When your 40 you can only relate 2 40 year olds I would buy a tpain record b4 jay everyone who once listened 2 jay is now 40 as well and r doing better things with there time like raising there kids im 23 n I hope once im 40 im still not following hip hop unless im getting paid 2 my moms 54 and I never see here online checking 2 see what patti label is doing now n hatting on ciara or sumthing u had ur time now let it go ….u old niggas just grow up n stop being an old haters

gslim you that post was really stupid, I pay to go to a Jigga concert, I wouldnt even take free T-pain tickets

He does have a point about the autotune and how people need to keep it diverse

now for gslim… a contradiction such as yours should get posted on the hall of fame of contradictions

im not buying teddy riley’s tickets even if they was free oops my bad i met t pain tickets i rather see teddy honestly….but man listen im 25 i been listening to jay since i was in my early mid teens so how this dude say no one listens to jay accept 40 year olds its beyond me! i dont even know why would you comment something like that its ridiculous!

hip hop needs regulators like jigga..just like when biggie ended kwame and polka dots..if u dont have that regulation your gonna have a whole bunch of foolishness in the game that doesnt belong there (i.e. Ron Browz)

slim u stoopid as H@LL, im 22 listening to jigga since i was like 14 or so u sound lame

Jay-Z is an icon boo, T-pain needs to sit his computerized sounding ass down. He is a clown for real.

I CAN’T BELIEVE T PAIN IS ONLY 23…HE LOOKS 40 TO ME
HAHA
AGE AINT S**T BUT A NUMBER..COME ON NOW
AND THAT INTERVIEW WAS PRETTY FUNNY..AND REAL

I was there for that whole event that was definitely a memorable performance. summer jam ’09 was the s**t!!

Dont know why JayZ is frontin like that. He just mad cause T Pain on EVERYTHING with Autotune…and he aint poppin. Even his autotune song aint that hot..nice lyrics..but nothing legendary or i would play in my car…

I was there for the whole event also. I don’t think Jay has any issues with T Pain death of Auto tune Jay is coming after rappers who uses it that basically singing in rap songs minus lil wayne and kanye. I appreciate with both artist do but no lie Jay had everyone in the stadium standing making noise. T Pain performed for like 30 minutes and compared to Jay Z 5 to 10 minutes of performing lets just say Jay killed it and T pain and all the other rappers is just not on his level yet

There someone goes with the “hater” comment. Seriously, why must Jay-z be hater when the man is actually making perfect sense. Is everyone who makes an opinion that someone else doesn’t like considered a hater?

LMAO!!!! Jigga doesn’t respect T-Pain at all.

man people need to be honest about things…who wants to keep hearing auto tune on every damn thing you hear on radio and video…aint no hating just someone keepin it 100 about it…im getting real tired of it myself…let t-pain, kanye and wayne do they thing with it and all these other rappers PLEASE find another way to get into the game,let’s be original and not piggyback someone else PLEASE…

Jayz telling like it is

I AM NOT EVEN A J FAN BUT THE DUDES GOT A POINT HE THE AUTO TUNE S**T IS GETTING OLD

Anybody that thinks Kanye West and Lil Wayne sound good on autotune needs to have there ears checked. Wayne is a very taleneted artist but his voice isn’t suited for AT at all. Check out the remix for I can’t believe it with T-Pain and Justin Timberlake. White boy s**ts all over Weezy. And Ye nigga done lost his mind since his mom passed. Go bak to usin ya’ll regular voices.

That nigga is a chameleon – he looks 18 with neyo and like a 48 year old sugardaddy with rihanna – He looks like whoever he is with at tha time – I dont know how he does it but it works.

I too hate autotune but i do not think that it is the battle he is fighting right now, He is just pissed that he is getting out staged by young untalented beat makers, and that is so sad, it’s like as soon as someone is getting shine beyonce or jay-z need to step in and diss someone damn how immature, there is room in there for everyone why would a well established entertainer like him diss those newbies? Seriously he and his wife deserve themselves, i swear i thought that with all that fame and power they have they would feel secure enough not to attack others, first diva now this whack death of auto tune song? Wow shows that no matter how much money someone have it does not equal to their amount of confidence…

I think some of you aren’t getting it. Jay isn’t dissing T-Pain. He’s dissing rappers. Jay is saying that T-Pain popularized autotune and T-Pain is a Rnb artist not a rapper. I actually think Jay even respects T-Pain as a great producer along with Kanye whom T-Pain gave Kanye permission to use the autotune and showed him how to do it properly. Jay knows Kanye did autotune and took it to another level exactly what T-Pain expected because T-Pain respects Kanye a high level producer as himself. What Jay is going after is rappers using autotune to cover up bad mic skills. That would be lil Wayne not T-Pain. In my opinion, T-Pain is just like most artists he’s sensitive and took it that Jay meant him. But if you check the lyrics out Jay is speaking of rappers not T-Pain whom is a talented and gifted producer and songwriter performer! Get it right guys there’s very little room for confusion here!

Well i really dont think the song DOA is hot i just think the lyrics speak volumes. Auto tune has been done well by artists such as T-pain and Kanye but lil Wayne just sounds like he’s crying on a record and frankly he’s not really one of my favorite artists so it becomes irritating to hear his auto tuned voice on a record i think he should still to conventional rap cuz it is what he was known for i can honestly say i preferred him with cash money

autotune is made for people that cant sing or there young and still working on there voice……everyone acts like autotune is a talent…..its really not anyone on this plant can autotune.

Autotune is like scratching and beating boxing back in the day it’s a good extra effect. It’s good for a few songs but niggaz is doing it like it’s an art form. Lol. T-Pain is dope without autotune and so is Kanye. Lil is the one over doing it. Jay was taking bout Wayne not T-Pain and he certainly isn’t talking bout Kanye because Kanye beside T-Pain freaked the autotune out to a higher level. Wayne does weak and uses it as a crutch that’s what Jigga is talking about.

ummm, have ya’ll heard T-Pain “sing” without autotune??? horrendous

It still goes to show you can’t make good music without jacking OH10 flavor…It has been used out of content for the last few years with these non-talented “entertainers”. I have say T-Pain has done a good job bringing it back but it has gone way over board. I have warned and I shall warn again… There will be collections every time someone hit our city’s for tours. Niccas are broke as it is and the world continues to steal from us…what do you think the ultimate outcome will be..yall know Ohioans have done it for less…We about to tune your voices in a minute…look out for “Bruze Kensington” myspace.com/gemcitygiants the future..pretty soon yall going be jacking our nicca Kudi Kid cause yall don’t have orginal flavor…in other words no talent suckas…

No auto tune was derived by two-woman that Roger Troutman new one being my mother in the late seventies…he found a way for those that couldn’t sing in those days yet Roger could sing better than most artist today. Nothing like beat boxing…etc. Thus came “Computer love” in the early eighties…because we are futuristic people. Un-none to the world OH10 is a jacking grown for the industry because we make something new in the Midwest period let alone OH10…Twister..Bone…MC Breed..The Brat…Marshall Mathers… Cameron..and the list will go on for ever. We are orginators not duplicators. By the way Bow WoW stop repping you are not us…you are a jacker boy…

Ok… Umm. You are correct. Rodger Troutman did start that. I used to live in Dayton, about 1 mile from his studio and was living there when he got shot 10 years ago. I was stationed there. However! Dayton USED TO BE a place for music. Shirley Murdock, Zapp, and the rest of Ohio was on point WAAAAAAAY BACK IN THE DAY! It’s not about anything now. Stop living in the past man! What have they done lately? Nada. Oh. Avant. But that’s it.

What is Jay Z doing that’s so original he can criticize T Pain

I love jayz this nigga is on point, I’m tired bs so called rap to day using weak ass autunes it sounds gay azz hell.I see why little Wayne uses autotunes since “Gillie tha Kid” don’t ghost write for him anymore. Get back rap f****ts fuk south music, I rep north!!!!

Jay is NOT dissing anybody, he is just saying he cares about the music too much to let it be watered down the way it is now. Without the auto-tune, t-pain sounds horrible, i agree.

JAY-Z is a BEAST!!! SIMPLE AS THAT..

Yeah lets all hop on the autotune hate train with jay_z
He’s a hater he aint had a clubbanger in hella years and now he hatin on niggas gettin money nobody hated on his joe camel ass in his hey day and he,s a b***h for saying he didn’t notice t pain he only had big ass chain on from his shoulders to his knees,jay dissapointing me ur fading jay auto tune done right sounds amazing it makes regular singing sound boring it,s entertaining the only singer that gets play with out autotune is neyo so people dnt be followers let ur ears be the judje

I do like rap and hip hop. I also have several Jay-Z cds. Let’s be real back in the 60′s, 70′s and early 80′s you had to be able to sing or play an instrument. None of the people in this article would have been on stage.

This is Saleem 101. This why the rest of the country can’t stand arrogant fools up north. The south is killing all those clowns up north. You not a true fan of hip hop dissin the south. You should be a fan of hip hop no matter what region you reside. This is why other parts of the country can’t stand that garbage that comes from up there. There are some good rappers up north and they know who they are and there are garbage ass rappers too. Stop hattin on the south and get a grip clown.

a lot of cats talkin bout only 40 year old people listen to jay-z ,but i’m 23 and would still pay 4 a jay-z concert ticket before I would buy a t-pain concert ticket.I guess niggas is just different breeds some like real niggas music I.E Bigg,Pac,Ugk,8ball&MJG,etc..n others like that watered down s**t they here today. I feel to each his or her own cause it’s all about the money.

Y’all people are so ignorant… What Jay Z said was totally RIGHT. It had nothin ta do with south rappers and he right about everyone doin the same thing, it gets played out and old.. I don’t wanna hear everyone gettin the autotune thing goin.. Be honest, I hate Kanye and Wayne doin it, T Pain is an ONLY EXCEPTION that I’ve had for it. He wasn’t dissin T Pain, he was bein real. Had nothing ta do with north or south so stop makin it that, cause u showin ya ignorance by doin that. Oh, and I’m a Cali dude so, yeah I’m neutral. Jay z doesn’t need club hits either, he makes BOSS music, but just fa the record, niggaz ta the day hear Give it ta me, and still go crazy and sing the lyrics.. Good music doesn’t have a timeline. This stanky leg and jerkin music is WACK. Just what it is.
-M Allen

This is why arrogant fools from up north have so much to say about idiots from down south like delmikotaylor. What the hell does that song have to do with the South. If anything Jay Z was giving props to T Pain by saying everyone is T Paining it. See people like delmikotaylor give the south a bad name. He didn’t hear the song or listen to the interview. Uh when you say the South is killing the north in Hip Hop, are you talking about in the South? Yeah right because it doesn’t look that way from this arrogant fool from up north. I even listen to some stuff from down south, but like I said I don’t see it that way. Only people in the South see it that way.

you all need 2 stop the south is hustling nothing wrong wit that but really doe how much auto azz can u stand lil wanye is dogging the s**t, its tired now t pains the only 1 that has skillz wit da s**t north niggas dont need it we have real talent and we sell to real folks not wanna be azz white boys and the south should know but tryin to sell recordz make them do anything

Hip Hop is not Rap Music, The s**t you all listen to now, is garbage. from the south to the North From lil boosie to Fabolous it all sounds the same and all full of Fake ass Studio Actors backed by a bunch of greedy White and blacks devils so miss me with the debated if you are not over 30 you do not know what real hip Hop Is, they shoud hang all of them Bojangle ass Niggas in a Tree! in the Words of NYOIL “all you fake wannbe gansta ya’ll all need to be lenched!”
and Eye rep H-town and still don’t listen to none of that s**t.
Bring Real Hip Hop Back!

I’m a glad someone put this “autotune” to rest. This has been long overdue.
Music is music regardless of how you look at it. South, West, East or whatever. The music that everyone hears on the radio is “dumbing” down the youth everywhere.
Most artist aren’t in control of the content that is put out by these companies. That makes most artist puppets to the masses. And the radio station distributes the garbage as the next hottest thing and drills a song 2 – 3 times in an hour. I still listen to the radio every now and then to tune in so I have an idea of what everybody is listening to. HipHop embodies a culture and actually educates as it entertains it’s listeners.

Aye ChronicSoul999 I could care less what your opinion is.
Real Rap has been here for a while. I listen to Hip Hop all the time and I’m 18 years old. I like dudes like Joell Ortiz, Immortal Technique,NaS, Little Wayne, Joe Budden, Crooked I, Eminem,Royce Da 5’9, NoCanDo, Pharaoh Monch, AceYalone and plenty of others.

My People…Check this out…U shouldn’t care what “tool” is used to make the music, only that the music is being made. I’m old enough to remember when “THE INDUSTRY” said that RAP wasn’t gonna last. It did! Now it’s the most powerful force in music. And guess what? It’s RULED by “Young Black People.” A lot of these cats would be in jail or dead if they wasn’t get’n PAID making music. Jay-Z, 50, Lil Wayne…all of’em are BRILLIANT MILLIONIARES…they learned the game and now they playin it.

Check this…a certain Tobacco company makes different brands of cigarettes…some are called Marlboros and some are called KOOLS. Now the people that smoke KOOLS live a different lifestyle from the people smoking Marlboros and the people smoking Marlboros wouldn’t be caught dead smoking KOOLS…BUT…both products are really the same thing—TOBACCO! Sold by THE SAME company.

This just goes to show you how SMART these Rappers are. They doing HIGH LEVEL marketing on y’all and y’all don’t even know it. So…just SHUT THE F**K UP and support the music YOU like…who cares what “tool” is used…as long as RAP / Hip-Hop continues to provide an outlet for our youth to get paid…KEEP BUYING!!!!!!!!

LOL @ the damn title. Autotune has it’s moments but overkill is when it’s DEAD. And Chronic said all I needed to hear.

I dig what he’s saying fa’ real. They are killin’ the auto tune. Granted some of the songs are hot, but people just wearin’ out. Also, what Jigga tryna do…”the 50 Cent” …come out wit’ somethin’ new and dog what the youngin’s doin’ now. “OL FISH EYED FOOL” LOL LOL LET THOSE PEOPLE KEEP GETTIN’ THERE MONEY LEGALLY PER AUTO TUNE! AMEN. ;-)

***CORRECTION*** …”but people just wearin’ IT out” ***CORRECTION*** “let those peole keep gettin’ THEIR money” ;-) done