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<p>A song generated by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/artificial-intelligence-may-be-our-best-tool-to-find-alien-life">artificial intelligence</a> that reproduced the voices of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/drakes-new-track-search-and-rescue-is-a-direct-provocation-of-kanye-west">Drake</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-weeknd-shades-rolling-stone-after-the-idol-report">The Weeknd</a> was yanked from <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hbo-warner-bros-discovery-to-launch-combined-streaming-service-max">streaming services</a> on Tuesday after <a href="https://twitter.com/rpnickson/status/1647548141384736770?s=20">going viral</a> this week, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral-ai-powered-drake-weeknd-song-removed-streaming-services-rcna80098">NBC News reports</a>. </p>
<p>The track, produced by a TikTok musician who goes by Ghostwriter977, features a spare piano beat and what sounds like recycled Drake lyrics from his <em>If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late</em> mixtape era. </p>
<p>Titled “heart on my sleeve,” the song was briefly present on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Amazon, YouTube, and Tidal before being taken down—though it had already racked up a whopping 629,439 streams on Spotify by then, per the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65309313">BBC</a>. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ai-generated-drake-and-weeknd-song-yanked-from-streaming-after-umg-statement">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
The track, produced by a TikTok musician who goes by Ghostwriter977, features a spare piano beat and what sounds like recycled Drake lyrics from his If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late mixtape era.
Titled “heart on my sleeve,” the song was briefly present on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Amazon, YouTube, and Tidal before being taken down—though it had already racked up a whopping 629,439 streams on Spotify by then, per the BBC.
