Hirschfield claims he wrote the demo in December 2025 and January 2026 over an audio bed he’d received from producer duo Michael “Finatik” Mulé and Isaac “Zac” De Boni (known as FNZ), frequent Drake collaborators. Hirschfield interpolated the 2011 Lykke Li track “I Follow Rivers” and says he specifically wrote the song for Drake, with whom he’d previously worked as a co-writer on the 2022 Beyoncé track “Heated.”

According to the lawsuit, Hirschfield sent his finished demo to FNZ and other producers who worked with Drake, but never got a reply. He first heard “Janice STFU” when Iceman came out on streaming. “Fifteen seconds in, Avi was stunned to hear Drake perform word-for-word, note-for-note, beat-by-beat, the exact same chorus that he (Avi) had recorded and sent,” reads the complaint.

FNZ are credited as co-writers on “Janice STFU,” which also interpolates “I Follow Rivers.” Hirschfield says the song’s hook is “literally identical” to both the melody and lyrics from his demo,

Since the song’s release, Hirschfield says he has requested a co-writer credit and publishing splits for “Janice STFU.” But Drake’s lawyers allegedly “shamelessly refuse to acknowledge Avi’s authorship,” maintaining that Drake wrote the chorus on his own even after Hirschfield provided them with his stems and metadata.

billboard.com/pro/drake-janice-stfu-lawsuit-songwriter-sues-copied-demo

teach me baby

This is like the 5th accusation of robbery for iceman era alone

That’s why he ain’t tweet my album!

Everytime something like this come out it comes out as false like months later

We don't care what people say

Little birdie accusation still stands solid. No one cares about it though because the artist of the OG is terrible

This is facts imo

If drake stole ur song and made it better is for fault for being a talentless f***

Album credits still not up for a reason lol

That bald white dude on twitter bout to bust a nut over this

OK yeah this is just a dude trying to get a bag lol

he was posting FOMO s***

No wonder they wont release the damn credits

Stolen ideas and AI all over that damn album

What this suppoused to mean lol, he probably thought he would be compensated, he literally co-wrote the Beyonce song

I know exactly who you’re talking bout

just looked this up and wtf. dude really think we believe it was 5+ producers on every song and no writers?

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i mean not saying he is lyng or saying the truth, we will see after the case settles

but album came in may, if u posting s*** about it on september its kinda weird imo like at that point u know they f***ing u over like why make a friendly post

@op hiding them threads for a reason lol. Hopefully a mod doesn’t expose them again

Funniest part is this Avi dude is credited on Wikipedia on Janice

September he was probably still asking them to credit him, totally normal for him to share a remix for a song he wrote?

Art is meant to be stolen and perfected

Drake dropped this year?