US rapper Afroman has defeated seven sheriff's deputies in a court case after they sued him for releasing songs and videos that mocked them and a raid they carried out on his home. The officers broke down the musician's door in 2022 as part of a drug and kidnapping investigation, but the raid didn't lead to any charges. Afroman, best known for his 2000 hit Because I Got High, responded by using home security footage in viral videos that ridiculed the deputies. His video for the song Lemon Pound Cake was inspired by a deputy apparently eyeing a cake in his kitchen, while another video attributed personal and sexual transgressions to the officers. They sued him for defamation, but a jury has sided with the colourful rapper after a three-day trial. Afroman yelled outside the Ohio court, surrounded by supporters, in a clip posted on social media after the verdict.

Joy Reid said the GOP is using Nicki Minaj to put "blackface on MAGA" during appearance on Don Lemon show, launching racially-charged criticism of the rapper's Trump alignment.

After the rapper's 1979 hit "Christmas Rappin'," his song "The Breaks" was the first rap single to go gold. In a rehearsal studio in the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, Kurtis Blow was limbering up and getting loose. Earlier this year, his left arm swelled up abruptly, requiring four surgeries to resolve what was eventually diagnosed as deep-vein thrombosis. Blow usually holds the mike in his right hand when he raps, but he had to get his left arm going, he said, "because it's my'Throw your hands in the air' arm." Lithe at age sixty-six, Blow was dressed in leather cargo pants, a track jacket, and a black baseball cap with the words " above its brim. He was whipping himself into shape for a "Legends of Hip-Hop" concert to be held just after Thanksgiving at the Peacock Theatre, in downtown L.A. He will be on a stage that will also feature such foundational rappers as Big Daddy Kane, Doug E. Fresh, and two members of the Furious Five, Melle Mel and Scorpio. Blow's youngest son, Michael, the studio's owner, manned the d.j. The rapper's eldest, Kurtis, Jr., nodded his do-ragged head to the beat and offered counsel alongside his mother, Kurtis, Sr.,'s wife of forty-two years, Shirley. It has been forty-five years since the release of Blow's song "The Breaks," the first rap single to be certified gold. Blow had already scored a novelty hit, "Christmas Rappin'," at the end of 1979, the watershed year in which rap transitioned from clubs in the Bronx and Harlem to singles pressed on vinyl, chief among them "Rapper's Delight," by the Sugarhill Gang. "I had a singles deal with escalating options," Blow recalled. "I had to sell thirty thousand records in order to do another single.

Combinatorial methods for learning general policies that solve large collections of planning problems have been recently developed. One of their strengths, in relation to deep learning approaches, is that the resulting policies can be understood and shown to be correct. A weakness is that the methods do not scale up and learn only from small training instances and feature pools that contain a few hundreds of states and features at most. In this work, we propose a new symbolic method for learning policies based on the generalization of sampled plans that ensures structural termination and hence acyclicity. The proposed learning approach is not based on SA T/ASP, as previous symbolic methods, but on a hitting set algorithm that can effectively handle problems with millions of states, and pools with hundreds of thousands of features. The formal properties of the approach are analyzed, and its scalability is tested on a number of benchmarks.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar's ongoing beef has left their devoted fans utterly divided over who's winning. The rappers have released several diss songs against each other and their fan bases are certain their team is winning. To try and strip biases out of the debate, we asked artificial intelligence chatbots who is winning the ongoing feud - and it produced some surprising insights. Three out of four AI chatbots remained politically correct when addressing which rapper is winning the beef, calling it'subjective' and saying it is up to the fans to decide. But Meta's AI bot said Kendrick had a slight edge in the beef so far. Gemini called Drake a'commercial powerhouse with numerous hit singles and albums that have topped the charts,' but said who is winning the feud remains subjective'Ultimately, the winner of the Drake versus Kendrick Lamar beef is subjective and depends on personal preference,' said DeepAI.

Elvis Presley's immersive concert experience is set to leave London all shook up, with an AI rendering of the king of rock'n'roll ready to enthral fans from November 2024. But this is not the first holographic performance – nor will it be the last. Here are some of the other artists whom technology has allowed to tour from beyond the grave, or as their younger selves. Abba's concert kicks off with a lithe and fresh-faced Benny Andersson reassuring the crowd: "This is really me. I just look very good for my age."

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Pras Michel of the Fugees is seeking a new trial by arguing his former lawyer used artificial intelligence to generate his closing argument before the hip-hop artist was found guilty of helping a foreign national launder millions of dollars in illegitimate contributions to former President Barack Obama's campaign. Michel was convicted in April after being accused of taking part in an extensive conspiracy to use about $88 million in foreign funds to engage in illegal back-channel lobbying and make unlawful campaign contributions at the direction of the People's Republic of China. He filed a motion on Monday asking the court for a new trial on all counts.

Duke law and philosophy professor and author Nita Farahany says the challenge for humans with quickly developing artificial intelligence is the ethical and legal constraints around it. Drake has amassed a collection of bras that would rival Victoria's Secret. The "Rich Flex" rapper shared a photo on his Instagram this week with a big smile and his arms spread wide in front of hundreds of bras of different styles, colors and sizes laid out on the floor like a lingerie store. "Remember when we both forgot who the f--- I was in unison…that wavelength was def a foolish one," he captioned the post. Rapper Jeleel commented, "bruh got a library full of bras."

Mere hours after the arrival of "Heart on My Sleeve," the AI-generated "Drake" song that went viral last spring, the doomsday projections began pouring in. The main reason the song generated so much buzz is that Drake is one of the world's most popular musicians. But part of what gave us pause is that hip hop--which celebrates its 50th birthday this week--is driven by a spontaneity that feels as authentically human as anything humans have ever come up with. That is, rap is a unique form of human language, and if AI can mimic that, maybe nothing is safe. If the future is already here, then the impacts of generative AI will be even greater in the next decades, especially when it comes to hip hop.

A bipartisan panel of voters weighed in on the future of artificial intelligence and growing concerns surrounding the potential dangers of the emerging technology. Rapper Ice Cube described Artificial Intelligence (AI) as being "demonic" during a recent interview and said there would be a "backlash" against it from "real people." "Full Send Podcast" host Kyle Foregeard asked Ice Cube about the industry now and what he does and doesn't like about it. "The artists are getting lost in auto-tunes, and now that you have an AI computer. I think people don't want a computerized rapper no more. They want to hear your voice. I don't know any rappers by their voice no more. I used to know all the rappers just on hear their voice. He added, "So, I think they need to figure out how to put that auto-tune down, and we need to hear what people sound like and if they're as good.