Looks like a Twitter detective may have just caught French Montana red-handed.

Back in September, French released what he thought would turn out to be a hit single in “Writing on the Wall” featuring Post Malone & Cardi B, however it wasn’t until very recently that the song has seen success on streaming services – or more specifically Spotify.

Now, thanks to some deep digging by the Twitter user @Karlamagne, it’s become clear that the cause for the spike in streams is fraudulent.

Check out the thread which exposes French for using hacked Spotify accounts to boost streams below.

french montana’s out here buying streams in a desperate attempt to turn his 3 months old flop song into a hit

[THREAD] pic.twitter.com/tWclM8F647

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

the song was released on sept 27, 2019 and it wasn’t very successful despite having two popular rappers featured on it. it charted for 5 weeks & left the top 200 on spotify, then re-entered 3 weeks later & even reached a new peak on spotify US today & this is where it gets weird pic.twitter.com/kuokWO1NZ5

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

apparently the reason why it’s charting again is because it’s currently popular on tiktok…then why is it only rising on spotify? i mean when you look at the pics the difference between spotify and apple music is astounding.

#21 (+27) on spotify
#1192 (-105) on apple music??? pic.twitter.com/7JKYN7rrDn

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

apparently the reason why it’s charting again is because it’s currently popular on tiktok…then why is it only rising on spotify? i mean when you look at the pics the difference between spotify and apple music is astounding.

#21 (+27) on spotify
#1192 (-105) on apple music??? pic.twitter.com/7JKYN7rrDn

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

look carefully at the dates most of those tweets were sent, between 18-25 december 2019. now look at the date “writing on the wall” re-entered spotify US. december 22. y’all see where i’m going with this? pic.twitter.com/ilkxKBW9sY

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

it’s more than clear that french montana’s label is buying streams and trying to make it seem like the song is rising on its own because it’s popular on tiktok pic.twitter.com/PkdxEpeIm5

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020

in conclusion its really easy to get a hit song nowadays, all you need is a fraudulent label who’s willing to spend money on you. so if you see writing on the wall by french montana in the top 10 on billboard next month don’t forget to come back to this thread. that’s all for now pic.twitter.com/jBmM0Vs7we

— karl (@karlamagne) January 2, 2020