Fenix Flexin Puts Bankrolls On The Table And AI On The Charts

Welcome to https://defector.com/category/listening-habits" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently.

Music's AI revolution has arrived, somewhat... maybe.

And naturally, it has come for rap first.

This isn't the kind of trumped up thing like what has been foretold in the like 100 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">weirdly written profiles about "AI actress" Tilly Norwood, a thing you've probably already forgotten about if you ever even heard about it in the first place.

No, AI has been implemented in music production software and it has officially gotten a real foot in the door of pop culture thanks to a very strange, very viral new hit song.