Factory New/ Capitol Records
(Picture: press shot)Last month an AI rapper called FN Meka was dropped by Capitol Records, a mere ten days after it was signed. The project had been launched in 2019, amassing 1 billion views on Tik Tok and half a million Spotify followers – key lures for labels.
It was created by Factory New, and its co-founders Anthony Martini and Brandon Le. Capitol whipped up the usual publicity for the signing. But there was a problem – the whole thing was, at best, rather racially insensitive.
