Kick streamer Adin Ross and rapper Drake have been hit with another lawsuit over their involvement in promoting online gambling platform Stake.
Plaintiffs LaShawnna Ridley and Tiffany Hines filed the suit in a Virginia court on Wednesday, December 31, alleging that both Drake and Ross had misled users by purporting to gamble with their own funds, which the plaintiffs claim were actually provided to them by Stake.
“The two have engaged in live-streamed gambling, wagering large sums of money that was provided surreptitiously by Stake,” the suit reads. “In other words, though Drake and Ross purported to be gambling with their own Stake Cash, it was in fact provided to them by the house.”
Additionally, Ridley and Hines accused Ross, Drake, and a third defendant, George Ngyuen, of using Stake’s tipping system to move large amounts of money between themselves.
They claim Nguyen served as a “facilitator” or “broker” in the alleged scheme, accusing him of “converting Stake-based cryptocurrency to cash… interfacing with bot vendors, supervising coordinated amplification strategies, and integrating paid ‘clipping’ campaigns.”
Drake has appeared on several of Adin Ross’s live streams in broadcasts sponsored by Stake.
The plaintiffs notably claimed that Drake and Ross used a public $100,000 tip to fund a botting system of artificial accounts to “create fraudulent streams of Drake’s music” and “fabricate popularity; disparage competitors and music label executives; distort recommendation algorithms; and distribute financing for all of the foregoing, while concealing the flow of funds.”
Virginia lawsuit accuses Drake & Adin Ross of misleading Stake users
Furthermore, Ridley and Heins named Stake as “one of the largest and most profitable illegal online casinos” since 2022, and claimed that both Ross and Drake, along with Ngyuen, created a criminal enterprise to both promote and operate an illegal gambling platform in the guise of an above-board online casino.
The plaintiffs are seeking three times the amount of actual damages in the case under RICO and the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, as well as restitution and disgorgement and attorneys’ fees.
This is the second time Drake and Ross have been sued for their involvement with Stake in 2025. The two were hit with a similar lawsuit on October 27, which accused them of “deceptive, fraudulent and unfair” practices that violated Missouri law.
This isn’t the first time that Drake has been named in a lawsuit alongside allegations of buying fake streams for his music; in November, Spotify was hit with a lawsuit claiming a “substantial, non-trivial percentage” of Drake’s roughly 37 billion streams were “inauthentic” and linked to a supposed bot operation.
Thus far, neither Drake nor Ross have offered a public comment on this latest suit.
