Somebody Used A.I. To Produce Nas' "NY State Of Mind", Rapped By Notorious B.I.G. And It Is Mt. St. Helens Fire Flames
I blogged about this a couple weeks ago but AI has been disrupting the music game big time the past 6 months.
Artists are freaking out. Labels are freaking out. Nobody knows what to do, how to get ahold of this, how to regulate it, or how to prevent it.
It's been great watching the music industry, and labels, run by dinosaurs, scramble like chickens with their heads caught off because they have no idea how this is happening. Nevermind how to fix it.
But the other great thing has been actually getting to hear from of the results of these neural net processors; learning computers.
And I don't think I've heard anything as good as this one that the internet is currently losing its mind over today.
You've got one of the greatest rap songs of all time, off one of the greatest albums of all time (Illmatic), "NY State Of Mind"
redone by (IMO) the greatest rapper of all time.
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And the result is pure flames.
Universal is freaking out over a stupid fake Drake & The Weeknd collab, named "Heart On My Sleeve" that went semi-viral the other night.
(Yahoo) Universal Music Group caught wind of the record and put out a statement about what it could mean for music down the road. “UMG’s success has been, in part, due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists — as we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already,” they wrote.
“With that said, however, the training of generative AI using our artists’ music (which represents both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation.”
But nobody has yet to address (officially) how to navigate things regarding dead artists.
This is the shit we actually want, and care about.
I hope the nerds who know how to produce these songs continue to do so. Give us some of these dream collabs from dead artists that we missed out on. Hearing Big go in on the song Nas wrote is great, but hearing them go back and forth, like they were supposed to do back once upon a time, before Nas got too high, would be even better.
p.s. - getting two of the greatest DJs to ever do it geeked out by tweeting this was pretty fucking cool not gonna lie