Drake replicated the voices of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg using AI

On Saturday, Drake officially released the track Push Ups in response to Kendrick Lamar's diss in Like That, one of the standout songs from the album by Metro Boomin and Future titled We Don't Trust You. Impatient for K-Dot's response, who in Like That likened himself to Prince (an artist who in his music career has surpassed Michael Jackson in terms of musical achievements), Champagne Papi has launched another provocation by releasing Taylor Made Freestyle. This piece, not available on traditional streaming platforms but shared exclusively on social networks, opens with voices of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg, while a third verse is performed by Drake himself—without any AI vocal manipulation, of course. In the first verse, AI 2Pac urges Kendrick Lamar to respond to Drake. «Kendrick, we need you, the West Coast savior / Engraving your name in hip-hop history,» he continues, «Fuck this Canadian lightskin, Dot / We need a no-debated win West Coast victory, man.» This isn't the first time 2Pac's voice has been used in a musical track; to create the closing piece of Kendrick Lamar's iconic album To Pimp a Butterfly, titled Mortal Man, Lamar used archive recordings of 2Pac to simulate a conversation with the deceased artist from 1996. Meanwhile, after utilizing Snoop Dogg's voice, Drake has already received a response from Snoop, demonstrating little interest in the ongoing matter involving the two.

Moreover, to date, neither members of 2Pac's family nor Snoop Dogg himself have complained about Drake essentially instrumentalizing their voices using a much-debated technology like artificial intelligence, which often sparks ethical debates. Perhaps because there's no room for further controversies to add to the massive "civil war" that has most names in the US music scene lined up against Drake, starting from The Weeknd, through A$AP Rocky, J.Cole, Future, Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar, and now joined by Ye on the evening with the track Like That Remix—along with the already viral meme-dissing aimed at the Canadian. Drake himself seems unwilling to settle for the already oversized dimensions of this storm, as implied by the title of his latest diss track, randomly including the name of Taylor Swift. Analyzing the lines closely, Drake suggests Lamar is holding back his response due to the overwhelming hype surrounding Taylor Swift's latest album The Tortured Poets Department: «But now we gotta wait a fuckin' week 'cause Taylor Swift is your new Top,” poking ironic fun at Lamar's former record label, Top Dawg Entertainment. “And if you 'bout to drop, she gotta approve / This girl really 'bout to maker you acting like you ain't in a feud.»