Dec 1, 2021; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Rapper, singer and actor Drake watches the Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Houston Rockets during the second half of an Oklahoma City Thunder game at Paycom Center. Alonzo Adams / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Last month, Drake filed a pre-action petition against UMG and Spotify, accusing the companies of artificially boosting Kendrick Lamar's hit diss track "Not Like Us." Earlier this week, Spotify finally issued a response. "UMG and Spotify have never had any arrangement in which UMG charged Spotify licensing rates 30 percent lower than its usual licensing rates for 'Not Like Us' in exchange for Spotify affirmatively recommending ['Not Like Us]', including 'to users who are searching for other songs and artists,'" the filing reads in part. "Spotify has no economic incentive for users to stream 'Not Like Us" over any of Drake's tracks."