During the last hours a direct threat came to light from the legal team of Tupac against the popular contemporary singer drake for one of his latest releases.
The renowned Canadian artist premiered Taylor Made Freestylesurprising his fans and rap lovers by collaboration with Snoop Dogg and 2Pac himself.
However, everything seems to indicate that the ‘participation’ of the late rapper It wasn’t very well thought out. and they were not seen legal aspects what could be behind the use of your voice.
Furthermore, it should be mentioned that for the song no known themes were used from the New Yorker nor available on platforms, but they went a step further to achieve a certain ‘originality’.
Specifically, Drake and his team chose to use artificial intelligence to generate speech of the late rap icon, clearly without authorization. This gave a lot to talk about and generated divided opinions among his fans.
Likewise, it must be taken into account that the use of this tool is not very well regarded within the music industry and has generated more than one controversy, so in this particular case it ignites the discussion much more.
Faced with this, a legal representative of Tupac Shakur and his family sent a notification to Drake requesting cease and desist of the use of the voice of his client without prior agreement.
In any case, as stated Billboardfrom your part They would never have authorized this form to include ‘Pac’ in a song. Thus, “in order to safeguard the integrity of Tupac’s legacy, request the immediate withdrawal of the topic”.
Otherwise, if you do not comply within a certain period of timethreaten to go directly to legal actiontaking the case to judicial levels.
