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A.I. Indie · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  AI AI. That you've been hearing all about it, you're wondering what is
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  it. I can tell you this much. We're not talking about Alan Iverson,
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  but we're talking about artificial intelligence, in particular as it relates to audio.
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  Now. I'm not going to go through the whole spell. There's enough
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  coverage around from other hip hop programs to tech sites and all kinds of things
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  that can share a little bit more light on what the whole fascination with AI
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  is. But I could sum it up for you. It's a shortcut.
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  It's a hell of a shortcut, and not only as it relates to what
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  I'm going to talk about, which is music, but also as it relates
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  to the production of podcasts. And audio content. Here's an example I could
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  have and maybe I'll do it sometime in the future, but I could have
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  entered in what I wanted to talk about for this podcast into an AI engine
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  of some sort, right, I want to talk about AI and podcasting,
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  and gave it a little couple of parameters, then used another AI software to
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  put my voice in along with whatever the previous AI generated. As far as
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  the text for my podcasts, have it, spit it out and put my
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  intro to it in while I there you go, that was AI, ladies
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  and gentlemen. Okay, no it wasn't all right, I'm lying, but
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  I'm just saying. I'm saying that's what you could do. So you could
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  honestly put together your own podcast today. Not know much about a subject,
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  ask the AI to create a podcast, or even because some people have some
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  students have done this with their papers, but on any subject related to whatever
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  your podcast is, connect your voice via different podcast and you have it.
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  And when I say timesaver, I mean it doesn't take the time it takes.
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  It doesn't take the time it takes to sit here and voice the podcast,
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  right, It doesn't take the time it takes the research production could be
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  cut down if you know how to produce on some level. You still need
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  to know how to produce in some ways or not that much. So as
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  a content creator, you could become a podcaster today using AI, but you
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  can also become a rapper. Now all of the conversation from the music sites
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  to the hip hop sites have been around, uh you know AI versions of
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  jay Z that sound real. I heard Biggie in Tupac rapping two and Words
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  in Paris, right, and it sounds legit. The Biggie really sound legit
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  because he has a very distinctive voice right is deep. He's sounds like he's
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  struggling to breathe sometimes. All of that cadence was there. That's what makes
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  it scary, Right. But yet he's wrapping jay Z's lyrics from the original
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  song same way. It's scary. Right, there's a Drake and the Weekend
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  record, There's there's all kinds of versions. People are just coming up.
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  What I did is right now. I'm not going to talk about the status
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  of that because I think there is a portion of this no one has talked
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  about. Right, The status of that with the major artists is going down
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  a rabbit hole of likeness, copyright and right now, really they can't do
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  anything about it because only a human, I mean aire, artificial intelligence can't
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  infringe upon your your likeness and your image and your voicing the copyright because only
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  a human can for the So it's a free fall at this point, and
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  it's gonna end up bad for someone who choose to monetize. Someone dropped an
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  entire mixtape of Drake like songs featuring Drake's voice. That's crazy, right,
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  I saw other rappers say, but we could get the Biggie album, we
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  always want it. We can continue to get Tupac albums. Man, listen,
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  that is a rabbit hole that gets crazy. And I'll just say this,
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  I don't think any of that's gonna happen unless sanctioned by the estates of
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  those who passed away. I'm just saying it's just not now. I will
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  say this AI. Indeed, it's a whole another story. If you love
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  hip hop, loved it to death, can't DJ, can't break down,
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  can't rap or wish that at some point you could be a rapper, Well
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  you probably can, because what's to stop you from saying put together? You
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  know, a gangster rap song in the style of ice Cube, right,
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  and they do that, right, So it's in the style of ice Cube.
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  No voice yet, it's just written. It's spitted out text wise in
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  the style of ice Cube. And then you go over to the AI voice
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  software, but instead of adding ice Cub's voice, you add your voice and
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  now you have a song. Right now, Obviously you have to give the
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  AI some references of your voice, but who wouldn't do that? How much
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  work is that for you? Right? You could literally say I want to
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  do you know, a whole album kind of like this. With these different
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  styles, the creative window is open for you to do what you want,
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  how you want on these records and begin in What's even crazier. What's even
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  crazier is if you always wanted to be a rapper, right, and you
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  put out this album, even if you don't tell anybody it's AI Generator,
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  right, how would they know you're relatively unknown? It's different when it's Drake.
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  You know, Drake said he didn't make that. You don't have to
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  tell anyone, right, and you could just literally drop this album. It
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  could do whatever is gonna do, right, Obviously he needs some beats,
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  but it could do whatever it's gonna do. Let's just say you blow up
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  and now you memorize these songs because they're you right there. You they're in
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  your voice. You go and perform them. You can be a rap star
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  overnight. Now that's the ceiling. Or you could just have a bunch of
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  indie stuff that's just yours to listen to. Like most people who write their
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  own rats. But it opens up an interesting and scary state of affairs when
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  it comes to rap. No more will it be about ghostwriting. Ghostwriter has
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  gotta be shuted. I gotta be shuted. This their job, right,
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  this is their job. It's gonna get sticky. Imagine me having a ghostwritingfore
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  a song, right and instead of using him again, well, I'll just
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  say, hey, write a song in the style of you know this hit
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  record that he gave me, and I give my producer to put a beat
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  on it. I only him, But does he still get a cut because
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  you're still using his original words? You see what I'm saying. It is
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  a rabbit hole that gets crazy. But speaking specifically to the indie rappers and
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  hip hop in general, well, it's going to cause a huge debate,
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  a huge debate when you think about it, because originality has always been a
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  pillar in hip hop. Now we know ghostwriters have existed since the beginning of
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  the hip hop do not get it to a state bars it has it just
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  has now have ghostwriters dominated the majority of the music we hear? Now we
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  like these artists for a reason. We call some of these artists legends for
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  a reason. They wrote most of the music that made them what they were.
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  You know, somebody like an L Cool J, if he didn't write
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  something a versus two or a song here and there that's coming out today,
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  I'm not as mad as it at it because the man been around forever.
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  There was a time where it was all him. Right, most rappers,
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  especially at this fifty years of hip hop at this standpoint, or dealing with
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  that kind of situation, you know, somebody ghost wrote something if they have
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  it, which I think Kendrick is probably a perfect example. Then it's the
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  reason why he doesn't drop best often as he does. It is because he's
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  a writer. He needs time. But when you got AI, you get
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  easily bypass any of it. How could a hip hop you know his story
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  and you know what do you what do you call the police. It's just
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  calling with the hip hop police. Respect you. If AI wrote all your
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  raps, if you didn't write anything, you just memorize what AI is.
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  Ai is the ghost writer of the future. It just is. But it's
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  more interesting to me to talk about those who don't have record deals, who
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  can't rap, who you know, maybe used to wrap and still want to
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  rap, but I don't really have the time to put in that work.
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  I mean you could literally, I could literally write. Now, just start
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  dumping ideas into a machine, writing the style of this, writing, the
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  style of that, writing, the style of this, until I have maybe
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  a good ten songs. Then put my voice in this other software. And
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  now I got my vocals, and I got hooks, and I got everything
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  else right, the cadence, everything is there, and then I just get
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  the beats beats to go with it. DN It's not that difficult, But
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  is it real? Hip hop? Will we lose something about hip hop as
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  a result of this easy route it? We've already reached the point now where
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  everybody raps, at least it feels that way. But now everybody can rap.
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  I'm a fan and this ain't AI piece.