It’s as if Capitol Records was so preoccupied with whether or not a someone could create a racist cartoon character they didn’t stop to think if they should.

When Capitol Records signed so-called robot rapper FN Meka earlier this month, it billed the move as a new frontier in the music industry. But the company announced on Tuesday that it has ...

breaking: Capitol Records “has severed ties” with the A.I. rapper FN Meka, “effective immediately,” following days of backlash over the caricature the activist group @industryblkout called ...

FN Meka – Capitol Records *Less than a month after Capitol Records signed AI rapper FN Meka, the label is pulling the plug on its virtual artist after clips went viral of it using the N-word.

Earlier this month, Capitol Records announced it had signed FN Meka and was releasing a single, “Florida Water,” with the artist Gunna and the gaming streamer Cody “Clix” Conrad.

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 25, 2022, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Capitol Drops the ‘Robot Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash.

This photo shows an outside view of the Capitol Records building on August 24, 2020, in Los Angeles. Capitol announced Tuesday it was dropping FN Meka, an AI rapper that has caused a fair amount ...

The Capitol signing had been announced Aug. 11 in a press release titled “FN Meka, the world’s biggest A.R. rapper, signs to Capitol Records in a global first.” ...

Capitol Records ended its record deal with a stereotypical 'rapper' that rhymes in the digital world. The controversy showed a major pitfall of AI. Aug. 25, 2022, 1:06 PM PDT By Ja'han Jones ...

Epic Records censored Weezy's line in various ways and apologized, as did Wayne after the Till family shared their disgust with the lyrics. Those bars earned Weezy a ban from Michigan radio ...

Capitol Records drops virtual rapper FN Meka over criticism that it was offensive to Black artists By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Aug 24, 2022 Updated Aug 24, 2022 0 ...