D.O.A.

About two months ago, the icon, Jay-Z, released his first single off  his upcoming album, the Blueprint 3. The song is entitled “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)”. Jay-Z is the first come out and put a stranglehold on the artificial use of the autotoner on almost every song currently especially in the game of Hip-Hop. It was not a direct cut on a particular artist but most new artists are using the autotuner to gain exposure. the use autotuner is so mainstream that is has almost taken control of the top music charts. Why is music that is changing upon a recording mechanism held in such high regard?

The artist T-Pain has become the involuntarily leader or first mainstream user of the autotuner with his style of music. Now almost every new song that becomes popular has all lyrics being autotuned or the hook is on autotuner. Pop music’s new trend is autotune. 4 out of the top 10 songs use autotuner in the recorded songs.  It is not the fact that autotuner is this evil empire, it simply talks away the creativity of music. This style allows potential artists to have hit songs because their songs fit in the new trend and makes their voice and music sound better than it is.

The song “D.O.A.” is a musician and hip-hop icon trying to save the integrity of what music is. The music scene follows more trends than women do fashion but especially in hip-hop. About 6 or 7 years ago crunk music was the latest scene. Then snap music followed that scene. Now we have artists who primarily survive on autotune because without it they do not have hit songs.  These primarily autotune artists cannot even perform live very well without. I’m sure even Lil Wayne would not want to hear himself sing “Lollipop” without autoner. Jay-Z is right he can come out with an album and totally be at the top of the rap game without it. The question is “Do you think Lil Wayne would have sold all those albums if “lollipop” was not an autotune hit, allowing all mainstream to become recognizable?” Lil Wayne is in the top 2 0r 3 best rap artists easily right now but autone did help him a little bit. So cheers to Mr. Hova from New York please state your mind on any song anytime.

The Lonely Island is on a boat with T-Pain

Oh yeah…. The Lonely Island is at it again with a new song entitled “I’m on a Boat feat. T-Pain”. Yes while T-Pain is yet on another song with the auto tuner, this new hit is hilarious. On The Lonely Island’s last song “Jizz in My Pants” there has been over 23 million hits on YouTube.  The reason I am writing another post on these funny guys are that their album is coming out Tomorrow. Their debut album is called “INCREDIBAD”. Instead of Jorma and Andy taking the vocals this time it’s Andy and Akiva as well as T-Pain. The entire video is actually on a boat in I’m pretty sure  Miami. The song is absolutely hilarious as well as the video but all you readers must realize that The Lonely Island is a real group. All their past songs and videos are unbelievably funny so this one goes without the doubt it’s a damn good follow-up to “Jizz in My Pants”. As for the other videos check out these two with just Akiva and Jorma with candids of Andy:

“Just 2 Guyz”

“We Like Sportz”

As for the lyrics in “I’m on a Boat” , I’m not copying all the lyrics for guys to read. I want to highlight the ones that are hilarious:

“I’m on a boat, bitch”

“I’m riding on a dolphin, doing flips and shit”

“I’m on a boat, motherfucker, don’t you ever forget”

“Fuck trees, I climb buoys, motherfucker”

Two hot songs from two Hip Hop Legends

This is DJ Khaled’s track from his new CD “Go Hard” which he uses a Rick Ross beat. But this song explodes with T-Pain’s crunk chorus and the lyricist himself Kanye West on this hit song. I cannot wait til this song blows up. Just give it time and it will be on every radio station in the world. This song is just truly out of this world.

I just saw this on my HD Palladia station from Jay-Z’s performance from this past year’s Glastonbury concert. It is the “Heart of the City” track by Jay-Z but rock outs to the music of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” The man who runs Rocafella mastered an unbelievable rendition of a great song with the ultimate rock legends U2.