Death of Auto-Tune: Jay-Z Wages War

Music mogul Jay-Z continues to make headlines as he blasted auto-tunes and singing rappers on his debut single from his Blueprint 3 album that was released Friday, June 5. Produced by Kanye West and No I.D., Hova’s new single “DOA (Death of Auto-Tune)” is the first track from the auto-tune-free album that will be released Sept. 11, 2009 on Roc Nation. Auto-tune is the process of a singer having their voice aided in a studio by a computer program that automatically corrects their voice if they hit a wrong note. The official radio single will be titled “Off That” and features new rap sensation Drake. -soul goddess

Here are a few of the tracks:

“Only rapper to re-write history without a pen/No I.D. on the track let the story begin, begin, begin/This is anti-auto-tune/Death of the ringtone/This ain’t for iTunes/This ain’t for sing-a-longs/This is [Frank] Sinatra at the opera/ Bring a blonde, preferably with a fat a– who can sing a song/Wrong, this ain’t politically correct/This might offend my political connects/My raps don’t have melodies … Get your chain token/May do it myself, I’m so Brooklyn/I know we facin’ a recession, but the music y’all makin’ gon’ make it the Great Depression/Or your lack of aggression/Pull your skirt back down …[Kanye] ‘Ye told me to kill y’all to keep it 100 … This is death of auto-tune, moment of silence.”

click to listen to Jay-Z:
DOA