Tupac Shakur's Estate Gives Drake 24 Hours To Remove 'Taylor Made Freestyle'

The estate of Tupac Shakur is threatening legal action against Canadian rapper Drake, who appeared to use artificial intelligence to simulate the late rapper’s voice on a diss track.

Shared Friday on Drake’s Instagram account, the track, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” was aimed at rapper Kendrick Lamar, whom Drake has been entwined in public rap beef with lately. It also included what appeared to be an AI-generated voice from rapper Snoop Dogg, as well as verses from Drake himself.

In the song, a fake Shakur can be heard taunting Lamar, rapping, “You asked for the smoke, now it seem you too busy for the smoke.”

As reported by Billboard on Wednesday, Shakur’s estate sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Drake, whose government name is Aubrey Graham, remove the freestyle from social media within 24 hours. Otherwise, the estate will go through with legal action.

“The Estate is deeply dismayed and disappointed by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and personality,” attorney Howard King wrote in the letter, according to Billboard. “Not only is the record a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights, it is also a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. The Estate would never have given its approval for this use.”

Drake’s track followed the release of rapper Future and producerMetro Boomin’s joint album, “We Don’t Trust You,” from last month, which features Lamar on a song called “Like That.”

On the song, Lamar rapped, “Motherfuck the big three, ni**a it’s just big me.”

The line pointed to and dismissed the unofficial “big three of hip-hop” category that many rap fans often put Lamar, Drake and J. Cole in. Lamar also rapped other lines on the song that