Eminem AI “Cat Rap” creator Grandayy has been smacked with a copyright strike against his popular YouTube video which has now been taken down.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday (April 2), the Maltese YouTuber posted a letter from the video streaming platform confirming the copyright strike filed by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), which signed Eminem to a worldwide, exclusive administration agreement back in 2007.
“Universal Music Group just decided to copyright strike my AI Eminem Cat Rap video,” he tweeted alongside a screenshot of the strike message. “Usually they just claim and monetize videos like this but they really wanted AI Eminem to be taken down for some reason.”
The copyright strike against Grandayy’s channel may also subject him to account termination in the future. “To prevent that from happening, please don’t upload videos containing copyrighted content that you aren’t allowed to use,” YouTube relayed to him in its message.
The AI Slim Shady’s “Cat Rap” video has generated a lot of commentary since its debut — so much so that it was even featured on a February episode of the popular HBO talk show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Oliver, who included the video in his larger segment about artificial intelligence, explained that the video was created by giving ChatGPT the prompt: “write an Eminem song about cats.” Oliver called the resultant video “stellar.”
“Cat Rap” also has a lot of fans on Twitter, with many becoming near-instant fans of the song since hearing it on Oliver’s show. “Okay, the AI Eminem cat song from last week tonight is kind of a banger?” wrote one fan.
Another added: “It’s beautiful: ChatGPT was asked to write Eminem-style lyrics about how he loves cats.”
The Eminem “Cat Rap” controversy is just the latest AI hubbub in Hip Hop. While some AI treatments — like the AI recreation of Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap of Chris Rock — have been garnering a more positive response, other artificially-created treatments have been facing some pushback.
On March 31, an AI-generated JAY-Z verse that has gone viral sparked concern from Young Guru, 9th Wonder and DJ Clark Kent, with Guru calling for the government to intervene.
Hov’s esteemed engineer shared the digitally-generated vocals on his Instagram page on Friday (March 31), which sound almost indistinguishable to the Roc Nation mogul. That was enough for Guru to sound the alarm bells for where AI is heading.
“I’ve been trying to tell everyone that this is where we are now with AI. For some reason this one got everyone’s attention. So what do we do. On one hand I’m well aware that you can’t stop technology. Once the genie is out of the box you can put him back in,” Guru wrote on his Instagram page.
AI gonna make rappers life so easy. South Park already got an episode written by using AI and its hilarious.
After hearing JAY Z AI raps, i’m convinced that Jay hasn’t recorded since Reasonable Doubt, and he has been been using AI technology since 97.
If the lyrics and beat are original, (haven’t heard the song). he should take them to court. You can’t copyright a voice or copyright strike something you don’t even own. The record labels are testing the waters on this A.I shit. Drown em.
Honestly though the whole thing pissed me off. Lil bytes “woke” dope ass song listened to it for weeks then started catching on when the amber heard diss release didn’t make sense for EMS character it was wild random out of left field for how hard it went on her. How many views did lil byte accumulate just because it was labeled as an Eminem song . The comment on the Putin diss. Sad. There are from people in the middle of the Ukraine war praising em for such a bad as rally song to go fight to praise here praise there REACTION vidz of amber heard Putin diss . Praising em.. all fooled . I felt lied to mislead and over all tricked , I’m a die hard em fan and I was pumped thinkin these were his songs let’s also point out he made 1 diss against the game,, I Thought he made 3.. but NO. 2 WERE FROM LIL BYTE . GRANTED songs were fuckin on point his flow even sharper and word usage phenomenal. But it’s still a lie .. he’s got the skill set he shouldn’t be masking and tricking like it’s holloween. His skill is enough. I can’t believe it’s come down to we can’t even trust our ears while listening to our favorite people . Lil byte claims to have written all this SO PUT UR NAME ON EM BE PROUD OF THOSe SONGS . Or. Is the A.I voice ur making it with ALSO writing the songs for u ? His word usage is the same if a computer wrote em with unlimited complex words at the ready. I had to look up half the words he used in “Woke” I wrote em down word for word n sTILL can’t keep up I’m impressed. But also bitter n pissed cuz I was tricked. Not just with one but like 6 songs I had been tryin to learn thinking they were new from em. It’s been my thing since the slim shady LP . Learning his lyrics word for word album to album track to track . Don’t ask it’s just something my ADHD adopted itself . . And doin so it gets exhausting especially his newer stuff . He’s so complex now I’d learn the whole new album by the time people learned the mainstream track at current I’m still working on kamikaze and every album n track since . U could say iv fallen behind but my mind is latching lyrics like they used to . Then.. enter. “woke” = mind√π÷×∆ explosion it’s so complex I didn’t think he was saying sentances for a min super stoked overtime was put in and then I found out it wasn’t even em ..
What a bitch. Nope. It’s parody. And honestly, a lot of Eminem’s lyrics are gibberish garbage anyway. A robot probably could compose something as profound.
Have u actually ever listen to Eminem? Clearly not . Jibber ish¿ How, when , what song please tell me where his words are crystal clear . Only way u could get jibberish from any track is if u can’t listen fast enough to catch the syllables recognize how em can mimic bass beats with his flow or connect the artistically alined metaphorical dot sequence that’s sees all of his music together , it’s called Google . Research some shit and no shitten kitten it’s make sence to even a nimrod like u . Plus everything ever realeased was wrote BY em. No ghosts hurr. He grew up thinking that’s how hip hop was , only learning of ghoast writters later in life .. like ice cube wrote alot of people’s songs. Eminem wrote New York by jZ. Jz couldn’t even come up with a blow out song about his own city ” he loves so much” Eminem from Detroit had to . LL cool jay one of emz favorite also wrote for alot. But anything spoke by em was wrote by em. So download some songs not the mainstream ones .. that’s to easy. Pull up lyrics and read along if u can keep up. Decipher if u can the puzzles and word play he incorporated. Ul find he sez one bar but explained like 5 different thing or more all using the same bar just listening from a different mind pointe . Uncultured swine . Smh jibberIsh … Blasphemy! U should be held in the town slcenter and stoned to death for your incompetent listening ability. Good day sir