Drake, Adin Ross and Sweepsteaks Limited have been jointly sued in a class action case in Missouri.
Sweepsteaks is the parent company of popular sweepstakes casino website, Stake.us, which pays the 'Hotline Bling' singer and the Twitch streamer millions of dollars to promote its product.
Drake is sponsored by Stake.us and Stake.com, and he appears on their websites, encouraging people to join him in gambling with Stake.
The class action complaint alleges that when Stake finances promotional material of Drake and influencers like Ross, it is misleading the public into believing that they are doing so with their own money.
Stake suggests that users "have a chance to win big alongside Drake," when reportedly, Stake are fronting the cost of any 'losses.'
In Drake's case, he has been used in masses of promotional material in which he seems to gamble extensively - the lawsuit now seeks to create a class of Stake users in Missouri seeking restitution of losses from both the company and brand ambassadors.
It was reported that he has lost as much as $20m in one session, and he has been observed repeatedly stopping and then starting again.
During the Summer, he seemed to publicly call out the owners of Stake, calling Co-Founder Ed Craven 'a snake.'
This suit seems to call into question the sincerity of these losses and outbursts, indicating that they may have all been part of an elaborate publicity campaign.
Adin Ross is a video game Twitch streamer notable for interviewing Donald Trump on his channel and being banned from the platform a number of times for his use of slurs.
He has seven million followers on Twitch, and paired with Drake's worldwide celebrity, the two Stake.us ambassadors have a wide reach - the lawsuit claims that the potentially misleading conduct in question therefore threatens the welfare of young people in Missouri.
Drake is known for placing large bets on sporting events, a phenomenon that has made popular the viral theory of the 'Drake Curse,' whereby whoever he bets on will lose
