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Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
"Capitol Records Cuts Ties With Robot Rapper, Apologizes To Black Community For ‘Insensitivity’"


An AI-powered robot rap star just got canceled days after being signed by a major record label.

FN Meka boasts millions of followers on TikTok, but now the faux rap artist has been abruptly dropped following backlash against his lyrics and overall persona. The record label also issued an apology to any people they may have offended by signing the futuristic performer.

“CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately,” a Capitol Music Group spokesperson said in a statement, per Yahoo.

“We offer our deepest apologies to the Black community for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behind it. We thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days — your input was invaluable as we came to the decision to end our association with the project.”

The apology comes in response to an open letter created by the activist group Industry Blackout, the publication noted. Its criticism called FN Meka a “direct insult to the Black community and our culture” by being an “amalgamation of gross stereotypes [and] appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics.”

Meka’s single “Florida Water,” which was released on the Capitol Records label, was also removed from all streaming platforms.

The Daily Wire originally reported that the AI rap star was created using technology that analyzed the most popular elements of rap songs to create hits. Creators Anthony Martini and Brandon Le said everything except for Meka’s voice was computer generated.

“As of now, a human voice performs the vocals, but we are working towards the ability to have a computer come up with and perform its own words — and even collaborate with other computers as ‘co-writers,’” Martini said during an interview last year.

The entrepreneur explained how he believed AI-generated music is the way of the future. “The old model of finding talent is inefficient and unreliable,” Martini said. “It requires spending time scouring the internet, traveling to shows, flying to meetings, expending resources all in search of the magic combination of qualities that just might translate into a superstar act.”

FN Meka portrayed a stereotypical rap star, complete with designer clothing and expensive jewelry. However, critics saw the mimicry of rap culture as a mockery, and ultimately CMG walked back its desire to start a new kind of rap trend.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-r…

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Papi_Chulo
2 years ago
I can def understand the black-community's disapproval of the robot-rapper - my issue is that if the robot was speaking/mimicking negatively w.r.t. white-people then I wonder if the robot would have been cancelled.
san_jose_guy
2 years ago
Afro Americans are still a stigmatized minority, so there does have to be additional caution about denigrating them.

SJG
Muddy
2 years ago
We are on Planet Xenon
skibum609
2 years ago
Wah, wah, wah, the black community - we love to bitch and whine about racism, while actually being the worst, sickest racists on earth. Just look at how many members of the fucked up congressional Black caucus want to suck Lousi Farrakhan's cock. Failed community; everywhere on the planet, but its every else's fault.
san_jose_guy
2 years ago
^ still hoping Leni Riefenstahl will give him credit for writing the words for "The Infernal Jew".

SJG
gammanu95
2 years ago
With all the auto-tuned and digitally mastered albums bring released, aren't they all robots?
skibum609
2 years ago
Rap is simply music for the stupid. Look back 50 years ago and you will realize that people of today are morons. I deal intimately with people every day and most of them amaze me by being able to get up and dress themselves in the morning. You even see it with poker where traditional poker games such as stud and five card draw have been replaced by Texas Hold Em which is a betting game masquerading as a card game. Hold em benefits the aggressive moron with money to waste, not the ones who can actually play the game. Thats why Omaha was invented; it's for card players.
Icee Loco (asshole)
2 years ago
Skibum you're the one touting replacement theory and supporting shooting blacks. Think being white supremacist is a compliment. You have some real problems.
skibum609
2 years ago
My biggest problem today is that when I have over $35,000.00 in retainers in my IOLTA account, I get stressed over all the work I have to do. Today I went over $75,000.00. I am just making too much money and am beginning to fear that no matter how long I live I won't be able to piss it all away. CBC = fucking dogshit. Now fuck off boy.
rattdog
2 years ago
i heard it somewhere where p diddy was in front of these interns. he flat out told them that he wasn't interested in signing good talent. instead he was more focused on promoting lesser talents and offering a dumber downed product.

i do wonder wonder what the percentage of the rappers today inside their heads were thinking that "holy shit, AI sounds actually better than the shit we've ben putting out."
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