The estate of deceased rapper Tupac Shakur has threatened singer Drake with a lawsuit for a recent Kendrick Lamar diss track that allegedly uses an AI-generated voice mimicking the rapper.
Released on his Instagram last Friday, the new Drake song “Taylor Made Freestyle” reportedly used “AI software to generate verses emulating both Shakur and Snoop Dogg,” according to NBC News.
“In a cease-and-desist letter Wednesday, Howard King, an attorney who represents Shakur’s estate, requested that Drake remove the track from all platforms where it is publicly available,” noted the outlet.
“Drake, whose legal name is Aubrey Drake Graham, has until noon Thursday to confirm his cooperation. Otherwise, the estate will ‘pursue all of its legal remedies’ against him, according to the letter, a
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