{"id":33185,"date":"2025-09-20T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33185\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:33:07","slug":"kehlani-trashes-ai-artist-getting-3-million-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/33185\/","title":{"rendered":"Kehlani Trashes AI Artist Getting $3 Million Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI is the hot button topic of the music industry today. Artists like Gunna and Will.i.am have expressed their enthusiasm towards the idea, exploring the various possibilities for its use. \u201cAnd if they don\u2019t wanna battle in person, someone is going to get an AI simulator that takes all their body of work and all their concerts and flows and you\u2019ll see exactly who\u2019s doper,\u201d the latter proposes<\/a> between Jay-Z and Black Thought. Kehlani, however, is not for it one bit. Consequently, when an AI artist \u201csigns\u201d a $3 million deal, they lash out accordingly. <\/p>\n

Recently, the \u201cFolded\u201d singer spoke<\/a> out on TikTok, voicing their frustrations about AI-generated artist Xania Monet receiving a record deal. Writer Telisha \u201cNikki\u201d Jones is behind the songwriting and uses AI platform Suno to create the rest of the music. Kehlani doesn\u2019t stand for it though, emphasizing that there\u2019s no real person behind most of the work. \u201cThere is an AI R&B artist who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal \u2026 and the person is doing none of the work,\u201d they say. \u201cThis is so beyond out of our control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kehlani Says They\u2019re Against AI in Music<\/p>\n

Clearly, the R&B crooner emphasizes that AI is such a massive slippery slope in general, especially in music. You can essentially make a song from a core idea, a broad description, out of thin air. Then, there lies the mountain of potential copyright issues along the way. It\u2019s empty, hollow, and creatively gutless. <\/p>\n

Kehlani feels the same, no respect for anyone that tries to cut out all the steps of making true art. It\u2019s dishonest (and it ruins the earth and uses an absurd amount of water). \u201cNothing and no one on Earth will ever be able to justify AI to me.\u201d they say. \u201cI don\u2019t respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Telisha Jones, she stresses<\/a> that she owns all the rights to the music, arguing it took the same human effort as her songwriting. Her manager Romel Murphy says, \u201cShe\u2019s been writing poetry for a long time,\u201d and that her success comes from the purity of that expression. <\/p>\n