12/19/2025
I don’t know man, the forbidden fruit (a.i.) is looking real good 🤷🏾♂️
Couldn’t fall asleep, which meant it was time to make music, but instead of Ableton, I finally looked up Suno on a whim.
In 5 minutes I made an account, copied over the lyrics from a song I wrote back in 2014 while on a working party in Japan setting up a festival for locals to visit our base, and added a few sentences briefly describing the idea for the song.
Not ten seconds later, I had four songs sitting in front of me.
I wasn’t expecting anything but an opportunity to hear the lyrics performed for the first time by a voice besides my own compressed with voice note recordings on my phone. The vocals are not recited in the style that I planned to eventually have people perform them in, but I do like the new direction.
Same feelings on the actual track production, but considering half of my own songs get rewritten into new genres once or twice depending on how long I sit on the idea, I’m not put off by it leaning more towards deep soul vibes than hip groove. I mean the song was originally written as a hip hop track before I shifted it to house, so what’s another detour?
Anyway, here are clips of the first four tracks I “made(?)” with ai.
I haven’t looked around the rest of the site yet, but it looks like there’s an option to extract the stems. Five minutes of fun wasn’t enough for me, so I think I’m going to pull the stems from all four of these, have a few more hours of fun messing around with them, and release and EP that I’ll under a pseudonym as an ai side project.
I like the name Ai Sharpton, but maybe it’ll be something a little less on the nose and a little more on brand.
I don’t know…as a DJ and someone who initially learned to produce with sound presets, pre-recorded loops, and samples, Suno really doesn’t feel too different from making music that way. Sure, no one is getting paid for the samples or plugins it’s emulating, but I don’t know a single producer that didn’t start out by ripping bootleg samples and using a cracked version of a DAW or VSTs. Kanye got caught at the peak of his career using a cracked bass plugin (Serum), and the gave him a GRAMMY… 🤷🏾♂️
