Recent advances in machine learning have allowed musicians like Holly Herndon to use artificial intelligence programs while creating their music. As reported in Adweek, digital agency space150 recently pushed the technology to its limits by creating an entirely AI-generated song with lyrics and melodies modeled after Travis Scott’s music.

After two weeks of feeding lyrics into a text generator model, the creative team produced a track titled “Jack Park Canny Dope Man” by a deepfake version of the rapper named Travisbott. It was released with an unsettling music video:

The track comes complete with Scott’s signature “it’s lit” and “straight up” ad-libs and features heavily auto-tuned vocals with nonsensical rhymes:

I ain’t got the surfers ‘cause I know I’m not that hard

But I got all my old bitches mad by the bars

Thinkin’ at the Grammys, in the family, I got stars

Try to put in the plane, but the blame be on the cars

Ned Lampert, executive creative director at space150, explained to Adweek why the agency created the project, which wasn’t designed for any particular client.

“We were sort of fascinated with like, ‘What if we tried to make a song—like an actual good song—by using AI and basically creative directing AI?‘” he said. “And so we chose Travis Scott just because he is just such a unique artist and he has a unique sound and everything sort of has an aesthetic to it, both audibly and visually.”

According to Lampert, the bot initially kept generating lyrics about food while it was still learning to mimic the Houston rapper’s style. “There was one line like, ‘I don’t want to fuck your party food,’” he recalled.

Much like Herndon did with her 2019 album, PROTO, the agency used neural network programs to create the melodies and percussion arrangements for the song’s instrumental, which falls just short of approximating the feel of Travis' signature sound.

In late 2019, Canadian musician Grimes spoke about AI’s growing capacity to create music on the Mindscape podcast. “Once there’s actual AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), it’s gonna be so much better at making art than us,” she said. “Once AI can totally master science and art, which could happen in the next 10 years, probably more like 20 or 30 years.”

While Travisbott shows machine learning hasn’t surpassed human ability quite yet, AI-generated music continues to improve at a rapid pace.

Check out the full Adweek report here, and read all the lyrics to TravisBott’s “Jack Park Canny Dope Man” on Genius now.