While
Drake’s
fans
have
been
having
a
ball
with
the
Canadian
rapper’s
recently
released
track
dissing
fellow
rapper
Kendrick
Lamar,
the
legal
team
representing
Tupac
Shakur
is
threatening
to
take
legal
action
if
the
song
isn’t
pulled
off
the
internet.
Billboard
reports
that
late
rapper
Tupac’s
legal
team
is
ready
to
take
Drake
to
court
over
the
release
of
“Taylor
Made,”
Drake’s
recently
released
song
featuring
the
AI-generated
voices
of
Shakur
and
Snoop
Dogg.
In
a
statement
about
Drake’s
creation
of
“Taylor
Made,”
litigator
Howard
King
called
the
song
a
“blatant
abuse
of
the
legacy
of
one
of
the
greatest
hip-hop
artists
of
all
time”
and
said
the
Shakur
estate
never
cleared
the
use
of
Tupac’s
voice.
“The
Estate
is
deeply
dismayed
and
disappointed
by
your
unauthorized
use
of
Tupac’s
voice
and
personality,”
King
said.
“The
Estate
would
never
have
given
its
approval
for
this
use.”
For
the
past
few
weeks,
a
number
of
rap
artists,
including
Lamar,
Drake,
and
J.
Cole,
have
been
pointedly
attacking
one
another
(and
entertaining
everybody
else)
through
their
music
after
years
of
simmering
tensions
over
—
among
other
things
—
who’s
the
biggest
in
the
game.
In
response
to
“Like
That,”
Future’s
recently
released
song
featuring
Lamar
in
which
he
calls
Drake
out
for
making
previous
jabs,
Drake
dropped
“Push
Ups,”
a
track
poking
fun
at
Lamar’s
height,
shoe
size,
and
the
details
of
his
old
deal
at
Top
Dawg
Entertainment.
Rather
than
waiting
for
a
response,
Drake
also
debuted
“Taylor
Made”
on
April
19th,
and
the
song
immediately
raised
eyebrows
—
less
so
for
its
reference
to
Taylor
Swift
and
more
so
for
its
prominent
use
of
voices
from
West
Coast
rappers
(one
of
whom
is
quite
dead)
who
did
not
seem
to
be
involved
in
any
of
the
ongoing
beef.
Following
the
release
of
“Taylor
Made,”
Snoop
uploaded
a
video
to
Instagram
with
an
assortment
of
emoji
seemingly
indicating
bemusement.
The
entire
situation
might
seem
silly
from
a
distance,
but
“Taylor
Made”
is
one
of
the
bigger
examples
of
what’s
coming
out
of
the
AI-generated
music
boom
that’s
flooded
social
media
and
raised
questions
about
how
record
labels
plan
to
respond.
Interestingly,
Drake
has
a
history
of
publicly
decrying
AI-generated
music
while
also
seeming
like
one
of
the
more
likely
sources
of
“Heart
on
My
Sleeve,”
the
viral,
AI-generated
song
attributed
to
anonymous
TikTok
user
ghostwriter977.
Tupac’s
estate
wants
“Taylor
Made”
pulled
within
24
hours,
and
if
Drake
made
the
song
without
their
permission,
we
might
just
see
it
disappear.
But
as
much
as
this
beef
has
been
about
garnering
attention,
Drake
could
be
very
willing
to
go
to
court
to
make
his
case.
(Originally posted by Charles Pulliam-Moore)
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