In a surprising revelation, renowned musician and rapper Shaggy, born Orville Richard Burrell CD, shared the intriguing backstory behind his distinctive vocal style in a TikTok video on Saturday.

he said during an August teaser clip. The output, as the ICP rapper and his producer attested, was oddly formal and, for some reason, gay. "Shaggy here," the first version of the chatbot intoned.

As Utsler alludes during the talk, it wasn't his first time interfacing with AI Shaggy — and in a clip from earlier this year, he revealed that he actually trained it using his own voice. "Remember ...