Doja Cat has taken an unsolicited swipe at her former collaborator Tyga over his use of artificial intelligence on his new album, $TARFACE.
During a livestream Wednesday, Doja offered a blunt assessment of the rapper’s decision to incorporate AI into the project.
“Nobody asked me anything about Tyga, but I felt like saying this,” she said before calling him “a penis for making an AI album.”
The comment lands as Tyga faces growing criticism surrounding $TARFACE, including a rare 0.0 rating from Pitchfork. But there is an important distinction in the AI debate: Tyga has said the technology was used as a production tool, while maintaining that he wrote the songs and performed the vocals himself.
Doja Cat did not appear to be responding to a direct question about Tyga when she brought him up during her livestream.
Instead, she volunteered her opinion on the rapper’s latest project and his decision to use AI in its production.
“Nobody asked me anything about Tyga, but I felt like saying this,” Doja said.
Her conclusion was blunt: “Tyga is a penis for making an AI album.”
The remark immediately adds another layer to the controversy surrounding $TARFACE, which has already attracted attention because of Tyga’s public admission that AI was used during the project’s creation.
In an interview with VIBE published earlier this month, Tyga acknowledged that he and his team “definitely used AI as a tool.” He compared the technology’s arrival in music to Auto-Tune, arguing that artists have historically adopted new technology despite initial resistance.
Tyga has since clarified that he does not consider $TARFACE an entirely AI-created album.
During an appearance on TMZ Live, he said AI was used for elements including 1980s-inspired synthesizers and some guitar solos, while he wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals himself.
That clarification matters because the phrase “AI album” can suggest that artificial intelligence generated the entire project, which is not how Tyga has described the process.
Still, the controversy has not stopped critics from taking aim at the record.
Pitchfork awarded $TARFACE a 0.0 rating in a review by Drew Millard, describing the project in extremely negative terms. The publication’s review also criticized the role of AI in the album’s creation.
The score has become part of the album’s story, but Doja Cat’s comments bring the criticism from music reviews into celebrity territory.
And that hits differently because Doja and Tyga are not strangers.
Doja Cat and Tyga previously worked together on two songs.
They joined forces on the 2019 remix of “Juicy,” one of Doja’s early breakout-era records, before collaborating again on “Freaky Deaky” in 2022.
That history makes Doja’s latest comment more notable than criticism coming from a completely unrelated artist.
Tyga’s $TARFACE project represents a significant creative shift for the rapper, who has described the $TARFACE persona as a separate artistic identity with its own aesthetic.
The project leans heavily into an ’80s-inspired sound, and Tyga has defended the experimentation as part of his creative evolution.
His position is that AI is one of the tools available to modern artists.
Doja Cat’s comment suggests she is far less accepting of that approach, at least when it comes to Tyga’s project.
The disagreement also lands during a much larger debate over artificial intelligence in music, with artists and critics continuing to argue over creativity, authorship and the role technology should play in the recording process.
The Doja Cat-Tyga exchange is bigger than a single insult because it touches one of music’s most contentious current debates: how much AI is too much AI?
Tyga sees AI-assisted production as another technological development artists can incorporate into their creative process, comparing it with the once-controversial arrival of Auto-Tune.
Critics, meanwhile, have questioned whether AI-assisted music compromises the human creativity and authenticity traditionally associated with songwriting and production.
Pitchfork’s 0.0 review intensified that conversation around $TARFACE, while Doja’s blunt reaction gave the debate a very different kind of headline.
For Tyga, the album remains an experiment in sound and technology.
For Doja, apparently, that experiment crossed a line.
The criticism comes amid broader public and critical attention surrounding Tyga’s use of AI on $TARFACE.
Pitchfork’s review gave the project its rare 0.0 score, while Tyga has pushed back against the characterization of the album as entirely AI-generated.
Tyga has also responded directly to Doja Cat, saying he still loves her while criticizing her recent work by calling it a “demonic album.”
That response keeps the exchange from being a one-sided jab — and gives this former collaboration a fresh twist.
Despite the sharp language, the dispute is rooted in a creative question that artists across the industry are increasingly being forced to confront.
Technology is changing how music can be produced, while artists continue to debate where experimentation ends and human authorship begins.
Tyga has embraced AI-assisted production as part of his creative process.
Doja Cat, at least judging from her livestream comments, clearly does not share his enthusiasm for that approach.
Their history of working together makes the disagreement particularly interesting: two artists who once shared records are now publicly on opposite sides of a major music-industry debate.
Doja Cat has made her position on Tyga’s AI-assisted $TARFACE crystal clear, while Tyga is standing by his use of the technology and his own creative role in the album. The former collaborators may agree on the music they once made together — but AI has them singing very different tunes now.
