Generative artificial intelligence is seeping deeper into our cultural fabric by the day. In just two years, AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti have evolved from poorly developed nightmare fuel to genuinely deceptive clips. And in the music industry, “AI artists” are garnering multimillion-dollar deals, charting, and being co-signed by music legends like Timbaland . Generative AI music programs like Suno have morphed hip-hop’s manifestations of the tech from novelty clips of “Jay-Z” rapping Ice Spice lyrics to polished, genre-switching remixes of classics like 50 Cent ’s “Many Men.”
While purists are pushing back against these artificial novelties, the rap legend told Complex ’s Jordan Rose he likes the remixes because they “reach someone that I missed… someone who couldn’