Drake's making amends with Tupac's estate, complying with the cease and desist demands it made after he used an AI Tupac voice on his diss track, "Taylor Made Freestyle." Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ Drake's team and representatives…
The megastar had been ordered to delete the track by the late rapper's estate for "abusing his legacy".
It was probably inevitable that, of all the really big names in rap and hip-hop, the first one who’d get seriously obnoxious with A.I was going to be Drake. (It was him or Kanye West, and West’s trajectory is so weird and out of step with modern tastes right now as to make the confluence unlikely). After all, A.I. is currently ubiquitous, deeply corny, and will probably conquer us all—so what better parallel for Drake’s music could there be? Now, though, the Canadian Degrassi alum finds himself...
LAS VEGAS >> The defense attorney representing a former Los Angeles-area gang leader accused of killing hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas said Tuesday his client’s accounts of the killing are fiction and prosecutors lack key evidence to obtain a murder conviction.
When we said "channel the spirit of Tupac", this is not what we meant Aubrey.In the latest saga of the current hip-hop Civil War, featuring Drake and Kendrick
Duane “Keefe D” Davis, the accused mastermind behind the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur, has announced that he will not be taking the stand to testify in his own defense. This decision comes despite a long-hidden confession from Davis concerning the infamous 1996 murder being submitted into evidence at his trial. As reported by […] The post Gangster Duane “Keefe D” Davis Refuses to Testify in Tupac Murder Trial first appeared on The Source.
Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened legal action over Drake’s use of AI-generated vocals impersonating the later rapper
Following a cease-and-desist letter issued to Drake, the Canadian superstar has removed the “Taylor Made Freestyle” diss track directed at Kendrick Lamar. Originally posted on Instagram, the single used an AI-generated Tupac voice to provoke Lamar. According to Billboard, the estate threatened to sue and stated the voice was “a flagrant violation” and “blatant use” […] The post Drake Removes “Taylor Made Freestyle” from Online After Cease-and-Desist Letter from Tupac Estate first appeared on The...
Tupac Shakur’s estate is none too happy about Drake cloning the late hip-hop legend’s voice in a Kendrick Lamar diss track. Billboard reported Wednesday that attorney Howard King, representing Mr. Shakur’s estate, sent a cease-and-desist letter calling Drake’s use of Shakur’s voice “a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights.” Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) dropped the diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” last Friday, the latest chapter of the artist’s simmering...
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...
The legal team is poised to challenge Drake's actions in court if the song remains accessible online.
In a cease-and-desist letter, the estate says it would ‘never have given its approval’ for Drake to make the song