only $60,000 of which came from Spotify, proving how effective we are at limiting the impact of artificial streaming on our platform."

RBX, a cousin to fellow Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg, perfectly timed the filing of his lawsuit, as a judge just tossed Drake's lawsuit against Universal Music Group for artificially-inflating Kendrick Lamar's numbers for his "Not Like Us" diss.