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Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were...

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Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
Source: The Verge
The seemingly AI generated cover art for Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz.
That cover art is almost certainly AI, too. | Image: Fenix Flexin

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo success with the track "Rubberz," which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song's origins, with many speculating that it was largely, if not entirely, generated by AI. Fenix has denied those accusations, but done little to dispel them.

Part of the suspicion is certainly due to the fact that the song is a dramatic left turn. Fenix has primarily trafficked in trap-influenced West Coast rap. "Rubberz," on the other hand, is heavily influenced by '80s UK s …

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