A virtual rapper named FN Meka powered by artificial intelligence has signed to a major label UPDATE: Dropped by label!

[THE 101]

Hip-hop is now in the world of Artificial Intelligence. A virtual rapper named FN Meka, which is powered by AI, has signed with a major label.

According to a Music Business Worldwide article, published last Wednesday (Aug. 17), the "robot rapper" FN Meka has signed a deal with Capitol Records and dropped his first single, "Florida Water," which features the RICO-indicted rapper Gunna and gaming streamer Clix.

The AI-powered virtual rapper was the creation of Anthony Martini and Brandon Le of Factory New, a virtual record label who were the first to "sign" the robot rapper. According to Martini, the rapper's voice is a real human but everything else is based off of AI technology.

"Technically speaking, FN Meka is voiced by a human," he told MBW. "But everything else about him—from his lyrics to the chords and tempo underpinning his music—is based on AI."

FN Meka’s fanbase is huge on social media. In just over a year, since his creation, he already has amassed 10 million followers on TikTok and over a billion views on the video-sharing platform.

On his TikTok page, Meka invites fans into his virtual world that includes jumbo Bugatti jets, Maybach helicopters and machines that can turn ice into iced-out watches.

On the Turbo-produced song "Florida Water," Meka delivers flossy lines like, "Oh, just put on my tab/I don't see the prices, throw it in my bag/Always in a foreign when I dash/Clean water VVS diamonds bust down/Make it splash."

Ryan Ruden, Capitol Music Group’s Executive Vice President of Experiential Marketing & Business Development, views the partnership with FN Meka as the future of music merging with technology. "[It] meets at the intersection of music, technology and gaming culture," he told MBW. "It's just a preview of what’s to come."

It will be interesting to see if real-life hip-hop fans will embrace the virtual rapper FN Meka.

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[THE 101]

 

[Matt504]

"I don't see no nikkas like we playing hockey"



this might be what it takes to test the "it's just entertainment" rhetoric

 

[Reptile]

Mayne what the fukk is this?

 

[Womb Raider]

This is what happens when you nikkaS let any and everybody in the cookout…I hope y’all happy with yaselves

 

[JoelB]

them Lil Pump meme rappers better get they money while they can. I thought something like this would happen when I saw Travis do his virtual concert in Fortnight.

Labels about to create recyclable meme artists...sell merchandise/nft's/dances and cut out the artists.

Lyor Cohen mad he aint think of this first

 

[Wargames]

I don’t know how I feel about a cartoon rapper using the N-word?


Did a white boy from MIT write that lyric? Did a white boy code it?

We all know only white people profitting from this

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Literally identical to 6ix9ne

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Gunna,Drama,Turbo


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[thaKEAF]

 

[RhymesWell]

I don’t know how I feel about a cartoon rapper using the N-word?


Did a white boy from MIT write that lyric? Did a white boy code it?

We all know only white people profitting from this

Exactly how I felt when I heard them N's start flying in that clip. Only people that's gonna be banging this music is CACs so why tf they got it saying nikka for?

 

[Low End Derrick]

 

[Greenhornet]

im gonna give it a virus and kill it

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Literally identical to 6ix9ne

I think thats him

 

[GollyImGully]

moonwalking with a shotty in the lobby