The White Creator Of AI-Controlled Rapper FN Meka That Repeatedly Uses The N-Word In Lyrics Speaks Out On His Capitol Records-Signed Design

[staticshock]

If y’all so mad about that word then stop fukkin saying it!

Never hear any jews call each other kike, Hispanics call each other beaner or wetback, etc

 

[prime]

If y’all so mad about that word then stop fukkin saying it!

Never hear any jews call each other kike, Hispanics call each other beaner or wetback, etc

Can’t speak for Jews but Mexicans definitely call each other beaner especially Gen z

 

[3rdWorld]

Capitol Records Severs Ties With A.I. Rapper FN Meka, Apologizes to Black Community for “Insensitivity”​

J. Clara Chan
Tue, August 23, 2022 at 6:07 PM·2 min read

Capitol Music Group on Tuesday said it had “severed ties” with the A.I. rapper FN Meka after facing pushback from activist groups and observers that the virtual rapper was a stereotypical caricature of Black artists.
“CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately,” a Capitol Music Group spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. “We offer our deepest apologies to the Black community for our insensitivity in signing this project without asking enough questions about equity and the creative process behind it. We thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days — your input was invaluable as we came to the decision to end our association with the project.”
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Earlier this month, Capitol Records announced it had signed FN Meka and was releasing a single, “Florida Water,” with the artist Gunna and the gaming streamer Cody “Clix” Conrad. The signing marked Capitol Records’ first major deal with a virtual artist, which was co-created by Anthony Martini and Brandon Le, who are behind the company Factory New, which specializes in creating virtual music artists.
But in an open letter shared earlier on Tuesday, the activist group Industry Blackout — which represents a group of Black industry professionals — described the FN Meka project as being a “direct insult to the Black community and our culture” by being an “amalgamation of gross stereotypes [and] appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics.”
The group called on Capitol Records to cut ties with the FN Meka project, issue a public apology and redirect all money spent by Capitol Records and Factory New on FN Meka toward organizations supporting Black youth in the arts and toward marketing Black artists signed with Capitol Records.
As of Tuesday afternoon, FN Meka’s artist page on the Capitol Records website — as well as the initial press release announcing the virtual rapper’s signing — have been taken down. A CMG spokesperson also confirmed to THR that the “Florida Water” single, which was released on the Capitol Records label, has been removed from all streaming platforms.

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[3rdWorld]

Black music, if you're old enough to remember..there was a time most white people acted like listener's and fans with no actual involvement in the music.

When whites started seeing the economic potential they got their hands involved and Black music was killed.
Black music became another fad they could fukk with for 2mins, desecrate and b*stardize for their own profit and politics.

 

[VertigoKnight]

There you go. When people apply that pressure you get results. Gunna and his people should be ashamed even being involved with that thing.

They'll try again, no doubt. But this is a good result.

 

[3rdWorld]

There you go. When people apply that pressure you get results. Gunna and his people should be ashamed even being involved with that thing.

They'll try again, no doubt. But this is a good result.

c00ns struggle to articulate their bullshyt when pressed publicly..hence why they like to do their sneaky shyt discreetly so they dont have to explain themselves. Gunna is a c00n, and so are most rappers from Atl. Them dudes have zero Black pride. Goodie Mob the last I can remember from that area whom had some measure of sense, decency and pride and they were active over a decade ago..

 

[Dr. Acula]

[/QUOTE]

Black music, if you're old enough to remember..there was a time most white people acted like listener's and fans with no actual involvement in the music.

When whites started seeing the economic potential they got their hands involved and Black music was killed.
Black music became another fad they could fukk with for 2mins, desecrate and b*stardize for their own profit and politics.

Part of the problem is that I think black folks don't maintain their arts in the long term as far as being long time fans. Our OGs are out here struggling while mediocre white one foot in the grave rock stars from the 60s can still sell out stadiums with 200 dollar a ticket entry to fans who stuck with them in the beginning..

Jazz is the perfect example. Black folks are still involved heavily as far as artists. But I notice that a lot of attempts to mainstream it again and keep it alive are being headed by white folks now. These white folks doing it aren't bad either. Tom Misch and some group called Haitus Kaiyote come to mind.



Also the fans at a lot of Jazz concerts are white as hell and of all ages. But a lot of the black fans are going to be older while the younger folks are no where near it.

 

[3rdWorld]

Part of the problem is that I think black folks don't maintain their arts in the long term as far as being long time fans. Our OGs are out here struggling while mediocre white one foot in the grave rock stars from the 60s can still sell out stadiums with 200 dollar a ticket entry to fans who stuck with them in the beginning..

Jazz is the perfect example. Black folks are still involved heavily as far as artists. But I notice that a lot of attempts to mainstream it again and keep it alive are being headed by white folks now. These white folks doing it aren't bad either. Tom Misch and some group called Haitus Kaiyote come to mind.



Also the fans at a lot of Jazz concerts are white as hell and of all ages. But a lot of the black fans are going to be older while the younger folks are no where near it.

Black people's vast creativity and non stagnation is a double-edged sword.

For one, its the reason why all forms of music were created by Black people and secondly why Black folks can easily move on and appear to abandon art.

 

[Black Mamba]

There you go. When people apply that pressure you get results. Gunna and his people should be ashamed even being involved with that thing.

They'll try again, no doubt. But this is a good result.

Ya that nikka Gunna can do like 4-5 yrs in jail for that shyt for all I care
He had a good verse on that Fewtcha album

 

[DaddyFresh]

Ya that nikka Gunna can do like 4-5 yrs in jail for that shyt for all I care
He had a good verse on that Fewtcha album

Gunna makes the same caricature music. Him being a part of this is very on brand

 

[jay83]

Unfortunately our leaders the past 30 years have been rappers and athletes because it’s the quickest way to get money, status, and some power in the community. People with the most money usually are the leaders and shakers. The problem is most rappers and entertainers are fairly young and aren’t as involved heavily in politics and speaking for the community.

So they interview snoop, or whoever else and they don’t care about a standard to uphold. When you watch interviews of black leaders in the 60s there was a sense of a standard of how you carried yourself. Now we got dudes who drop the n word every 5 seconds, overweight, no backbone, can’t articulate shyt. Collectively we need to seperate ourselves from entertainer images to business and politically minded.

 

[Conan]

Gunna makes the same caricature music. Him being a part of this is very on brand

Exactly.

This is what people are missing with the FN Meka. The vast majority of AI models and applications are trained or taught on existing data. The algorithm behind the FN Meta caricature grabbed all the best (or worst, depending on who you're speaking to) things about popular rap today and combined it into the abomination that is FN Meka. If you trained FN Meka on strictly 90s East Coast music you'd probably see a hybrid of Biggie and Wu-Tang as the result.

If you're mad at FN Meka, why not aim your anger as well towards the garbage music that he was fed on? There was a tweet above that bemoaned the incarceration of Gunna... His music quality isn't far off FN Meka's ... Do you think there was any music of OutKast or Goodie Mob or UGK in the training set??

 

[Sindicated]

It's always amusing when people act surprised about things like this. I wish people could get it through their thick skulls: THE N WORD HAS BECOME A GLOBAL PHENOMENON USED BY PEOPLE OF ALL RACES BECAUSE IT WAS GLAMORIZED IN RAP MUSIC FOR THE PAST 30 OR SO YEARS.

As a result, kids in some town in Denmark likely use it with their friends because it's "cool". Asians, Latinos, whoever use it amongst themselves and around their accepting black friends because they've been given "permission" by the "culture". These same people, of course, wouldn't really go for it if people "term of endearment"ed their slurs.

But hey, black people are the coolest, and we set the trends so just sit back, relax and accept it because it's not going away.

This is something that is our fault and it’s too late to turn back

And the sad thing as upset as we may be, we have no actual control so we can’t stop/change this. I had the weird experience of seeing a sea of whites saying the “n word” at rap concerts and I was so bothered…but the men on stage weren’t bothered by a thing, so what I thought certainly didn’t matter.

It is what it is at this point. The elders tried to stop this mess back in the day when hiphop was getting more popular/powerful and the young people back then (Gen X ?) didn’t get it.

yall sound retarded as hell just cuz a rapper who i dont know and will never meet uses the N Word it gives everyone regardless of race an out to use the N Word?

They got Asian rappers who joke about being a chink, they have mexican rappers who choke about being a wetback so since they do it I guess its cool for us to go around calling them chinks and wetbacks?

Just say yall dont have a backbone and will let a Non Black person call you a nikka or use it in your space.

Contrary to popular belief its the regular folks like yall who let people use the word around you that makes them feel comfortable.

 

[Bar Razor]

yall sound retarded as hell just cuz a rapper who i dont know and will never meet uses the N Word it gives everyone regardless of race an out to use the N Word?

They got Asian rappers who joke about being a chink, they have mexican rappers who choke about being a wetback so since they do it I guess its cool for us to go around calling them chinks and wetbacks?

Just say yall dont have a backbone and will let a Non Black person call you a nikka or use it in your space.

Contrary to popular belief its the regular folks like yall who let people use the word around you that makes them feel comfortable.

Reading comprehension is something so many people unfortunately lack. Also critical thinking skills.

 

[Unknown Poster]

There you go. When people apply that pressure you get results. Gunna and his people should be ashamed even being involved with that thing.

They'll try again, no doubt. But this is a good result.

It was up to the real hip-hop community to shut this bullsh!t down!

And yes we did!