DJ Khaled, Soulja Boy and Others Talk About Jay-Z’s Song “D.O.A”

Tons of rappers have come out to speak about Jay-Z’s newest released track, “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-tune).” The track slams artists who are using auto-tune saying that only artists like Kanye West, T-Pain and Lil  Wayne should be doing it.

DJ Khaled said of the track, “It’s an amazing record. Jay-Z is one of the best in the game. Shout to Jay-Z for shouting me out [on the record]. I salute that, you feel me? I mean, music is music, you know what I’m saying? He ain’t dissing nobody, he’s just saying it’s overdone. He shouted brothers like T-Pain that’s supposed to do it.”

Soulja Boy seems to think that Jay was telling everyone not to use it. He says, “That’s a crazy track. I know it’s gon’ stir up a lot of controversy, but Jay-Z is one of the best so a lot of people gon be tuned into it, man. I don’t know what to say about that one. If people [will] stop using it, I don’t know, man? T-Pain, his whole thing is Auto-Tune, so you asking you think it’ll end T-Pain’s career?”

T-Pain even says that the release of this song has made his label decided to push up the release of his album. It was originally supposed to be released in September of next year, but they moved the date to November of this year. Craziness! He also says that Jay-Z’s track has made him want to continue doing auto-tune.  It’s amazing to see how they feel about it. I personally think it’s a great track and I agree that auto-tune should be limited. When you just start using it for no reason and you don’t do it well, it loses it’s point.

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