CNN —Musician Drake alleges that Universal Music Group “conspired” to artificially boost Kendrick Lamar’s searing diss track “Not Like Us” on Spotify, according to a pre-action petition submitted to a New York court on Monday. It has also amassed almost 900 million streams on Spotify to date, according to the petition. Drake is currently represented by Republic Records, a division of UMG and Lamar is currently represented by Interscope records, also a division of UMG. Drake’s petition accuses UMG of paying an independent radio promoter acting as an intermediary, who then paid other radio stations to boost airplay of Lamar’s track. “Not Like Us” became the most successful song spawned by the feud and earned five Grammy nominations earlier this month.

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Persons: Drake, Group “, ”, Kendrick, UMG “, UMG, Lamar, Siri, Monday’s Organizations: CNN, Universal, Group, Spotify, Billboard, Republic Records, Interscope, ” CNN, Drake, Apple Locations: New York, Lamar, UMG