Fans online have accused Kendrick Lamar & Top Dawg Entertainment of juicing their numbers by using bots. Moosa, Punch at the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players held at Unveiled on September 04, 2025 in New York, New York. Erica Harris DeValve/Billboard Trending on Billboard Punch, Top Dawg Entertainment’s president, stopped by The Joe Budden Podcast recently and was asked directly about “the bot allegations” that have been levied by fans online in a Patreon clip that has surfaced online . “I don’t got nothing to say about it,” he answered. “We don’t bot.” Budden then peppered him with a series of questions where he asked if he ever purchased bots, if he knows where to purchase bots, and if he’s aware of people in the industry using bots to their advantage, with Punch answering “no” to every question except the last one, to which he added that juicing numbers has been an industry practice since the days of Myspace.…