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Drake’s beef with Kendrick Lamar isn’t nearly as important as his tiff with Tupac Shakur’s estate over using the dead rapper’s voice

  • Written by Jabari M. Evans, Assistant Professor of Race and Media, University of South Carolina
imageCanadian rap artist Drake was forced to pull a diss track he had produced that used an AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur.Prince Williams/Wireimage via Getty Images

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