I don’t know if anyone watches Attack of The Show on G4, but one of the hosts, Kevin, made a music video making fun of Kanye West and his use of autotune on his latest album, 808’s and Heartbreak and it got me thinking about the state of modern (mainstream) hip-hop and just how shitty it really has gotten. I’ve embedded the video above, it’s not bad, very well made, there’s definitely a low blow towards the end and as much as I despise Kanye West it might have been a little much, but whatever.
I think we can all blame T-Pain for this latest influx of retarded hip-hop artists that think using auto tune to change the pitch of your voice makes them sound better. If you can’t sing in the first place auto tune isn’t going to help, you should just quit now. Ok, so when T-Pain (or maybe Akon) first started doing it a few years ago it wasn’t that bad. Just another interesting gimmick to try to save mainstream hip-hop from dying. I didn’t mind Akon as much as I hated T-Pain. What the fuck is up with his stupid hats, hair, retarded glasses, he looks like a broke ass George Clinton. He’s featured on every single hip-hop record that comes out… kinda like Lil Wayne. I think Lil Wayne, T-Pain and Akon should just guest spot on Kanye’s next album, just to keep all of these auto tune loving jackasses out of the rest of radio music. The record would basically sound like static mixed with that noise you get through your speakers when you put your cell phone too close to it… garbage. At least that way all the garbage would be in one place and wouldn’t contaminate everything else.
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