M.I.A. explains why artists like Cardi B are destroying the music industry: 'What is cool is Satan’s playground'
British rapper and record producer M.I.A. recently made an appearance on James Poulos’ “Zero Hour.” The duo broached a number of subjects, including the “Paper Planes” singer’s anti-Big Tech clothing line OHMNI, therapy addiction in the West, tyranny in the U.K., and, of course, the music industry.
On the latter subject, M.I.A. was candid about the decline of music due to the influence of Satanism and the AI programming that paves the path for it.
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“Where do you see music going? And do you think music is doing what it needs to be doing for us as human beings?” Poulos asked.
“Music is healing, and it can change a lot of people’s mood or vibe ... and I think it’s been hijacked because it became a business,” M.I.A. explained, adding that as an artist, “You have to put [your music] through the channel of an industry [where] it gets corrupted.”
“This is the image that has to be put with this song, and a girl has to look like this, and she has to do this dance,” she said, regurgitating what artists are told by producers and marketing personnel.
As a newer Christian, M.I.A. pointed to Satan as the root cause of the music industry’s degeneracy.
“Satan was the director of music, you know? It is a great tool to get to people because music directly accesses your spirit, so you bypass the mind and your soul and your logic,” she told Poulos. “There's a level of responsibility to practice when you make music and a level of knowledge you have to have.”
She explained that “what is cool” in our modern culture “is never that.”
“What is cool is Satan’s playground,” she remarked.
Unfortunately, artificial intelligence has also become integral to the music industry. While M.I.A. says that AI in and of itself is basically “a fun toy,” the programmers of AI are what’s problematic. Being keenly aware of what sells, these people design AI to essentially do Satan’s bidding.
She points to popular musicians Cardi B and Ice Spice – who are likely popular because they’re “skirting very close to porn” – as examples.
“It’s like merging Only Fans and the music industry is where we’re at,” she said, adding that this is why she’s “taking a time out.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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Why Hollywood should be 'VERY NERVOUS' about the Diddy scandal
Last week on September 17, Sean "Diddy" Combs, commonly known in the music industry as P. Diddy or Puff Daddy, was arrested and charged with a slew of crimes, including sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The rapper and producer is widely being referred to as the Epstein of Hollywood because, like Epstein, Diddy threw massive sex parties during which he forced guests to engage in sexual activities with prostitutes while being filmed.
Now that Diddy has been denied bail, other Hollywood stars are making suspicious moves, many of them going on a “social media scrubbing spree.”
“Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage and “Fearless” host Jason Whitlock discuss the situation.
Currently, Diddy is “locked up in a Brooklyn penitentiary where he reportedly was put on suicide watch,” says Jill.
Naturally, many are wondering whether or not Diddy will “wind up being Epsteined.”
The other big question is: Who are his co-conspirators? Like the mysterious Epstein list, certainly there are a number of elites on the list of those complicit in Diddy’s crimes, but who are they?
While no others have been arrested yet, “there are Hollywood heavyweights who are apparently spooked.”
One of those people is singer, rapper, and producer Usher, whose “posts vanished off X, only for him to make the excuse later that he was hacked.”
Another Hollywood star who scrubbed her social media accounts is punk singer P!nk. Apparently, several of her posts “were 86ed,” says Jill.
However, “one of the creepiest moments in the saga” actually occurred back in 2016 when Usher was on “The Howard Stern Show” and recounted his wild days living at Diddy’s.
When Usher was just 14, he was apparently sent off to “Puffy Flavor Camp” to “see the lifestyle.”
“There were very curious things taking place,” Usher said in the interview before listing specific celebrities he saw at Diddy’s infamous parties, including Biggie Smalls, Lil’ Kim, Craig Mack, Faith Evans, the band Jodeci, and Mary J. Blige, among others.
Jason has known that the rap music industry is corrupt to the core for decades now.
“It's been my argument for many years — and it's all come to fruition — that the music industry is satanic; it's a sex cult, and as it relates to hip-hop, its role is to instill, impart, make the culture more nihilistic, and Diddy is at the head of that,” he explains.
Now that Diddy has been officially arrested and charged, Jason says that “a lot of people should be nervous — a lot of Hollywood people, a lot of athletes, a lot of the A-list celebrities.”
Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson can’t help but be suspicious about the timing, however.
“Why is he getting in trouble now?” he asks, noting that illegal things happen at debaucherous celebrity parties all the time.
According to Jason, Diddy’s downfall is a result of his cockiness.
“Diddy started suing people and started challenging the establishment that put him in place,” says Jason, adding that Diddy mistakenly assumed that he was equal to the people who installed him at the top of the music industry.
“[He] thought, ‘Hey, I'm a billionaire; I'm the equal of these other people that installed me,’ and the people that installed Diddy are saying, ‘No, you're not; you have a role and a place to stay in; you've gone outside of that, and we will put you down like a sick dog,'” he explains.
“Diddy was a tool to bait people to come to his house and participate in things that they would put on camera, and now you have blackmail information on politicians, other celebrities, influencers,” says Jason.
“You wonder why all the Hollywood influencer celebrity people think the exact same thing — Kamala Harris is the greatest person in the world … she should be president of the United States, and Donald Trump is racist. You can't convince me that everybody in Hollywood thinks that. They think that because they have no other choice but to think that,” he says.
“What’s the next phase? Where do we go from here?” asks Jill.
To hear Jason’s answer, watch the clip above.
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Lizzo’s response to 'I QUIT' Instagram post has Blaze hosts LOLing (don’t read if you’re offended by fat jokes)
American rapper and singer Lizzo is apparently not quitting the music industry after all.
On March 29, the musician ragefully took to social media to declare that she had had it up to here with the haters and would be quitting.
Perhaps she was just having a moment, because a few days later, she returned to Instagram to announce that she didn’t mean "quit" in the literal sense.
“I want to make this video because I just need to clarify, when I say ‘I quit,’ I mean I quit giving any negative energy attention. What I’m not going to quit is the joy of my life, which is making music, which is connecting to people.”
“Why is she doing this in this outfit?” laughs Sara, referencing the star’s provocative blue swimsuit she chose to don while giving her “never mind, I don’t quit” speech.
“They make these statements, and they've just not got the courage of their conviction,” says Matthew Marsden. “They go, ‘Oh you know what, actually I'm making millions of dollars out of this, so I'm not going to quit.”’
“She did it all along for attention. Everyone knew she wasn’t gonna quit,” says Sara, adding that it’s frightening that “this is one of [Gen Z’s] role models.”
“I don't know about role model, but she's certainly a model that rolls,” giggles Marsden.
“When you said it was big news, I didn't know how ginormous the news was,” adds Jason Buttrill.
“To be fair, I don’t fat shame people who are not flaunting their fatness in my face,” acknowledges Sara. “As a former fatty, I appreciate someone who is like, ‘I know I’m overweight, and I'm trying to work on it.’ What I don't appreciate is someone who is like, ‘Look at me, look at all the rolls; you should be proud to look like this.'”
To hear more of the conversation (i.e., fat jokes), watch the clip below.
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Streaming services pull AI-generated Drake-inspired song, but it's not clear the musician has a legitimate copyright claim
The steel-driving man John Henry of American legend attempted to beat the machine and lost. Today, new technologies are steaming past America's top musicians and up the charts, but instead of railway ties, they are dropping beats.
Multiple streaming platforms have taken down a new viral AI-generated song featuring vocals reminiscent of both Drake's and the Weeknd's respective styles.
Although the musicians and their parent label Universal Music Group appear to have gotten their way in silencing the track, it's not clear whether they have a legitimate copyright claim or the right to do so. There are other recently released songs incorporating AI-generated celebrity sound-alikes that have been easy targets for complaints and removal since they contained borrowed instrumentation, lyrics, or other components that were copyright-protected.
For instance, Rihanna's voice was mimicked in a transmogrified version of the Beyoncé hit "Cuff It." Even if Rihanna proved incapable of taking legal action, Beyoncé and her label certainly were in a position to do so.
The 2-minute, 14-second song that made waves this week is, however, an original composition.
"Heart on My Sleeve" was created by an artist who goes by Ghostwriter977 and has over 2.5 million likes on TikTok.
Music Business Worldwide reported that the song is novel in composition and lyrics, but incorporates AI-generated vocals reminiscent of the voices of Drake and the Weeknd, whose real names are Aubrey Drake Graham and Abel Makkonen Tesfaye.
Michael Inouye, an analyst at ABI Research, told CNN that "AI could also have generated most of the song, lyrics and replicated the artists again based on the training data set and any prompts given to direct the AI model."
Roberto Nickson, the entrepreneur and designer behind Eluna AI, evidenced how easy it was to emulate a celebrity's voice with AI in a recent Twitter video:
\u201cAnd just like that. The music industry is forever changed.\n\nI recorded a verse, and had a trained AI model of Kanye replace my vocals.\n\nThe results will blow your mind. Utterly incredible.\u201d— Roberto Nickson (@Roberto Nickson) 1679796877
UMG complained and successfully had Ghostwriter977's song all but scrubbed from the internet.
It was removed this week from the streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, SoundCloud, Tidal, Deezer, and TikTok. According to Axios, the tune had over 600,000 plays on Spotify and 275,000 views on YouTube before it was taken down on the respective platforms. Altogether, it was reportedly streamed over 15 million times.
\u201cAI Drake + The Weeknd banger \u201cheart on my sleeve\u201d at over 250k streams on Spotify already\u201d— Jenny AI (@Jenny AI) 1681675257
The lyrics for the song have even been deleted from websites like Genius.
UMG said in a statement that its "success has been, in part, due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists–as we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already."
"With that said, however, the training of generative AI using our artists’ music (which represents both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation," added the corporate giant.
Axios has stressed that generative AI, whether the product be sonic or visual, is a "legal minefield," particularly in this case where Drake and the Weeknd neither wrote nor sang the song.
There are presently lawsuits tackling the issue of AI systems using copyrighted works as inputs.
For instance, Getty Images filed a lawsuit in January against AI art generator Stable Diffusion, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its AI model "without permission ... or compensation," reported the Verge.
Getty said in a statement, "It is Getty Images’ position that Stability AI unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright and the associated metadata owned or represented by Getty Images absent a license to benefit Stability AI’s commercial interests and to the detriment of the content creators."
The results of such legal actions may set a precedent applicable to the release of songs like Ghostwriter977's, where potentially copyrighted content served to train AI models to create a novel product.
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Whitlock: Black men allowed the music industry to create Lil Nas X and other morally bankrupt 'Industry Babies.'
For those of us outraged by rapper Lil Nas X's latest soft-porn music video, we have no one to blame other than ourselves.
We created Little Nasty X-rated when we danced to Too Short's "Freaky Tales," shouted "Me So Horny" at the request of the 2 Live Crew, co-signed Snoop's "Doggystyle," and rapped along to Lil Kim and 50 Cent's "Magic Stick."
We've spent 30 years defining black culture as an extension of hip-hop's pornographic lyrics and celebration of prison life.
Lil Nas X is simply holding a mirror. His sexually explicit, gay-in-prison video for the song "Industry Baby" is perfectly named. The industry birthed, nurtured, and is now hosting his coming-out party. He is the industry's baby. The industry has reared millions of Lil Nas Xs. They're not confined to our prisons and jails. Prison culture has been exported to mainstream society through music. The tatts, the cornrows, the sagging pants, the crude language, the gladiator violence, and the sexual fluidity have all been normalized.
Go listen to what we've been partying to for the past three decades. You thought "No Vaseline" was a diss track? Wrong D word. Try again.
Lil Nas X heard the message loud and queer.
"Y'all be silent as hell when n*****s dedicate their entire music catalogue to rapping about sleeping with multiple women," Nas X tweeted Sunday at Dr. Boyce Watkins, a black public intellectual who criticized X's music. "But when I do anything remotely sexual I'm 'being sexually irresponsible' and 'causin more men to die from AIDS.' Y'all ate gay people and don't hide it."
Nas X needs a better understanding of the adverb "remotely." His latest video is more than remotely sexual. The video starts innocently. A black prosecutor accuses Lil Nas X of the crime of homosexuality. A black judge sentences the rapper to five years in Montero State Prison for being gay. Nas plays the role of judge, prosecutor, defendant, and jury member. From there, things turn quite sexual. Nas makes it rain and simulates doggystyle sex with his cellmate. There's a shower scene with Nas and a half dozen naked inmates who appear to be auditioning for a remake of Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" video.
By normal standards, "Industry Baby" is more than "remotely" sexual. By today's rap music standards, the video is relatively tame. It's not quite Cardi B's "Wet A$ P***y," the BET Awards' 2020 video and song of the year, the American Music Awards' song of the year, and the People's Choice Award for best collaboration.
The American entertainment industry is PornHub. Lil Nas is the best new actor at the Adult Video News Awards. He's Dana Plato, who rose to fame starring as Mr. Drummond's daughter, Kimberly, on the family-oriented TV show "Different Strokes," and ended her career doing porn.
Lil Nas became famous and attracted a cult following of kids with the innocent, 2018 country rap song "Old Town Road." Three years later, his handlers unveiled him as a satanic icon with the song "Montero," an ode to Nas descending into hell to give Satan a lap dance. For anyone who missed the wicked symbolism, "Industry Baby" is the exclamation point.
Lil Nas X, like all commercial rappers before him, is here to promote immorality and degeneracy among young people. It's worth noting that Kanye West co-produced "Industry Baby."
As is fashionable today, Lil Nas cloaks his message in social justice reform. Along with the Friday video release, the clever rapper announced he's joining forces with the Bail Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending cash bail. Social justice reformers argue that cash bail drives structural racism in our criminal justice system.
"It's personal," Nas X said in a statement. "I know the pain that incarceration brings to a family. And I know the disproportionate impact that cash bail has on black Americans and the LGBTQ community. Let's bring people home and let's fight for freedom and equality."
Once again, the LGBTQ agenda is framed as a black issue. It's by design. It's been in the making for 60 years. It's our fault. We have been weak, malleable, materialistic, hedonistic, secular, and arrogant since the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
We created Lil Nas X.
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