Drake‘s voice has once again been used by artificial intelligence for another track uploaded to the internet — and fans are loving the results.
The track, titled “Winter’s Cold,” was posted to Soundcloud on Tuesday (April 18), by someone known as Lvcci, featuring the artificial vocals of the Toronto rap star. The track has already garnered over 120,000 listeners on the platform.
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“Winter’s cold where I’m from, (yea) I got enemies/ The winter’s cold where I’m from, they tryna end me/ I swear the winter’s cold where I’m from, they tryna sentence me,” AI Drake raps.
Check out the track below:
https://soundcloud.com/actuallylvcci/drake-winters-cold-original-ai-song?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Though the rapper has expressed displeasure in the past about his voice being artificially engineered, it seems his fans don’t mind.
“Firstly, let me just say that that AI shit is evil & immoral. What’s already happened, and what could potentially happen to artists and the industry with this tech is despicable,” one fan tweeted. “HOWEVER, with all that said, THAT AI DRAKE WINTER’S COLD SONG IS THE HARDEST SHIT TO DROP THIS YEAR!!”
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Another wrote: “AI Drake Winter’s Cold is one of the most fire Ai songs I heard yet sheesh. Sounds real as fuck. They are about to hard-ban ai songs.”
“We bumping AI Music this summer? The ai artist has done it again with Winter’s cold by drake,” someone else tweeted, while a fourth person shared a doctored photo of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing headphones alongside the caption: “AI Drake bangs. That winter’s cold has me shook , I’m sorry.”
The rapper’s voice was also recently used in another AI influenced track, “heart on my sleeve” featuring The Weeknd. On the AI-generated tune, the two trade bars about the latter’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.
After initially being posted on Youtube by someone named ghostwriter, the track was then shared to Apple, Tidal, Deezer and Spotify. It had reportedly racked up over 630,000 listens on the latter.
Universal Music Group, where both Drizzy and The Weeknd are currently signed, has since taken the track off all the aforementioned platforms, and in a lengthy statement (via Music Week) commented on the rise of “deep fakes” and asked which “side of history” its stakeholders wanted to be on.
“UMG’s 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,” the statement began.
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“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.”
