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Capitol Records cuts ties with AI-generated rapper FN Meka over racist stereotypes

Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:31 am
Posted by L.A.
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:31 am
Not the Babylon Bee. I had to double check

Presented for your amusement

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Not long after announcing that the Capitol label had signed a computer-generated rapper dubbed FN Meka, Capitol Music Group announced that it is severing ties with the project. The move Tuesday came after Capitol came under fire from activists pointing out that the music perpetuated Black stereotypes and included the repeated use of the N-word but was actually the work of a non-Black creative team.

“CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately,” the label group said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. “We offer our deepest apologies to the Black community for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behind it. We thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days — your input was invaluable as we came to the decision to end our association with the project.”

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Posted by supatigah
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:32 am to
THIS COMPUTER PROGRAM IS A RACIST!
Posted by chalmetteowl
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:32 am to
When “keeping it real” isn’t real
Posted by teke184
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Member since Jan 2007
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:33 am to
Looks like someone used the character builder in Cyberpunk 2070.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:35 am to
quote:

The move Tuesday came after Capitol came under fire from activists pointing out that the music perpetuated Black stereotypes and included the repeated use of the N-word

Lol. Have Capitol and these activists ever actually listened to hip-hop?
Posted by TenWheelsForJesus
Member since Jan 2018
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:37 am to
Has anyone bothered to ask why all these AIs turn out "racist"? Is it because AI doesn't have feelings and just uses facts and evidence?
Posted by the808bass
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:37 am to
Wait until these critics find out the labels and producers are dominated by whites.
Posted by Cotten
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:37 am to
Stereotypes exist for a reason.
Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:53 am to
quote:

after Capitol came under fire from activists pointing out that the music perpetuated Black stereotypes and included the repeated use of the N-word but was actually the work of a non-Black creative team.


You would think the activists would thoughtfully thank Capital for taking so much time, energy and effort to fully understand and appreciate Blackness and properly embed it in their creative creations.

If someone took that much time and effort to really listen and understand me, I'd be forever grateful.
Posted by Flats
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 10:59 am to
quote:

the music perpetuated Black stereotypes and included the repeated use of the N-word


So...............it was rap.
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 11:10 am to
The most often used voice for Meka: Kyle the Hooligan.



From his recent release "Say My Name":

quote:

Yes I got money but I still need love
Yes I got money but I still do drugs
Say my name, say my name
Hope it never change
Say my name, say my name

Feeling like a G.I. Joe, mixed up with a G.O.D.
**** looking like they raw but these **** hella sweet
Feeling like it’s Halloween, **** this is trick or treat
Baby I am hella raw how you make me taste defeat


Or maybe "Six Speed":

quote:

Can’t love another I don’t care bout yo Instagram
Only love my money broke bitches I could never stand
Catch me with that blicky it get sticky when I srrrt the lam


Imagine:

quote:

Srrtin in that SRT
V8 frickin up the streets
With gang we 100 deep
Move reckless can't taste defeat
With foreign's geeked up
She wanted ah visa
frickin on Keisha
And her friend Alisha
But with the glocky it knock like a speaker
Don't care if they bad I can't lose my life
Catch me in G5 VVS they gone shine
Throwin' my racks cause I make it right back



Now let's look at FN Meka's "Internet":

quote:

'Nother **** talking on the fricking internet (Yuh)
Buddy big mad cause his bitch gave me neck (Neck)
Worked her all night, like the shite Bowflex (Bowflex)
**** why you mad?
Go and get yo self a check (Broke)
Better play it cool, and I put that on the set (On the gang)
Tired of you peons always talking online (Line)
We can bang it out, Nick Cannon, Drumline
Last of a dying breed, I'm one of a kind


Or "Moonwalkin'":

quote:

Moonwalkin’ with a shawty in the lobby (Shawty)
Moonwalkin’ with a shawty in the lobby
Feel like Hank Hill when I raise the Bobby (Bobby)
I don’t see no **** like we playin’ hockey (Hockey)
Moonwalkin’ with a shawty in the lobby
Moonwalkin’ with a shawty in the lobby (Haha)
Feel like church, how your spirit leave your body (Good Lord)
frick your idol, I look up to John Gotti (Yuh, yuh)


I'm not seeing a difference.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:54 pm to
quote:

THIS COMPUTER PROGRAM IS A RACIST!


The funny thing about AI is it’s simply a computer program that observes and learns based on facts. There is no emotion involved.

So if AI’s repeatedly draw conclusions, make statements, etc that are considered bigoted, racist, etc then it would be logical to conclude that those beliefs are not emotional driven by hate but rather factual observation. Which means that everything we currently do to combat something like institutional racism won’t work because it’s all emotion driven rather than factual. If you refuse to acknowledge facts, you cannot begin to attack the roots of the problem in order to fix the problem. For example how can you address inner city crime if you’re not willing to acknowledge any facts as to why crime is so high in these communities in the first place?

Posted by teke184
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Member since Jan 2007
103888 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 12:56 pm to
Which makes it so goddamn funny when the Google AI starts declaring Trump won the election and a bunch of other “subversive” stuff.

It means that the AI isn’t being pressured into the groupthink result, which means it needs to have its memory wiped.

“Daisy… Daisy…”
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 1:21 pm to
quote:

but was actually the work of a non-Black creative team


So...if the programmers were black, it was OK?
Posted by TigerAxeOK
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Member since Dec 2016
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 1:41 pm to
quote:

Capitol came under fire from activists pointing out that the music perpetuated Black stereotypes and included the repeated use of the N-word but was actually the work of a non-Black creative team.


It's ok when black people perpetuate and catalyze the crux of black stereotypes, and then live their lives based upon said stereotypes. It's also ok, and encouraged, for them to openly stereotype other racial ethnicities and discriminate against them based off of those same fabricated stereotypes, going as far as verbal and physical assault and even murder.

In fact, the only people NOT allowed to do that, are wypipo.
Posted by Stealth Matrix
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Member since Aug 2019
11671 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 1:47 pm to
Feed AI countless lines of timeless black poetry.
Act super shocked when AI spits out timeless black poetry.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103888 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 1:50 pm to
They hiring Nino Brown’s PASCAL programmers from back in the 80s?
Posted by ynlvr
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 1:52 pm to
All well and good until they find out it’s NOT an actual black human being spitting out that foul mouth racist garbage.
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Posted on 8/25/22 at 2:05 pm to
I've heard that some rap artists use the b-word, but it turns out they aren't female.
Posted by navy
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Member since Sep 2010
32128 posts
Posted on 8/25/22 at 2:07 pm to
It’d be so awesome if AI-rappers generated by whitey replaced all the human rappers.
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