payola

“It’s what we would have historically called payola,” said NIL professor and lawyer Robert Boland, a former college athlete.

In papers filed in New York, Drake’s company, Frozen Moments LLC, accused the companies of engaging in an illegal ”scheme” involving bots, payola and other methods to promote Lamar’s song.

There remain battles to be fought, whisper campaigns to be hatched, payola scandals to be investigated.

It's not just the payola, but what it represents: an imperious court stacked with far-right justices who have become petty tyrants.

Unfortunately, the show mostly skims over the fact that in addition to hobnobbing with Levy — they both eventually went down for payola — Freed overindulged in booze and women.