News Mar 13, 2026

“All I hear is ‘Auto-Tune sucks’, ‘drum machines have no soul’ and ‘you can’t make hip-hop on a laptop because computers have no swing’”: Flying Lotus on the backlash against AI music – and why he's staying out of it

FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar

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“All I hear is ‘Auto-Tune sucks’, ‘drum machines have no soul’ and ‘you can’t make hip-hop on a laptop because computers have no swing’”: Flying Lotus on the backlash against AI music – and why he's staying out of it