RICK ROSS BEING SUED FOR USING ANOTHER RAPPER’S NAME

Last year, Rick Ross was forced to settle a TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT lawsuit with former drug boss Ricky “Freeway” Ross, and now the Maybach Music Group CEO is at the center of another trademark suit over the title of his popular 2010 albumTeflon Don.

Rapper Teflon Don (born Donald Askey Jr.) alleges that Ross, along with DJ Khaled, Universal Music Group, Slip-N-Slide Records, Def Jam Recordings and Maybach Music Group are all guilty of “trademark infringement, common-law trademark rights, trademark delusion, unfair competition, tortious interference AND FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT,” for illegally using his name.

Askey Jr. claims that back in 2007,  he was involved in projects with DJ Khaled who specifically called him out by name on the track “I Represent,” (Coast 2 Coast Mixtape Vol. 10) saying, “To my homie Teflon Don, we the best…”

“I’m building a name, I’m building a brand and for someone to come with an album and an alias the name Teflon Don and they have big budgets to put behind it, it blocks me from progressing,” he added. “I was climbing the ladder and it feels like I went straight downhill and I don’t feel like that’s fair.”