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Sheryl Crow slams Drake's 'hateful' use of an AI version of Tupac Shakur

Sheryl Crow has hit out at Canadian rapper Drake for using AI to 'resurrect' Tupac Shakur on one of his songs.

The Take Care singer sparked fury, and legal threats, earlier this year when he utilised Artificial Intelligence to mimic the voice of late rapper Tupac on a track called Taylor Made Freestyle.

The song was subsequently removed after lawyers for Tupac's estate issued a cease-and-desist order, but now Sheryl has slammed the rap star for doing it in the first place.

She fumed to the BBC, "You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that.

"I'm sure Drake thought, 'Yeah, I shouldn't do it, but I'll say sorry later'. But it's already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down. It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us."

The American music icon was alarmed herself when she heard a producer using a similar technique to remove her vocals from a song to replace them with a note-perfect fake version of John Mayer.

She recalled, "I know John and I know the nuances of his voice. And there would be no way you'd have been able to tell that he was not singing that song."

Sheryl has been petitioning politicians to tighten laws surrounding AI, and she has also made it the subject of a new track called Evolution.

Tupac Shakur was murdered in September 1996 at the age of 25 - and police arrested Duane 'Keffe D' Davis in September last year for the rapper's murder.

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