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Young Money's Drake is ready to put up a fight after being singled out by a New York jeweler over his now-iconic owl pendant and slapped with a hefty lawsuit.
According to reports, Drizzy has fought back and stated his OVO symbol’s inspiration dates back to the Egyptians.
TMZ broke the story … New York jeweler Michael Raphael of Baden Baden, Inc. claims he created a $50K diamond studded platinum owl pendant for Drake … based on a logo he’s been using for years. The jeweler claimed Drizzy then knocked off replicas of the pendant … thus the lawsuit. In his legal docs, Drake says the jeweler doesn’t own the design — pharaohs do … because it’s based on an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph — a symbol that may be more than 5,000 years old. Drake says the owl hieroglyph — a pictographic symbol for the letter ‘M’ — can’t be copyrighted … so the jeweler’s case is bogus. Drake wants the jeweler to Tut up … so he’s asking the judge to throw the case out. (TMZ)
Back in September, reports revealed a jeweler was going after Drizzy’s pockets over making alleged knockoffs.
Drake’s expensive jewelry collection is coming back to bite him in the ass — a famous jeweler is suing him over a $50,000 owl pendant … claiming Drake illegally made knockoffs of it for his friends. The jeweler Baden Baden Inc. (owned by designer Michael Raphael) filed the lawsuit, claiming Drizzy hired the company to make a custom diamond-studded platinum owl pendant back in January … and paid $49,204. Then in June … BB claims gold duplicates of the pendant started surfacing on Drake’s Instagram. (TMZ)
Despite the hefty suit, Drake has been known for using the iconic owl on his music dating back two years.
According to the lawsuit, BB claims Drake took its original design, copied it, and handed out the knockoffs to his pals. Baden Baden is suing for copyright infringement, demanding unspecified damages, and asking the court to force Drake to hand over the owl copies. One potential sticking point — Drake’s been using the owl logo for years … it’s the freakin’ cover of his 2011 mixtape. (TMZ)
The rapper also dons a tattoo of his OVO owl on the upper part of his back.
When the photo of Drake’s Aaliyah tattoo surfaced, folks couldn’t stop talking about Drizzy’s back ink. Now, a photo of the rapper in the gym showing his other tattoos has hit the web. In the newly surfaced pic, we see that he also has an OVO owl and more. Despite having a few tattoos on his back, Drake’s label boss Lil Wayne wasn’t with the idea of Drake getting tatted up. In a interview with MTV a few years ago, Drake spoke on Weezy giving him advice on the body ink. “He told me something I never thought I’d hear him say, which was, ‘You’re the ultimate artist. You’re better than me. You don’t have the tattoos, you don’t cause any trouble. People like you.’ He was like, basically, ‘Look at me and look at you.’ (VIBE)
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