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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to the latest with Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Lauren be coming straight fast.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
She gets somebody that knows somebody.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm a long girl that knows a little bit about everything,
and she'd be having the latest on the latest with
Lauren la Rosa.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The lead on the Breakfast Club, Hey, good morning, here you.
So there's a there's a new class action lawsuit. So
there's a ton of people who have got together the
fatherst lawsuit. But the lead plaintiff is a rapper named
RBX who is also known as a cousin to Snoop Dogg.
And what his claiming is that Spotify should be in
(00:42):
trouble because they have turned a blind eye to a
mascal fraudulent streaming like scam situation. And he points to
Drake as an artist and says that Drake among a
ton of artists, but specifically the example given in the
lawsuit is about Drake. They say that Drake has benefited
benefited from the mass scale fraudulent streaming, and the lawsuit
(01:02):
it doesn't say that Drake himself did anything wrong. The
lawsuit is against us Spotify. Well, not that he didn't
do anything wrong. But the lawsuit isn't against Drake, it's
against Spotify. But basically what they're claiming is that every
month of Spotify has billions of fraudulent streams that are
generated from fake, illegitimate or illegal methods like bots, and
(01:25):
this happens at a mass scale and it hurts other
people and other artists on Spotify that will be making
money because you make money off of your streams. So
if your streams are not, you know, blown up, and
these numbers aren't big and huge, you're not competing. So
you're not making money the way that you would be,
especially because of these huge, blown up numbers that artists
like the allege a Drake has happening. So they're saying
(01:47):
to Spotify, you guys should be heard responsible for the
money that we are not making. And they give an
example of, you know, basically saying like Drake has all
these billions of streams across Spotify, but approximately thirty seven
billion streams were inauthentic and appeared to be the work
of a network of bot accounts. Is with their alleging,
and they alleged that this activity took place between January
(02:09):
twenty twenty two and September twenty twenty five, And it
also claims that an examination of Drake's streams revealed at
normal VPN usage which had you know, weird like locations,
which they're also pointing to buy accounts used for streaming
various songs they say. For instance, the lawsuit claims that
over a four day period in twenty twenty four, at
(02:30):
least two hundred and fifty thousand streams of his song
No Face originated in Turkey. So yeah, they're trying to
and this is ironic because you guys know, Drake has
been on this whole thing with like bots and allegations
of people using bots to fix streams in the Universal
Music lawsuit with Kendrick and not like us.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I was just connected Lauren to when Spotify wasn't it
was Spotify was investigating the playlist's bribery allegations in Turkey.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Turkey early okay, So still working on specifics on the connection.
But because we broke that not well, we would have
wanted the first people to report that story as well too.
But what I believe is happening because people were trying
to figure out why are the investigations and all these
rays that we were talking about then happening in these
random locations. If you look at this lawsuit here, those
random locations are where they're tracking these like bot farms too.
(03:18):
So if you go and you get all the information
from the bot farms and these places where these VP
and accounts, which are these like basically online addresses that
show you you know, where.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
These as you know bot farms, is crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They have clip farms to streamers uses them too. It's
basically just a group of like people sitting behind you know,
computers or whatever that are doing whatever you tell them
or pay them to do. But basically, Charlotte Mane, to
answer your question, the locations like in here it says,
you know, there are these random locations that they're tracing
these bot farms back to that raid basically was them
(03:51):
going and saying, hey, we're trying to get some more
information here because something's about to happen. So if you
put two and two together, I think one over here,
what we talked about before the raids is them gathering
some evidence and now you have, uh, this you know,
big class action lawsuit that is saying we have the
evidence down here is the lawsuit. So I think what
you want to see is these two come together to
(04:12):
try and prove what their claiming is happening with allegedly
with Drake and a ton.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Of other artists. Yeah, I don't know about Drake, but
this is going to be a situation in the future,
because I feel like in the future this is going
to be like the next federal freak off, like one
of the next big federal cases, because this is illegal, Like,
it's gonna be a lot of artists we have been
using these botforms to blow their numbers up, blow.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Their digital sales up.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Not just their sales, but the control narratives on social media.
They're gonna find themselves in some some federal situations.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But not only that. You use those those blatforms to
get more money from a record label to sign you, Right,
That's what's based.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
On essentially what this is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, and the bat forms. If you look on TikTok,
because I've seen pictures, I don't know if they're real
or not, but they have like a maybe like one
hundred phones set up, and one hundred phones are streaming
different artists.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So I guess you pay.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
These bot forms and the say you're paying in this
month is this artist?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And wait till Peter get involved, because you know they
got monkeys that know how to freaking be sittinguter type
and all of this stuff out. Yes, you ain't see Superman.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Shut up, goodbye, good bye.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Because as soon as it said some of the monkeys,
you know, I was thinking about all of them that
was just released that just got Yes, don't see the
connection they're not.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The last thing ain't thinking about is they just got
released last week and now all of a sudden, the lawsuit.
You're not paying attention. You not paying attention, You're not
paying attention. These monkeys out here telling telling they.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Snitch monkeys, Lauren. But all joke aside.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is going to be the next federal freako. You
can you can see it coming a mile away.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
But who gets in trouble at that point?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Is it the artist or the art label? No, it's
because because it's artist the label that's paying.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It for all.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I'm probably both, but that also happened. They also have
artists that are doing it independependently the label, and they're
gaming the label as well. So that's what that's That
goes back to what you're saying, you know what I mean,
Like you hire these people, they boost up, you know,
they boost up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, this is crazy, right.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And that report that we did about those raids that
were happening back in Turkey at the I was told
that they were happening at the offices of Universal, Sony
and other major record labels in Turkey. That was back
in September, and that was because of a broader allegation
regarding artists on those label paying for individuals like on
like a playlist, placements and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
These artists are going to Turkey to get their head
done and the freaking bot farms to get the new airlines. Yo,
this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Teeth too, teeth too, yeah, airliness streams, all of it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Do we have time for anything else?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Nope? Okay, all right, Well that's the latest with Laura
Charlatman who get me down.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Two man, far after the hour. We need a guy
named Harrison Coleman. He's fifty years old. He needs to
come to the front of the congregation. We would like
to have a word with him. Uh his story. I
expect to hear a lot more of it over the
next few months, but we'll discuss all right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Good morning. This is the DS Hip Hop and R
and B ninety seven nine w j LB, Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're a lesser play my favorite station.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Getting ninety seven point nine WJLB station from iHeartRadio
Let's get to the latest with Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Lauren be coming straight fast.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
She gets somebody that knows somebody.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm a long girl that knows a little bit about everything,
and she'd be having the latest on the latest with
Lauren la Rosa.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details. Sometimes you
have a little bit of everything.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
The lead on the Breakfast Club, Hey, good morning, here you.
So there's a there's a new class action lawsuit. So
there's a ton of people who have got together the
fatherst lawsuit. But the lead plaintiff is a rapper named
RBX who is also known as a cousin to Snoop Dogg.
And what his claiming is that Spotify should be in
(00:42):
trouble because they have turned a blind eye to a
mascal fraudulent streaming like scam situation. And he points to
Drake as an artist and says that Drake among a
ton of artists, but specifically the example given in the
lawsuit is about Drake. They say that Drake has benefited
benefited from the mass scale fraudulent streaming, and the lawsuit
(01:02):
it doesn't say that Drake himself did anything wrong. The
lawsuit is against us Spotify. Well, not that he didn't
do anything wrong. But the lawsuit isn't against Drake, it's
against Spotify. But basically what they're claiming is that every
month of Spotify has billions of fraudulent streams that are
generated from fake, illegitimate or illegal methods like bots, and
(01:25):
this happens at a mass scale and it hurts other
people and other artists on Spotify that will be making
money because you make money off of your streams. So
if your streams are not, you know, blown up, and
these numbers aren't big and huge, you're not competing. So
you're not making money the way that you would be,
especially because of these huge, blown up numbers that artists
like the allege a Drake has happening. So they're saying
(01:47):
to Spotify, you guys should be heard responsible for the
money that we are not making. And they give an
example of, you know, basically saying like Drake has all
these billions of streams across Spotify, but approximately thirty seven
billion streams were inauthentic and appeared to be the work
of a network of bot accounts. Is with their alleging,
and they alleged that this activity took place between January
(02:09):
twenty twenty two and September twenty twenty five, And it
also claims that an examination of Drake's streams revealed at
normal VPN usage which had you know, weird like locations,
which they're also pointing to buy accounts used for streaming
various songs they say. For instance, the lawsuit claims that
over a four day period in twenty twenty four, at
(02:30):
least two hundred and fifty thousand streams of his song
No Face originated in Turkey. So yeah, they're trying to
and this is ironic because you guys know, Drake has
been on this whole thing with like bots and allegations
of people using bots to fix streams in the Universal
Music lawsuit with Kendrick and not like us.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I was just connected Lauren to when Spotify wasn't it
was Spotify was investigating the playlist's bribery allegations in Turkey.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Turkey early okay, So still working on specifics on the connection.
But because we broke that not well, we would have
wanted the first people to report that story as well too.
But what I believe is happening because people were trying
to figure out why are the investigations and all these
rays that we were talking about then happening in these
random locations. If you look at this lawsuit here, those
random locations are where they're tracking these like bot farms too.
(03:18):
So if you go and you get all the information
from the bot farms and these places where these VP
and accounts, which are these like basically online addresses that
show you you know, where.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
These as you know bot farms, is crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They have clip farms to streamers uses them too. It's
basically just a group of like people sitting behind you know,
computers or whatever that are doing whatever you tell them
or pay them to do. But basically, Charlotte Mane, to
answer your question, the locations like in here it says,
you know, there are these random locations that they're tracing
these bot farms back to that raid basically was them
(03:51):
going and saying, hey, we're trying to get some more
information here because something's about to happen. So if you
put two and two together, I think one over here,
what we talked about before the raids is them gathering
some evidence and now you have, uh, this you know,
big class action lawsuit that is saying we have the
evidence down here is the lawsuit. So I think what
you want to see is these two come together to
(04:12):
try and prove what their claiming is happening with allegedly
with Drake and a ton.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Of other artists. Yeah, I don't know about Drake, but
this is going to be a situation in the future,
because I feel like in the future this is going
to be like the next federal freak off, like one
of the next big federal cases, because this is illegal, Like,
it's gonna be a lot of artists we have been
using these botforms to blow their numbers up, blow.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Their digital sales up.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Not just their sales, but the control narratives on social media.
They're gonna find themselves in some some federal situations.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
But not only that. You use those those blatforms to
get more money from a record label to sign you, Right,
That's what's based.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
On essentially what this is a lie.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, and the bat forms. If you look on TikTok,
because I've seen pictures, I don't know if they're real
or not, but they have like a maybe like one
hundred phones set up, and one hundred phones are streaming
different artists.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So I guess you pay.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
These bot forms and the say you're paying in this
month is this artist?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And wait till Peter get involved, because you know they
got monkeys that know how to freaking be sittinguter type
and all of this stuff out. Yes, you ain't see Superman.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Shut up, goodbye, good bye.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Because as soon as it said some of the monkeys,
you know, I was thinking about all of them that
was just released that just got Yes, don't see the
connection they're not.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The last thing ain't thinking about is they just got
released last week and now all of a sudden, the lawsuit.
You're not paying attention. You not paying attention, You're not
paying attention. These monkeys out here telling telling they.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Snitch monkeys, Lauren. But all joke aside.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
This is going to be the next federal freako. You
can you can see it coming a mile away.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
But who gets in trouble at that point?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Is it the artist or the art label? No, it's
because because it's artist the label that's paying.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It for all.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I'm probably both, but that also happened. They also have
artists that are doing it independependently the label, and they're
gaming the label as well. So that's what that's That
goes back to what you're saying, you know what I mean,
Like you hire these people, they boost up, you know,
they boost up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, this is crazy, right.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And that report that we did about those raids that
were happening back in Turkey at the I was told
that they were happening at the offices of Universal, Sony
and other major record labels in Turkey. That was back
in September, and that was because of a broader allegation
regarding artists on those label paying for individuals like on
like a playlist, placements and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
These artists are going to Turkey to get their head
done and the freaking bot farms to get the new airlines. Yo,
this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Teeth too, teeth too, yeah, airliness streams, all of it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Do we have time for anything else?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Nope? Okay, all right, Well that's the latest with Laura
Charlatman who get me down.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Two man, far after the hour. We need a guy
named Harrison Coleman. He's fifty years old. He needs to
come to the front of the congregation. We would like
to have a word with him. Uh his story. I
expect to hear a lot more of it over the
next few months, but we'll discuss all right.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We'll get to that next.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Good morning. This is the DS Hip Hop and R
and B ninety seven nine w j LB, Detroit.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're a lesser play my favorite station.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Getting ninety seven point nine WJLB station from iHeartRadio
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