Kanye West and Eminem need not worry in the future about the public criticism – constructive or otherwise – that comes with music consumption. There won’t be a Kanye or Eminem or Weezy or Kendrick, or Jay and Bey, for that matter, thanks to Artificial Intelligence.

Spoiler Alert: We are evolving into a cyborg nation where Artificial Intelligence will eventually eliminate the need for “actual” human beings. That includes artists within the music industry. That includes the music industry altogether. No, really. Sleep on the subject if you choose but with AI platforms quickly becoming a reality, it will change the way all genres of music are designed and relished. Plain and simply, we won’t need a Kanye West.

Imagine a machine or platform that can create a personal playlist of millions of tracks within seconds. This playlist is developed from an algorithm that is constructed based upon your individualized sonic and lyrical tastes, writing and producing a track for you by pulling stripped, unrefined frequencies from a song. The rapper is the machine. The rapper’s name? AI.

So, I know a guy who knows a guy. Okay, not true. There is no middle man, I just know a guy. He’s a mover and a shaker in Silicon Valley who shall remain nameless. Out of fear. Fear that him, Elon Musk, and the CIA will abduct me while I’m sleeping for the things I’ve been made privy to. This CEO is ingenious. Intelligence way beyond the comprehension of a layman. That “way above our pay grade” type of intelligence.

In a recent conversation with unnamed source, we were discussing the implications of AI and superhuman cognition being introduced to a society who isn’t evolved enough to operate such power. Though I can’t ultimately be sure that I was even speaking to a human being on the other end of the phone because this guy has been known to call using AI and I sh*t you not, based on tone, voice, intonation, and sense of humor, I would be none the wiser if it was a machine. Creepy.

If you haven’t seen the interview with Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Podcast, I suggest you watch. In it, he discusses his plans to create a cognition layer to our limbic system within the brain. It would be the “AI extension” of your organic human self, so to speak.

We’re talking human and machine symbiosis, folks. We’re talking infiltration of our pineal glands, people. Don’t get me started. While I adore Elon Musk and I’d love to spend just fifteen minutes psychoanalyzing him, I believe this man is in need of a cup of tea and a twenty-minute yoga sesh.

I asked this unnamed guy if he believed in the notion that reality is so boring that we need to create such a simulation. Ironic, if you think about it. Asking a developer of Artificial Intelligence – an individual who could care less that a computer doesn’t possess “feelings and empathy” – to play devils advocate and admit to me that the human race isn’t spiritually enlightened enough to match the potency of what Elon is suggesting. Silly me. “If we’re all in scientific agreement that we exist within a multiverse,” I asked, “then why do we need to integrate it on Earth if it already exists?”

AI software already exists within Apple cellular devices as well and they are far from the only company. Include Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Spotify in that equation. These are technologies and platforms that, much like the central nervous system that manipulates our breath automatically without our need to control it, exist without our awareness of it. Machines driving success.

Efforts to slow down AI are futile. Organic human creativity and life as we know it will eventually be outside of human control as Elon warned us.

The guy on the phone asked, “Do you still love Lil Wayne? Say goodbye to him as a music mogul.” The conversation grew depressing. Shaking my head, I replied “It’s all too much and I don’t even know.” He laughed maniacally, “You and the rest of the world may not know but my algorithm does.”

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