Celebrity impersonators have been around for decades, and many make a living off of the famous person they look like. Such was the case with ‘Fake Drake’, a man who first went viral in 2021 after being booked to make club appearances instead of the real one. Grandpa Champagne. For its part, Duck and his team were not satisfied with his work.
Drake was impersonated by “Fake Drake”
Duck isn’t the first celebrity to impersonate him; after all, impersonate artists like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson is a career for many around the world. the drake lookalike rose to notoriety as “Izzyy Drake” in 2021. He revealed on social media that he was paid $5,000 for event visits to appear as the famous Toronto rapper.
“People say to me, ‘Hey, you want to come to my event because I can’t afford Drake, he’s too expensive,’ he explained on the no rider podcast. “I will pay you $5,000. $5,000 just for showing up. They pay my Airbnb, they pay the flight, they hang everything. »
His booking price began to climb as he later bragged about being paid $10,000 for performances.
Drake sent Fake Drake a cease and desist
In late 2022, Izzyy Drake announced he was taking on a new nickname, IzzyyFamous, after receiving a gift from Drake’s team on his OVO label: a cease and desist letter.
“Happy birthday to the greatest artist in history and my greatest inspiration,” the budding artist wrote on instagram. “I got this cease and desist letter from OVO [a] a few days ago and as a respectful birthday present to @champagnepapi, I changed my name from IzzyyDrake to IzzyyFamous,” he added.
“This letter serves as notice of your unauthorized use of the ‘OVO’ trademark to promote your brand and likeness, and of your unauthorized manufacture of media which is inherently harmful and defamatory to our brand,” the letter reads. . “Your actions taken are unwarranted, unwelcome and unacceptable [sic].”
“Further, this will serve as a pre-trial letter requiring that you provide us with written assurance within 7 days that you will cease and desist from making any other factually false statements involving OVO Sound and/or Drake, and that you will no longer make manufacture media that represent the aforementioned brands,” the letter continues.
Despite Drake’s seemingly biting style, IzzyyFamous has nothing but appreciation for the rapper. In September 2022, he released the track “Letter to Drizzy”, where he showed his love for the rapper and expressed the positive impact he had on his life.
Drake wanted to slap Fake Drake
In June 2022, Izzy signed a deal with Celebrity Boxing and challenged Drake to a seven figure fight. “If I win, you gotta sign me to OVO or you gotta give me $1 million,” he said in the video. “If you win, I will change my name.”
In an August 2022 interview on the We in Miami podcast, he revealed that Drake’s team wasn’t very keen on the idea.
“I stopped at Drake’s hotel with my management. Let’s just say it wasn’t very inviting,” he said honestly. “They just tried to come our way, so I ended up texting him , telling him about the fight and he said he was going to stop and slap me for free.”
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