Sheryl Crow has strongly criticized Drake for using AI -generated Tupac Shakur vocals in one of his Kendrick Lamar diss tracks. In April, Drake released the song “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which included barbs aimed at both Taylor Swift and Lamar. It featured AI versions of Lamar’s West Coast rap idols, Tupac and Snoop Dogg .
A week after its release, the “Hotline Bling” rapper took down the song after Tupac’s estate threatened to sue him. In a recent interview with the BBC , Crow, 62, condemned the use of AI to recreate the vocals of dead artists. “You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” she said.
“I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do it, but I’ll say sorry later.’ But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down. “It’s hateful,” she added.
“It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.” Drake has been involved in a longstanding feud with rapper Lamar for years . In March, Lamar took aim at Drake and fellow rap rival J Cole in his song “Like That,” claiming that rather than representing the genre’s “big three” it’s just “big me.
” A few diss tracks later, Drake responded with “Taylor Made Freestyle.” Shortly after its release, litigator Howard King sent Drake a cease-and-desist letter, telling him that he had 24 hours to take down the song or the estate would “pursue all of its legal remedies” against him. “The Estate.
