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Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac
Drake may have to pull “Taylor Made” to avoid Tupac’s lawyers.
In a statement about Drake’s creation of “Taylor Made,” litigator Howard King called the song a “blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time” and said the Shakur estate never cleared the use of Tupac’s voice. For the past few weeks, a number of rap artists, including Lamar, Drake, and J. Cole, have been pointedly attacking one another(and entertaining everybody else) through their music after years of simmering tensions over — among other things — who’s the biggest in the game. The entire situation might seem silly from a distance, but “Taylor Made” is one of the bigger examples of what’s coming out of the AI-generated music boom that’s flooded social media and raised questions about how record labels plan to respond.
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