"Ain’t he the most streamed artist on there?" - Fans react to Drake calling Spotify "Botify" on BenDaDonnn's livestream

A clip of Drake referring to Spotify as "Botify" recently went viral on social media. The Canadian rapper's comment came when he joined streamer BenDaDonnn for a livestream on December 21, 2025.

According to the now-viral clip, the streamer asked for motivational music to be played in the background, with Drake replying that he could find that kind of music on Spotify, intentionally mispronouncing the streaming platform's name as "Botify."

"I can play it on Botify real quick, I mean Sp..." he said.

Drake's blunder was met with varied responses from netizens on X, with one user seemingly pointing out that he was the most-streamed artist on the platform. In November 2025, Drake was named the platform's most-streamed rapper, racking up 1.5 million streams that month.

"Ain’t he the most streamed artist on there?"

Several netizens shared similar views, claiming that Drake was admitting to using bots with his comment.

Meanwhile, others suggested that the rapper's comment was meant as a joke, claiming that he was just "rage baiting" people.

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Spotify was recently accused of using bots to boost Drake's streaming numbers

In November 2025, Spotify faced a class action lawsuit accusing the platform of using bots to boost the streaming numbers of prominent artists, citing Drake as the main example. According to Rolling Stone, the lawsuit, filed in California District Court, listed rapper RBX (Snoop Dogg's cousin) as the lead plaintiff.

The complaint alleged that the streaming platform had “turned a blind eye” to “mass-scale fraudulent streaming” on its platform, accusing Drake of benefitting from “billions” of fake streams. It also alleged that the “mass scale” streaming fraud “causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders.”

The complaint was not made against Drake and only names Spotify as the sole defendant. It alleged that the Canadian rapper's 37 billion streams on Spotify were “inauthentic and appeared to be the work of a sprawling network of Bot Accounts.”

The lawsuit also claimed the alleged botting took place between January 2022 and September 2025, noting instances of “abnormal VPN usage” by accounts that streamed Drake's songs. The rapper's song No Face reportedly had 250,000 streams originating from Turkey over four days in 2024, "but were falsely geomapped through the coordinated use of VPNs to the United Kingdom in [an] attempt to obscure their origins.”

Furthermore, the lawsuit added that “the number of streams of Drake’s music attributable to individual accounts is staggering and irregular,” claiming that their data showed a “massive amount of accounts listening to Drake’s music” for “23 hours a day.”

A spokesperson for the streaming platform addressed the lawsuit in a statement at the time, claiming that it did not benefit from artificial streaming. The statement also said that the company invested in "removing fake streams, withholding royalties, and charging penalties," adding:

“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."

The statement continued:

"Our systems are working: In a case from last year, one bad actor was indicted for stealing $10 million 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.”

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Notably, the lawsuit against Spotify involving Drake came weeks after a court dismissed the rapper's defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group in October 2025. In his complaint, the Canadian star had accused the label of using payola to artificially inflate Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us amid their 2024 rap beef.

Edited by Juhi Marzia