Drake Serves Fake Drake With A Cease & Desist Notice — Forcing Him To Change His Name
Drake has served Fake Drake with a cease and desist notice, forcing him to change his name.
Fake Drake — previously known officially as Izzy Drake — took to Instagram on Monday (October 24) to share a photo of a warning from Drizzy’s OVO Sound label. The letter was sent on Thursday (October 20) and pointed out the unauthorized use of OVO and unauthorized fabrication of media.
“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, changing his name to Izzy Famous and wishing Drake 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 letter comes after Izzy Drake claimed Drake threatened to slap him while they were both in Miami ahead of his October boxing match with YouTuber M2thak.
“I pulled up to Drake’s hotel room, let’s just say it wasn’t very inviting,” he said 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.”
However, Fake Drake previously claimed Drake wasn’t concerned about being impersonated, according to a mutual professional gambler friend in Las Vegas.
“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,’” he said at the time. “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.”
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He claimed he was earning $5,000 for event appearances in November 2021, in addition to flights and accommodation.
“I’m touring, I’ve got some music events I gotta show up to,” Fake Drake said. “People DM me like, ‘Hey, you wanna come to my event because I can’t pay Drake – he’s too expensive. I’ll pay you $5,000.’ $5,000 just to show up. They pay my Airbnb, they pay the flight, they hook it all up.”