The rapper, who settled with iHeartMedia, suspects that the major label made secret payments and offered reduced licensing rates to third parties to promote the song.

"In exchange for documents that showed iHeart did nothing wrong, Drake agreed to drop his petition. No payments were made — by either one of us," iHeart said.

Drake’s lawyers cited Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show in his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over "Not Like Us."