Lupe Fiasco Collaborates with Google to Develop Innovative A.I. Tool for Rappers

Lupe Fiasco and Google have partnered to create an A.I. tool designed to be used by rappers.

TextFX, “specifically (focuses) on the writing process of creating raps.”

Users can experiment with word variations, a technique Lupe uses in his own lyric writing.

“Rap is born out of technology,” he explains in a video about the tool, “rap wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for these technological advancements.”

Aaron Wade, a Creative Technologist at Google, said, “Initially, we thought that maybe Lupe would want an A.I. system to write lyrics for him, verses and raps.  But it turns out that he didn’t want that at all.  What he wanted was a tool that helped him explore the universe of possibilities that can arise from any given word, phrase, or concept.”

TextFX is now available for users.

Lupe uses TextFX to “co-write” a song in a separate video.  He explains how the technology functions and performs the resulting song “Glass Of Water.”

“Depending on what you want to get out of it, it is there for you to get it,” he explains.  “It does require you to do the work; it’s not doing the work for you.  It’s just providing you with different opportunities, and workflow, and being efficient, and you know, offloading certain things so your mind can focus on other things.”