50 Cent‘s AI remixes aren’t just light-hearted fun (the type his 35 million Instagram followers have become accustomed to) — they help to showcase his musical genius in a new light, according to the man himself.
The G-Unit boss recently dabbled in the artificial intelligence trend by posting computer-generated renditions of “21 Questions”and “God Gave Me Style” that reimagined them as 1960s Motown-inspired anthems.
The move may have ruffled a few feathers given how controversial the topic of AI is in music, but if you ask 50, he’ll tell you there’s a lesser-known benefit to giving rap songs the AI remix treatment.
“I really like those songs!” he told Complex. “Look, it will reach someone that I missed. Someone who couldn’t hear what I was trying to say to them in the writing can hear it now that it’s in that format. They’ll go, ‘Oh, yo! Play that again!’”
Fif added: “I don’t know where AI get these voices from, but these are some good voices! If these guys came out in that time period, they would have been competition for the guys that were there.”
Pressed for his thoughts on the growing concerns over AI, the Power mogul — ever the entrepeneur — said: “I don’t like fighting fights that I can’t win. I don’t think you can beat AI; I think you need to go with it.
“I think we need to look at how we create businesses that work well with it and performs faster and progresses as [AI] progresses because it’s not gonna stop progress.”
50 Cent’s argument about his AI remixes making his songs more accessible to a wider audience checks out. Do a quick scan of his Instagram posts and you’ll see dozens of comments praising his songwriting ability and melodic sensibilities.
“This proves how great of a song writer 50 is. Great writing works no matter the melody,” one fan commented, while another said: “Proof that every timeline still finds a way to make him iconic.”
There were also plenty of jokes, too, with one aspiring comedian writing: “Curtis Jackson & The Units.” Someone else quipped: “Nat King Curt.”
50 hinted that there might be more where these came from, captioning one of his posts: “Now this shit is hot [fire emoji] I’m a use AI on all my unreleased songs and see what I got for ya!”
