The cover of Drake's “Certified Lover Boy” album album — that Siri allegedly hides from you — image courtesy of Drake
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Drake has started a feud with Apple by claiming that Siri has been bribed to play Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” even when you ask for “Certified Lover Boy.”
When radio stations across the country played different songs, there was a bribe issue, where a DJ could be paid to promote certain songs. Rapper Drake believes it still continues to this day, but the DJ in question is Siri.
“Upon information and belief, UMG [Universal Music Group] paid or authorized payments to Apple Inc. to have its voice-activated digital assistant Siri intentionally redirect users to ‘Not Like Us,’” Drake’s lawyers said in a lawsuit filed in court. “Online sources reported that when users asked Siri to play the album ‘Certified Loverboy’ by recording artist Aubrey Drake Graham, who goes by the name Drake, Siri instead played ‘Not Like Us,’ which includes the lyrics ‘certified pedophile,’ an indictment against Drake.”
So Siri, perhaps fearing losing its job when Apple Intelligence properly kicked in, was allegedly taking a swipe from Kendrick Lamar. That’s definitely not all, because Siri has been known to get it right the first ten times you ask for a song, and then suddenly get it wildly wrong the next time.
No, it’s not. The thing is, Apple apparently doesn’t think it can count on us knowing the title of a song we like. It thinks we can, if we’re lucky, remember some of the lyrics.
And yes, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” includes the line “certified lover boy.” It’s a direct reference to the title of Drake’s song, and it’s at least supposedly about a feud between the two men.
You’d think a song with a line in the title would carry more weight than one with those words in the lyrics, but apparently you’d be wrong. It might help that Lamar’s song came out in May 2024, while Drake’s song came out in 2021.
So maybe Siri is prioritizing newer releases. Or, you know, the release that won three BET Hip Hop Awards and is now nominated for five Grammys, despite the fact that you've never heard of it.
But before Drake drags Tim Cook to court for trying to line his pockets with some small fraction of Apple's hourly revenue, there's a problem. While witnesses say Siri plays the wrong song, they specifically say it does so on Spotify.
Use Siri to play “Certified Lover Boy” on Apple Music, and it plays the right track. So maybe Drake should sue Spotify for being trash.
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