Drake has served his “Fake Drake” lookalike with a cease and desist notice, forcing him to change his name.
Izzy Drake, who has shot to social media fame over the last year by impersonating the Toronto rapper, took to Instagram on Monday (October 24) to share a legal warning he received from Drizzy’s OVO Sound label.
The letter was sent on Thursday (October 20) and demanded Izzy stop using Drake’s name, likeness and trademarks, which they claimed were “damaging and defamatory” to the OVO brand.
“Notice to cease and desist,” the letter began. “Dear IzzyyDrake, this letter serves as a notice of your unauthorized use of the trademark, ‘OVO’ to promote your brand and likeness, as well as your unauthorized fabrication of media which is Per Se damaging and defamatory to our brand. Your conducted actions are unwarranted, unwelcome, and inacceptable.”
It continued: “In addition, this shall serve as a pre-suit letter demanding that you provide us written assurance within 7 days that you will cease and desist from making any further factually untrue statements involving OVO Sound and/or Drake, and that you will no longer fabricate media that portrays the aforementioned Trademarks. Thank you for your cooperation.”
Despite being issued with the cease and desist, there were no hard feelings on Fake Drake’s part as he changed his name to Izzy Famous and wished the real Drake — who turned 36 on Monday — a happy birthday.
“Happy birthday to the greatest artist in history and my biggest inspiration,” he wrote. “I got this cease and desist letter from OVO couple days ago and as a respectful b day gift to @champagnepapi I changed my name from IzzyyDrake to Izzyyfamous. More life my OVO brother @preme @bakanotnice @tvgucci.”
The cease and desist notice comes after Izzy Drake claimed Drake threatened to slap him while they were both in Miami earlier this year.
“I pulled up to Drake’s hotel room, let’s just say it wasn’t very inviting,” he told the We In Miami Podcast in August. “They tried coming at us, they just tried coming at us so I ended up texting him, telling him about the fight and he said that he’s gonna go up and slap me for free.”
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Before that, however, Izzy Drake claimed a mutual gambler friend told him that Drake wasn’t bothered by his lucrative lookalike hustle, which was allowing him to earn as much as $5,000 a night.
“He got in contact with Drake and Drake was just like, ‘It doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t affect me. Let the guy get his bag. It’s not affecting me. If you think it’s gonna go wrong if you’re posting him on your [Instagram Stories] and everything, just keep the peace,'” Izzy said on the No Jumper podcast.
“He didn’t really give a fuck, you know? That was the whole thing. I’m just being humble, I’m doing my thing. I got kids – I’m doing this shit for my family.”
Whatever you say about Drake that “Started from the bottom” is one dope Drizzy joint.
You mean “Started Out A Bottom” cuz that’s what he did. Now he’s on “Top” of the rap game. LMAO!!! He’s the most versatile “rapper/singer/bisexual” in the rap game. Canada’s Pride and joy.
Whoa! Skrrrt! Skrrrt!
In the words of the almighty Pink Guy, he took it in the bottom now he’s queer. Took it in the bottom. Now the whole team’s f**kin queer.
That joke wasn’t funny back when bart baker made the parody
Drake is the biggest scam to ever disgrace hip-hop and you losers keep sucking him off.
How was he a scam?
Lol Drake started from the “bottom”
From mean the streets of Canada going to an all white school. Man he really made it hahahaha
Hahaha
But I mean I like the track in itself. It’s straight dope. I’m not one of those Drizzy fans though. These Drake “bottom” jokes are ridiculous. Skrrrt! Skrrrt!
Not even to be known as Fake Drake… Whoa!
The fake drake joke went on too long when he started doing stuff the real drake wouldn’t do. Her loss about to have the biggest opening week this year!!
Stop being gay please.
You know damn well her loss will run the streets and clubs everywhere this week.
Yeah, this week. Then it’ll fall off quick.
Jimmy cooks is being played everywhere even today.
Too bad we know you won’t fall off though, you’re a professional dick rider so you’ll never lose your grip.
This dude looks nothing like Drake
More like Drake’s distant cousin!
That’s what I’m saying!!! People were on some bandwagon tip hyping this dude up. Took Drake long enough sending that letter.Fake drizzy abandoned his real identity and forgot where he came from. Which equates to not knowing where he’s going in life. Full time impersonators really boggles me.
Thing is that’s probably the best thing you could ever receive from Drake is any attention at all. Let alone an OVO letter. Izzy’s mission was accomplished. Will always be known as fake Drake at this point lol
Drake is already fake so how ironic.
What a pity. Fake Drake is the perfect alias for dude to go by.
More like the Fake O’Shea Jackson Jr
Lol Drake
Drake impersonator is realer than Drake himself lol
Lol should have made drake change his name
He’s too Drake for Drake!
May the force be with you, Izzyy Famous! Bahahaha
The question is does the Fake Drake have the potential to do it better than the original Drake?