Love Kendrick Lamar Audio

[Clinio Lofton]

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After I would record the voice memo, I would have to upload it to the audio trainer, then it generates and your vocal is ready to go with everything you recorded. From there, I would download the AI-generated vocal, cut out the pieces that I liked, and piece it together. Everything is line by line. It's not just one take all the way through.

I'm a Drake fan, too. I listen to Drake a lot, so I can tell from the pronunciation of some words. If you have a thick accent and you try to do the AI, the accent will show through. It will be a giveaway.

Why do you think people are skeptical about the validity of you making the track, despite breaking it down in your TikTok?

I think some people are team Drake, so they run with whatever narrative that the Drake team puts out. But I also think that maybe I didn't break it down enough. I did kind of run through the video because I had to make it a minute and 30 seconds. So it wasn't a super thorough breakdown. But even with the vocals isolated, that's not enough, because you have AI softwares that can break down stems and get an a capella. I feel like the strong supporting case would just be the beat and showing everybody my grid, because on modern producing softwares, when you play something on the keyboard, it has colored notes on the grid that you can actually see. AI doesn't do that, at least to my knowledge.

Are you concerned about the direction that AI is headed?

I wouldn't be surprised if maybe somebody was in on it, maybe a higher-up in the music industry. They want to make as much money as possible. So if they can make something that they can absolutely have 100% control over and make money off of it, I do believe they would push for it. Everything is a money game, but I don't see AI replacing the feel of a real human being. I always say that the marketplace is determined by the consumer. You could have a product, but if everybody refuses to buy it, your product won't sell. And as a businessman, it wouldn't be smart to go restock that product that people refuse to buy. So I just feel like if they were able to create a successful AI superstar and the consumers cling to it and love it and embrace multiple of it, then it would get bad. So I guess to know that answer, we would have to really watch the consumer, because that's what determines everything.

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