YouTube-Google Music Chief Lyor Cohen, Rapper Jidenna Hail The Age Of AI – Deadline

Before the discussion about the future of music and AI between YouTube/Google music chief Lyor Cohen and rapper-singer Jidenna had even begun, striking images filled the screen. It was the official music video for the Wu-Tang Clan’s latest single, “Mandingo,” every photorealistic frame of which was made with Google AI video generator Veo 2. “When I saw that, I almost fell out of my chair,” Cohen said at the event Monday night. “I would challenge anybody to say, ‘That’s not art.’ I think it’s absolutely artistic, and it’s incredibly well done. And they’re not alone.” Jidenna spent the next half-hour detailing his evolution from musical artist to AI-savvy multi-hyphenate, pausing at the beginning to greet Busta Rhymes, Chuck D and Wyclef. The hip-hop legends were among the crowd of a few dozen in a screening room at New York’s recently opened branch of private club San Vicente. Watch on Deadline A sizable social following and hits like the Grammy-nominated 2015 track “Classic Man” came during Jidenna’s major-label days. Today, he is charting a decidedly independent course and has thrown himself into the booming realm of computer-generated video. A direct line can be drawn between the rise of hip-hop and the
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