In a recent interview it was revealed that Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy Nominated music video “The Heart Part 5” almost included an Eminem deep fake. Apparently Dave Free and K. Dot had collaborated with the creators of South Park Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who own a company the specializes in deep fake technology. The pair decided to lend the technology to the pgLang pair, who were the very first to have used the technology in a music video.
Stone revealed that, “You see Kendrick turned into Tupac, Kendrick turned into Kanye, and I think we had Eminem,” unfortunately Eminem didn’t make the final version of the music video and they instead used, Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson and Jussie Smollett.
However, the video isn’t without controversy especially with rapper AK stating that, “Kendrick Lamar’s new music video is an exact copy of my video from 2020 of my song ‘Family Tree,’ Maybe I’m fooling myself for thinking that Kendrick saw my video and was like, ‘Damn, that’s so good that I want to do it myself.’ But I was under Universal; he is under Universal. I did that video in 2020 with Universal. Obviously, the song didn’t do as good as if Kendrick was to do it, but the concept was so sick and I f-cking don’t know, but it’s the same exact thing — it’s a backdrop, it’s him in front of it, it’s one take.”
He continued to say that, “And I want to make it clear, like, he’s an icon, I respect Kendrick. This is just very weird, bruh. That’s why I was like, ‘Damn, this is unique as f-ck.’ And when I drop this, it’s gonna go stupid because nobody’s ever done this before. But as an independent artist, that’s the type of sh-t that you have to eat. And my whole message behind it is, keep going ’cause you gotta eat sh-t sometimes but eventually, you’ll be aiight.”
In other Kendrick related news, he managed to get eight 2023 Grammy Award nominations for his latest album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
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