It's May 23, 2024, 05:26:06 AM
Jay-Z is still fighting his noble (but way too late) battle against Auto-Tuning: in a recent interview, this is what he had to say:“I really wanted to have the conversation, like ‘are we just going to sound like each other? Everyone’s going to sound the same? That’s what we’re gonna do? Don’t ya’ll know this is dangerous? And this is just how rock and roll got pushed from the forefront?’ We did this to rock and roll. Everyone was doing the hair-band thing on MTV with the tight pants. They all had the big hair, just different colored tights. It just became about more of a look and a sound than the emotion of the music. And that’s what hip-hop’s becoming. It’s losing the emotion — you can’t have emotion in the robotic voice. I can’t feel anything!"
anybody hatin' on Jay for this or has something to say against Jay or what he was saying is a bitch. I feel both sides of the isle but I gotta side with Jay on this more. Have you heard "GoAtIt" by Bishop Lamont & Black Milk? That shit is sick and original (the original sickness). We need more Hip Hop like that. But I can't hate on some1 tryna make a club record and using AutoTune just to get some more sales. Hip Hop is everything, why take it out of the clubs, that's so important to our culture and I ain't just talkin' about Rap or the US, I'm talking about society. Besides only a few people really use this shit anyways, you either only hear that song from them or they drop 1 mixtape and u never hear from them again, it ain't like they don't have the ability to do tha shit again, well most anyways... Ron Browz, Jamie Foxx, T Pain, etc. Keep the music growing. You got "underground", "commercial", "rnb", "dance", "techno", and more versions of Hip Hop music. I say stop talking about the music and just keep it upfront, infront of Country and Rock bcuz it's bigger and it's gonna keep it bigger and more diverse. As long as u have 16 bars for a verse, a drum pattern with a sound and bass/sub, and 8 bars for a hook it's Hip Hop no matter what you're talking about. It can't die, it's infinite in everything bcuz it's everything.