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AI music is either the end of “real art” or the start of a new creative era, depending on who you ask. We sit down with our day-one friend Ed “Bujay” Young (also known as Bling Young) to get past the hot takes and into the actual process of making songs with generative AI tools like Suno, plus the real reasons people are so split on it.

Bujay is a songwriter and jewelry maker from Inkster, Michigan, and he breaks down how AI went from a quick experiment to a serious creative outlet. We talk about what’s actually human in an AI-assisted track: the lyrics, the musical direction, the ear for arrangement, and the discipline to revise instead of flooding the world with half-baked uploads. We also get into the “AI slop” problem, why some tracks feel too polished, and how listening habits from years of crate digging still matter when the “band” is a machine.

Then the conversation turns personal and heavy in the best way. Bujay shares the story behind “Crossover,” a memorial song and video made for a family after a devastating loss, and why emotion and sincerity don’t disappear just because AI is part of the workflow. We also talk AI video generation, bias and stereotypes in outputs, labeling requirements, and why fears about job loss and superintelligence get tangled up with debates about music and entertainment.

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