At some point, every person who works in the music industry has to grapple with the fact that its not-all-that-distant past is rooted in racism and financial exploitation. Capitol Records is no ...
So much for the future of the arts, and music in particular – at least for the time being. Capitol Records, one of the biggest record labels on the market, just dropped the world’s first “robot rapper ...
Today in “of course, this happened,” AI rapper FN Meka made history by becoming the first robot rapper fired by its record company for racist lyrics. The cartoon rapper powered by artificial ...
Artificial intelligence rapper FN Meka has been dropped from Capitol Records. The virtual rapper was not received well, even though he has 10 million followers on TikTok. FN Meka looks racially ...
The “Black community? was about to tear a hole into Capitol Music Group. I saw the writing on the wall. The crazy part is there it look like it was ago. FN Meka was an artificial intelligence rapper, ...
It only could have ended this way. On Tuesday, August 23, I began kicking around ideas for an op-ed on FN Meka, the virtual-reality rapper created by Factory Now who has drawn attention for the use of ...
FN Meka was dropped by Capitol Records days after they’d made him the “world’s first” AI rapper to sign to a major label, following controversy over his use of the N word and for making light of ...
When Capitol Records announced that they had signed their first-ever AI Hip Hop artist in mid-August, it seemed like the natural next step in the industry's integration into the Metaverse. Completely ...
Rapper FN Meka is certainly a product of his times. He drives a gold-plated Rolls-Royce, a Gucci-print Tesla truck, and a slime green Lamborghini. On TikTok, where he has racked up 9 million followers ...
The announcement of FN Meka's record deal hasn't been without its own controversy. People have shown opposition to the "rapper" using the N-word on his previous tracks including "Moonwalkin" from 2019 ...
FN Meka was a debacle from the time the digitally-created “rapper” was rolled out to the masses and the controversy that ensued eventually lead to a dissolved record deal with Capitol Records. It has ...