Drake Diss Track with AI Tupac Shakur, ‘Taylor Made,’ Has Been Taken Down
by Tech Times
Tech Times— Drake's diss track with AI Tupac, 'Taylor Made,' is now gone. Drake is now pulling back after facing legal threats from Tupac Shakur's estate, with the Grammy award-winning hip-hop artist recently taking down the diss track, Taylor Made, which used AI-generated voices from West Coast legendary rappers.
Engadget—Drake deletes AI-generated Tupac track after Shakur’s estate threatened to sue. Drake apparently learned it isn’t wise to mess with Tupac Shakur — even decades after his untimely death. Billboard first spotted that the Canadian hip-hop artist deleted the X (Twitter) post with his track “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which used an AI-generated recreation of Shakur’s voice to try to get under Kendrick Lamar’s skin. The takedown came after an attorney representing the late hip-hop legend threatened to sue the Canadian rapper for his “unauthorized” use of Tupac’s voice if he didn’t...
NBC News—Drake pulls 'Taylor Made Freestyle' after Tupac estate threatens action for apparent use of AI voice. Drake's diss track "Taylor Made Freestyle" has been removed from his X and Instagram accounts, days after Tupac Shakur's estate threatened to sue him for appearing to use an artificial intelligence-generated version of the late rapper’s voice. In a cease-and-desist letter sent on Wednesday, Howard King, an attorney who represents Shakur’s estate, requested that Drake remove the track from all platforms where it is publicly available. The letter warned that Drake’s nonconsensual use of Shakur’s...
@HipHopWired—Tupac Shakur’s Estate Threatens Drake With Legal Action, Gives The Rapper 24 Hours To Take Down “Taylor Made Freestyle”. Source: L. Busacca / Getty / Tupac Shakur Drake’s clever attempt at a Kendrick Lamar diss record could land him in legal hot water. Spotted on HuffPost, the Estate of the late iconic rapper Tupac Shakur is threatening Drake with legal action for using an AI-generated voice of Shakur. The Estate is giving the Canadian Hip-Hop star 24 hours to take down his latest Kendrick Lamar diss track, “Taylor Made Freestyle.” The track features AI-generated voices of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg urging their...