Hosts: Niquita J (TT|@Niquitinha_), Kevin Rodrigues (TT|@shaikhkev), Yuvir Pillay (TT| @sketchybongo_official)
Show: Thinking Out Cloud – a conversation about how tech (especially AI) is messing with culture, music and the hustle.
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In this first episode, the crew sit down in Dubai and ask the question a lot of artists are low-key panicking about:
Is AI killing music, or just changing who gets to make it?

They get into:
Why there’s suddenly so much mid AI music on the timeline?
The difference between “press one button” AI songs and actually using AI in a creative process?
How @shaikhkev has been making AI-assisted tracks from his own lyrics and family stories?|
Where producers like @sketchybongo_official are already using AI (demo vocals, mastering, workflow)?
What makes albums like To Pimp a Butterfly or Songs in the Key of Life feel “human” and if tech can ever touch that?
The messy part: copyright, training data, major labels, and who should get paid when AI learns from recorded music?
Access and education – from bedroom artists in South Africa to anyone trying to understand their rights in this new wave?

If you care about music, creator economics or just want to understand what AI is actually changing (beyond the headlines), this is the ground-floor conversation.

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