Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore
The Verge Terrence O’Brien ● Covered by 2 sources
LA rapper Fenix Flexin now says he never denied using AI on his hit song 'Rubberz.' That's a big walk-back after he told a radio host point blank there was 'no AI on it.'
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Fenix Flexin has finally stopped fighting the obvious. After weeks of denials, the LA rapper responded to an Instagram commenter who brought up Tyga's own admission of AI use on his 80s-inspired album $tarface, and Fenix used the moment to reframe his own story entirely. He wrote that he never said he didn't use AI, only that it had nothing to do with the recording process, and claimed he didn't even know what the app was until the song was already mixed and people started commenting on it.
That account sits awkwardly next to what he told Kazeem Famuyide on Hot 97's Mornings With Mero last month. Asked directly whether AI was involved, Fenix said flatly that there was no AI on the track. Since then he and his team have gone further than a simple denial, posting what they said were session files from the recording, insisting in comment sections that the song came together with two people singing live in his living room using nothing more exotic than Pro Tools, Auto-Tune, and some reverb. He even pushed back on clips that looked like lip syncing, saying he was actually singing.
The pressure campaign didn't come out of nowhere. Producer Medasin posted videos pointing to Treblo, an AI music tool formerly known as Sonauto, as the source of the track. Treblo didn't just get name-dropped, either. The company built and released an AI detector, and that detector flags Rubberz as Treblo-made, which is about as direct a rebuttal to Fenix's earlier claims as it gets.
What's notable now is the tone shift. Fenix isn't apologizing or explaining away a misunderstanding. He's arguing that using AI is simply keeping up with the times, and that anyone who has a problem with it is the one falling behind. It's a defense that only works if you ignore the very specific, very human story he told on the radio just weeks earlier.
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Nobody minds artists using new tools, but Fenix wants credit for embracing AI and credit for lying about it convincingly enough to fool a radio host. Pick one. If the industry keeps treating 'never said I didn't' as a legitimate defense after a flat-out denial, expect a lot more musicians to test how far that loophole stretches.
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