A$AP Rocky Has a Very Diplomatic Stance on AI in Music: ‘Who Am I to Say What’s Standard’

Don’t be dumb: A$AP Rocky won’t be using AI in his music anytime soon.

The rapper spoke to Complex on Wednesday (Oct.

14) about AI in hip-hop, and while he prefers to create “practically,” he does see how it can be a useful tool when recording.

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Say if there’s a song that’s already out from, say, Kanye’s Graduation.

Let’s say ‘Good Morning,’ you want to take Kanye’s lyrics off, but you want the instrumental,” he said.

“Not that you can’t just find the instrumental online, but say it was hard to find the instrumental; what you could easily do is use AI to split the stems and take away his vocals so that you could actually rap on it.” Rocky continued: “AI has a lot of negative connotations.

I don’t think when it’s used in certain ways that it’s necessarily a right or wrong thing.

AI is supposed to be a tool in that sense.

If somebody does a totally AI-generated song where all they did was prompt something, then I think that that’s their thing.

But who am I to say what’s standard and what’s not? I’m just doing me out here, and I’m doing my music practically — the right way.

I’m really tapping with musicians, producers, beat makers, just to convey my sound and develop my sound.” The Harlem rapper took note of his hip-hop peers such as Fenix Flexin and Tyga , who drew severe backlash after admitting to using AI in their music.

“I feel like when guys like [Fenix Flexin], whatever his name is, and Tyga — I don’t know their process of how they make it, but I know when they made it, they caught a lot of backlash and s–t like that,” the 38-year-old added.

Fenix Flexin initially denied using AI, but made a U-turn and embraced the technology on his hit “Rubberz,” which became the first fully AI-produced song to make the Billboard Hot 100 earlier in 2026, where it peaked at No.