City of Toronto scolds Drake for using logo
By Petar Kujundzic / News / December 10, 2011 / 4429 Views

It appears that the city of Toronto is not too fond of a billboard for Drake's new album Take Care. As October's Very Own points out, the Toronto Star published an article indicating that the famed rapper failed to ask permission to use a modified version of the official city logo on Gardiner Expressway in order to promote his album. City spokeswoman Francine Antonio-Forte commented to the newspaper:

“We would suggest that the treatment of the word Toronto used on the billboard is very similar to the wordmark that forms part of the Toronto logo. The similarity of the wordmarks, in conjunction with other creative elements used for the billboard, may cause some confusion about the source of the information.”

You can see the actual sign of Toronto here, so you be the judge if you think this complaint is justified or not.

Source: Pitchfork

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  • Anonymous

    Eh...that's a stretch lol

  • Skylar

    They should be praising him. His music sucks but his graphic design team is on point.

  • Skylar

    They should be praising him. His music sucks but his graphic design team is on point.

  • http://www.facebook.com/gnutgrass Garrett Nutgrass

    In other news looks like we may get a Throne 2...let's keep watching

  • L3GG

    At least its added 255,609 people to the city ! Ha

  • M!stro

    Who cares, he still showing love.

  • http://soundclick.com/paypal/?bandid=1007210 Kotti KaDotti

    THAT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE, DUDE TRYING TO GIVE LOVE TO HIS CITY WHEN NOBODY ELSE CAN EVEN GIVE A F*CK ABOUT TORONTO EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.

  • Edmonton

    Birdman came up to Toronto with fake cards

  • Edmonton

    Birdman came up to Toronto with fake cards

  • http://twitter.com/davdalexander David Alexander

    The logo looks more like this http://bit.ly/fLQO4v

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  • bematical

    This is stupid. What the hell does that even mean "showing love to Toronto"? And nobody else giving a fuck? Why would they? THEY DONT LIVE THERE. Ppl visit & rave about Toronto all the time. ITS TORONTO, AN INTERNATIONAL CITY. DRAKE DIDN'T SHIT FOR US, HE JUST HAPPENS TO BE FROM HERE.

  • john

    Are you serious..

  • Bob Sagat

    did they ground him too?

  • Hd889

    Heres a better picture of City of Toronto's logo:
    http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/5/50532/1710711-toronto_logo.gif

  • http://twitter.com/_brodre zachary

    Dear Toronto, 
    Aubrey seems to be doing you guys a favor. Clearly you, as a city, are jealous of his billboard. The take care billboard is in much better taste. 

  • http://twitter.com/_brodre zachary

    Dear Toronto, 
    Aubrey seems to be doing you guys a favor. Clearly you, as a city, are jealous of his billboard. The take care billboard is in much better taste. 

  • Torosnegros

    The city of Toronto has much bigger problems to worry about than something as silly as this.  Is this really what the municipal government is being paid for?

  • sos

    relax bro i think drake did i wee bit more for our city then you or i did

  • bematical

    What did Drake do for our city? Dying to know. He did more for Toronto than you & I? So? Really? lmao.