Article 6MAT6 Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac

Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac

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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...

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