How Rap’s Civil War Was Shaped by AI
The recent “Rap Civil War” accelerated the use of AI in rap music and, as with digital sampling, creatives will use it regardless of the implications.
Teo Blake Beauchamp
Teo Blake Beauchamp is an artist and educator from Los Angeles, California. He teaches a diversity of undergraduate classes in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, as well as, several MFA classes at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. Additionally, he teaches "Rap and Rock as Cultural Phenomena" at Montclair State. Beauchamp also works as an audio engineer and writer with a focus on the intersection of music and technology.
War & Peace: The Cultural Meaning of Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake
The Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake feud is serious, but it is the claim to and manipulation of culture that may have the greatest consequences for all of us.