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There isn’t any<\/span> such factor as a common \u201cmusic of the summer season<\/a>\u201d anymore, however when you\u2019re into rap music, Fenix Flexin\u2019s \u201cRubberz\u201d is a fairly robust contender.<\/p>\n Formally launched in June, it presently sits at No. 58 within the Billboard Sizzling 100<\/a> and has a music video with 7 million views<\/a>. Lyrically, it\u2019s acquired all the things you\u2019d need: boasts about money and jewellery, and bars that work as a double entendre for braggadocio and despair.<\/p>\n However there are two fascinating twists to \u201cRubberz.\u201d First, it isn\u2019t a rap music in any respect<\/a>; it\u2019s a synth-pop tune that will be at dwelling in a moody \u201980s playlist. Additionally, because it dropped, it\u2019s been the main target of accusations that it was fully or partially AI-generated<\/a>.<\/p>\n The argument reached a peak this weekend after an unbiased music producer claimed he\u2019d discovered not solely how Fenix had made \u201cRubberz\u201d however that the rapper\u2019s labelmate, Tyga, additionally appears to have used a little-known generative AI music app to create some \u201980s-themed tunes of his personal.<\/p>\n And now, the creators of that very same AI music app have successfully snitched on each: The service\u2019s new built-in detector is now flagging the songs made by each Fenix and Tyga as possible AI-generated.<\/p>\n This may increasingly lastly settle the argument followers have been having all summer season. It gained\u2019t settle the one they\u2019re about to start out.<\/p>\n Individuals have been suspicious of Fenix from the start; \u201cRubberz\u201d just isn’t solely an uncommon style shift for the artist, it additionally doesn\u2019t sound like his voice within the music.<\/p>\n Fenix Flexin grew up in East Hollywood, and he sounds prefer it<\/a>, and when he debuted as a part of the group Shoreline Mafia within the late 2010s, you might all the time acknowledge which bars have been his due to his considerably nasally, congested<\/a> voice. The voice on his June 5 launch of \u201cRubberz,\u201d nonetheless, is totally unrecognizable. It\u2019s so much brighter and crisper, and the accent sounds nearer to a really chipper Morrissey.<\/p>\n Each he and the credited producer, Purps on the Beat, have denied utilizing AI at each flip. Fenix advised Channel 5<\/a> that he \u201cfreestyled\u201d the lyrics, and within the feedback of an On the Radar<\/em> efficiency, he replied to individuals<\/a> accusing him of utilizing AI: “No sirrrrrrr, recorded identical as all music I do! Solely distinction is auto-tune reverb and me utilizing my pretend uk accent lol.”<\/p>\n Not everybody purchased his clarification, however there was no proof in any other case. Because the summer season continued, music media debated whether or not \u201cRubberz\u201d had been AI-generated. However not one of the well-known AI music detectors flagged it, Fenix denied it, and the music continued to rack up performs. Followers had no selection however to get snug with the query being unresolved.<\/p>\n Then, issues shifted immediately. On Thursday, a music producer named Medasin posted a video<\/a> claiming he\u2019d discovered how Fenix used AI to make the monitor.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t Suno, or Udio, the 2 most distinguished generative AI instruments for making music. As a substitute, Medasin says, Flexin had used a lesser-known app known as Treblo<\/a>. Medasin breaks down his accusation methodically: First, he factors out that the app was known as Sonauto<\/a> till two days earlier than \u201cRubberz\u201d was launched. After which he reveals a display cap of one in every of Fenix\u2019s outdated Instagram Tales<\/a> teasing his new \u201980s sound. A freeze-frame and zoom reveals {that a} filename being proven on display has the suffix \u201cSonauto.mp3.\u201d<\/p>\n However essentially the most compelling accusation comes when Medasin reveals how he was in a position to make use of Treblo to create a really related monitor. By utilizing tags like \u201c80s synthwave\u201d and prompting the app to write down lyrics a couple of \u201crapper life-style,\u201d Medasin acquired a similar-sounding music. The lyrics even bear greater than a passing resemblance to \u201cRubberz.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/script> There isn’t any such factor as a common \u201cmusic of the summer season\u201d anymore, however when you\u2019re into rap music, Fenix Flexin\u2019s \u201cRubberz\u201d is a fairly robust contender. Formally launched in June, it presently sits at No. 58 within the Billboard Sizzling 100 and has a music video with 7 million views. 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