<p>FN Meka – a musical artist who is powered using artificial intelligence – has been causing a stir online after he <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/artificial-intelligence-powered-rapper-signs-to-major-label-news.156696.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nabbed a coveted recording deal with Capitol Records</a>. The rapper has amassed over 10M followers on TikTok, and already collaborated with <a href="/tags/gunna" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Gunna</a> on its first single, &#8220;Florida Water.&#8221;</p>
<p>While Meka clearly has an abundance of fans on social media, much of the world has yet to make up its mind as to how they feel about the AI-powered creative.</p>
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<p>Name one rapper that has a hibachi Rolls Royce like me 🤔</p>
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<p>Back in 2021, co-creator Anthony Martini explained to <em>Music Business Worldwide</em> in an interview that he and his Factory New partner Brandon Le think that traditional A&amp;R is &#8220;inefficient and unreliable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We’ve developed a proprietary AI technology that analyzes certain popular songs of a specified genre and generates recommendations for the various elements of song construction: lyrical content, chords, melody, tempo, sounds, etc.,&#8221; he explained last year. &#8220;We then combine these elements to create the song.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the time, Martini noted that &#8220;a human voice performs the vocals, but we are working towards the ability to have a computer come up with and perform its own words – and even collaborate with other computers as &#8216;co-writers.'&#8221;</p>
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<p>One of the primary reasons FN Meka is facing so much criticism coincides with the raising number of Black creators venting about the lack of credit they&#8217;ve received for their work and the trends inspired by them, as well as the growing number of rappers being criticized for their lyrics both in and out of the courtroom.</p>
<p>Speaking to <em>The Daily Beast</em> in 2021, Martini compared his creation to another popular artist, saying, &#8220;You could look at a guy like Marshmello – he’s not real for all intents and purposes either. He could be a digital being too and it wouldn’t make a difference to the fans of the music.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re trying to blur those lines even more and trying to bring everyone to the future.&#8221;</p>
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