Hip-Hop Artists as Early Adopters: From Drum Machines to AI Video Gen
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-08-24
Observes that hip-hop artists have historically been early adopters of technologies initially derided by the mainstream, such as drum machines, sampling, and autotune. This pattern continues with AI; the author notes that hip-hop artists were the first to inquire about early video generation tools like Disco Diffusion and Pytti back in 2022.
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