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Virtual rapper FN Meka has signed with Capital Records.
AI — Black robot rapper FN Meka, an artificial intelligence-powered TikTok star, has been fired by record label Capitol Records after he was accused of spreading racist stereotypes about black people.
It was the American activist group Industry Blackout who, after a social media campaign on Tuesday, August 23, wrote to Capitol Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music, a letter condemning FN Meka as “a direct insult to the black community and (its culture”).
Having “signed” a contract ten days ago, the virtual rapper, an artificial intelligence creation, is no longer part of the record company as of Wednesday, August 24, which “severed its ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately,” according to a statement from Capitol Music Group.
“We offer our deepest apologies to the black community for our insensitivity to participating in this project without questioning its integrity and creativity,” the record company said in a statement obtained by AFP.
Industry Blackout denounced the “mixture of gross stereotypes, (cultural) appropriations of black artists and insults contained in the lyrics”.
FN Meka, in particular, is accused of using the famous “N-word” in English, a word that has become unpronounceable in the United States due to its racist, offensive, and offensive nature towards black people.
On social media, the digital image also shows a robot — a black cyborg with a tattooed face and a half-shaven head — being clubbed to the ground by an avatar of a white American police officer.
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The robot rapper doesn’t technically sing—a real anonymous black artist sings—but the music is generated by artificial intelligence.
However, FN Meka maintains their TikTok account with over 10 million followers and over a billion views on their videos.
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