Is BBL Drizzy AI?

Yes, the original BBL Drizzy is an AI-generated song, with human-written lyrics. Comedian Willonius Hatcher, known online as King Willonius, wrote the words and used the AI music generator Udio to make the rest: Billboard reported that the vocals, melody and instrumental were all generated by Udio. The singer you hear doesn't exist.

The version that went viral is Metro Boomin's beat, which samples Hatcher's song. Our AI song checker gave the original an Unclear on November 2, 2026, a cautious answer on a song whose origin is not in doubt. The details are below.

Hatcher released BBL Drizzy on April 14, 2024, in the middle of the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud. The idea came from a Rick Ross post joking that Drake looked like he had a Brazilian butt lift. Hatcher wrote the lyrics and generated the song in Udio, which turned them into a vintage soul track with a singer who never existed.

He has been clear about the split. He told Billboard it is a misconception that AI wrote BBL Drizzy, and told Fortune that he is a comedy writer, not a musician or producer. Without AI, he told Fortune, he would have needed a '70s solo singer, a band and a studio; he told WLRN he would have completely missed the moment. WLRN described the same process: Hatcher put in the lyrics and a series of prompts, and the software helped him arrange the singing, composition and production.

On May 5, 2024, Metro Boomin released an instrumental called BBL Drizzy on SoundCloud that samples Hatcher's song, and offered a free beat and $10,000 for the best verse over it. Billboard reported that Metro was not aware the track he sampled was AI-generated, and called it the first notable use of an AI-generated sample.

Drake himself later rapped over the BBL Drizzy instrumental on Sexyy Red's U My Everything. According to Fortune, Drake and Sexyy Red's lawyers cleared the human-written lyrics with Hatcher's lawyers, and he received an advance plus a share of the publishing. A Vanderbilt law professor told Fortune that a song created completely with AI is public domain, which is why the lyrics, written by a person, were the part that needed clearing.

Spotify took down the original BBL Drizzy after it had passed 2.6 million listens, WLRN reported on May 16, 2024. Hatcher said he didn't know why, and Spotify did not respond to WLRN's request for comment, while remixes and sampled versions stayed up.

On November 2, 2026, the King Willonius profile we found on Spotify, one of several profiles under that name, had 290,838 monthly listeners and an AI Persona badge that reads Likely AI Persona when tapped: Spotify applied it because signals suggest the profile's public identity may be AI-generated. Hatcher himself is a real comedian who has given interviews; Spotify says the badge concerns the identity a profile presents, its name and imagery, not how the music was made. A streaming platform also labels the BBL Drizzy single, and two other King Willonius releases that include versions of it, as containing AI-generated content. Our guide to Spotify's AI label explains the two kinds of badge.

We checked the original BBL Drizzy on the live site on November 2, 2026, typing in the song and artist; the checker used Apple Music's official preview. The answer was Unclear.

The signals split. The spectral fingerprint scored 0.87 out of 1, the second audio model scored below 0.01, and deep detection returned a human-like signal. The card did show the streaming platform's AI label on the single, but labels are supporting evidence, so with the audio models disagreeing the checker didn't call it Likely AI.

We count this as a miss: BBL Drizzy is AI-generated by its creator's own account, and our checker didn't say so. The accuracy report shows how often each signal misses.

So, is BBL Drizzy AI? Yes for the music and the voice, no for the lyrics, and that mix is now common. Many AI acts start with a person writing words and a generator doing the rest, like Xania Monet and other acts on our list of AI artists.

It also shows how far an AI song can travel unnoticed: from a comedian's lyrics and prompts to a Metro Boomin beat to a Drake verse, while the producer who sampled it didn't know the voice was synthetic. To check a song yourself, start with the guide to telling if a song is AI.

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Comedian Willonius Hatcher, known as King Willonius, wrote the lyrics and generated the song with Udio in April 2024. Metro Boomin then sampled it for his BBL Drizzy beat.

No. Billboard reported that the vocals, melody and instrumental were all generated by Udio.

No. Billboard reported that Metro was not aware the track he sampled was AI-generated.

Not reliably. On November 2, 2026 it returned Unclear for the original, because its audio signals disagreed, even though the song is AI-generated.