Drake has filed a cease and desist letter on his "Fake Drake" lookalike, requiring him to replace his name. Izzy Drake, who climbed to social media celebrity by copying the Toronto rapper over the previous year, took to Instagram on Monday (October 24) to publish a legal notice from Drizzy's OVO Sound label.
The letter, which was delivered on Thursday (October 20), requested that Izzy cease utilizing Drake's name, likeness, and trademarks, which they said 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 unacceptable.”
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.”
Following being slapped with a cease and desist letter, Fake Drake changed his name to Izzy Famous and wished the real Drake, who turned 36 on Monday, a good birthday.
"Happy birthday to history's greatest artist and my greatest 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.”