{"id":56987,"date":"2022-08-26T10:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dubious-white-guy-who-built-fn-meka-a-black-robot-rapper-lost-his-record-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:58:03","slug":"dubious-white-guy-who-built-fn-meka-a-black-robot-rapper-lost-his-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dubious-white-guy-who-built-fn-meka-a-black-robot-rapper-lost-his-record-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubious White Guy Who Built &#8216;FN Meka,&#8217; A Black Robot Rapper, Lost His Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"left\">\n<p>Last week, the world learned that Capitol Music Group was signing FN Meka, the world&#8217;s first and hopefully only big AI rapper.  A week later, we have to announce the sad news that FN Meka has just been dropped by his label.  Ok, chances are our readers are wondering who the hell FN Meka is, so we&#8217;re gonna have to try and explain that.  If one is to google &#8220;FN Meka&#8221;, they&#8217;ll encounter an image of what looks like an NFT that gained sentience and tried to escape the confines of the blockchain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption>Behold, the world&#8217;s first Digital blackface.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<section class=\"ck-anyclips ck-anyclips-mobile\" id=\"outstream-mobile\"\/>\n<p>The good news is that Meka has nothing to do with NFTs (at least not yet).  The bad news is that he has to do with something even worse than that.  Meka is the creation of a shady group and was publicized by Clix, a white <i>Fortnite<\/i> pro player who helped boost Meka&#8217;s popularity on TikTok to stratospheric levels.  In short, they went full Tarantino 2.0 and created a virtual black character they could use as a mouthpiece for racial slurs.  Meka&#8217;s songs attracted a lot of criticism because, well, they&#8217;re as tasteful as you&#8217;d imagine, and the backlash caused Capitol to understand how stupid of a move this whole thing was.  Clix is \u200b\u200bliterally just a 17-year-old who can probably just get away with claiming that \u201c<i>Fortnite<\/i> made him do it\u201d, but there&#8217;s more to this.<\/p>\n<section class=\"ad-wrapper ad-mobile ad-injected-mobile\"> <label class=\"continue\"> <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M10.024 4h6.015l7.961 8-7.961 8h-6.015l7.961-8-7.961-8zm-10.024 16h6.015l7.961-8-7.961-8h-6.015l7.961 8-7.961 8z\"\/><\/svg>  Continue Reading Below <\/label>  <\/section>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t use some weird AI to do FN Meka&#8217;s voice \u2013 even though that&#8217;s totally a thing now.  A real black artist named \u201cKyle The Hooligan\u201d provided the voice for the character, but he was allegedly ghosted without compensation as soon as he concluded is voice work.  The people behind FN Meka state that the character isn&#8217;t <i>that<\/i> problematic because there&#8217;s only one white person in the group, but the way they treat their talent indicates that they probably aren&#8217;t to be trusted in anything they say.<\/p>\n<p><i>Top Image: Epic Games<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"related\">Related: Black Creators Who Got Their Material Stolen<\/h3>\n<section class=\"module-newsletter module-newsletter-v1\">\n<header> <img src=\"https:\/\/ui-seo-3.crackedcdn.com\/images\/cracked_logo_c.svg?v=8809c7c56b5e6f68cf19cbbe4c5a9b09\" class=\"lozad logo\"\/> <\/p>\n<h2>Get the Cracked Daily Newsletter!<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<article>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got your morning reading covered.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<h2>Tags<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"ck-anyclips-desktop\">\n<section class=\"ck-anyclips ck-anyclips-article\" id=\"outstream\"\/>\n<\/section>\n<nav class=\"socials-bottom\">  <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"21\" height=\"21\" role=\"img\" viewbox=\"0 0 264 512\" data-fa-i2svg=\"\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M76.7 512V283H0v-91h76.7v-71.7C76.7 42.4 124.3 0 193.8 0c33.3 0 61.9 2.5 70.2 3.6V85h-48.2c-37.8 0-45.1 18-45.1 44.3V192H256l-11.7 91h-73.6v229\"\/><\/svg> <span>Facebook<\/span>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_35111_dubious-white-guy-who-built-fn-meka-a-black-robot-rapper-lost-his-record-deal.html&amp;text=Dubious White Guy Who Built \u2018FN Meka,\u2019 A Black Robot Rapper, Lost His Record Deal\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dubious White Guy Who Built \u2018FN Meka,\u2019 A Black Robot Rapper, Lost His Record Deal\"> <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"21\" height=\"21\" role=\"img\" viewbox=\"0 0 512 512\" data-fa-i2svg=\"\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M459.37 151.716c.325 4.548.325 9.097.325 13.645 0 138.72-105.583 298.558-298.558 298.558-59.452 0-114.68-17.219-161.137-47.106 8.447.974 16.568 1.299 25.34 1.299 49.055 0 94.213-16.568 130.274-44.832-46.132-.975-84.792-31.188-98.112-72.772 6.498.974 12.995 1.624 19.818 1.624 9.421 0 18.843-1.3 27.614-3.573-48.081-9.747-84.143-51.98-84.143-102.985v-1.299c13.969 7.797 30.214 12.67 47.431 13.319-28.264-18.843-46.781-51.005-46.781-87.391 0-19.492 5.197-37.36 14.294-52.954 51.655 63.675 129.3 105.258 216.365 109.807-1.624-7.797-2.599-15.918-2.599-24.04 0-57.828 46.782-104.934 104.934-104.934 30.213 0 57.502 12.67 76.67 33.137 23.715-4.548 46.456-13.32 66.599-25.34-7.798 24.366-24.366 44.833-46.132 57.827 21.117-2.273 41.584-8.122 60.426-16.243-14.292 20.791-32.161 39.308-52.628 54.253z\"\/><\/svg> <span>twitter<\/span> <\/a> <\/nav>\n<div class=\"module-recommended\">\n<h2>Recommended For Your Pleasure<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the world learned that Capitol Music Group was signing FN Meka, the world&#8217;s first and hopefully only big AI rapper. A week later, we have to announce the sad news that FN Meka has just been dropped by his label. Ok, chances are our readers are wondering who the hell FN Meka is, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dubious-white-guy-who-built-fn-meka-a-black-robot-rapper-lost-his-record-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dubious White Guy Who Built &#8216;FN Meka,&#8217; A Black Robot Rapper, Lost His Record Deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54372,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/capitol-records-drops-virtual-ai-rapper-fn-meka-after-backlash\/","url_meta":{"origin":56987,"position":0},"title":"Capitol Records Drops Virtual AI Rapper FN Meka After Backlash","date":"August 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"grand opening grand closing. 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