{"id":1618796,"date":"2022-08-22T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618796"},"modified":"2022-08-22T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:47:11","slug":"virtual-robot-rapper-gets-signed-to-major-label-boasts-millions-of-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virtual-robot-rapper-gets-signed-to-major-label-boasts-millions-of-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual \u2018Robot Rapper\u2019 Gets Signed To Major Label, Boasts Millions Of Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirtual-robot-rapper-gets-signed-to-major-label-boasts-millions-of-fans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a>-powered\u00a0rap star named FN Meka just got signed to a major record label, proving there\u2019s a formula to making music that sells.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/fn-meka-virtual-rapper-signs-major-label\/\">Music Business Worldwide (MBW)<\/a>, the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rap-music\">robot rapper<\/a>\u201d now has a contract with Capitol Records and boasts a following of 10 million followers and more than one billion views on his TikTok account. FN Meka does have a human voice, but the rest of the artist\u2019s persona is computer generated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnically speaking, FN Meka is voiced by a human,\u201d creators Anthony Martini and Brandon Le told the publication. \u201cBut everything else about him \u2014 from his lyrics to the chords and tempo underpinning his music \u2014 is based on AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FN Meka even has an image that\u2019s similar to other contemporary artists. The official TikTok touts an extravagant lifestyle full of fancy private jets, luxury cars, and watches dripping in diamonds.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is what FN Meka\u2019s music sounds like<\/p>\n<p>The AI rapper has over 10 million followers on TikTok<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kc7jad352v\">pic.twitter.com\/kc7jad352v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XXL Magazine (@XXL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XXL\/status\/1561393363789570048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI-generated artist just released his first single, \u201cFlorida Water,\u201d featuring popular rapper Gunna and pro gaming streamer Clix, per MBW. The track was produced by Turbo and executive produced by DJ Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Capitol Music Group\u2019s Executive Vice President of Experiential Marketing &#038; Business Development told MBW that this new endeavor \u201cmeets at the intersection of music, technology and gaming culture\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s just a preview of what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/this-robot-rapper-has-9-million-followers-on-tiktok-his-creator-thinks-traditional-ar-is-inefficient-and-unreliable\/\">MBW<\/a>, Martini said last year that they created the artist and music implementing a formula using \u201cproprietary AI technology that analyzes certain popular songs of a specified genre and generates recommendations for the various elements of song construction: lyrical content, chords, melody, tempo, sounds, etc. [They] then combine these elements to create the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, a human voice performs the vocals, but we are working towards the ability to have a computer come up with and perform its own words \u2014 and even collaborate with other computers as \u2018co-writers,\u2019\u201d the entrepreneur explained.<\/p>\n<p>He also defended the new method of creating hit music. \u201cThe old model of finding talent is inefficient and unreliable,\u201d Martini said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt requires spending time scouring the internet, traveling to shows, flying to meetings, expending resources all in search of the magic combination of qualities that just might translate into a superstar act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With AI stars, industry pros get what they need when they need it, plus they control the rights to the music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial intelligence-powered\u00a0rap star named FN Meka just got signed to a major record label, proving there\u2019s a formula to making music that sells. According to Music Business Worldwide (MBW), the so-called \u201crobot rapper\u201d now has a contract with Capitol Records and boasts a following of 10 million followers and more than one billion views &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}