The Manual: Autotune... To Use Or Not To Use?

The Controversy around this plug in right now is insane, Alot of people feel a certain way... Some of the Purist/"Real Hip Hop" Community Are completely against it... Alot of The More Mainstream heads Are Completely for it and dont see what the big deal is, but I think Theres More to It, than what people Are currently looking at, and nobody has really attempted to take a close look at what all the "Fuckin' Fussins For (Because I'm Grubbin More... and I Pack Heat... Like the Oven Door") Aite, now on one end... you have a group of people that are Sick of hearing the same shit, they feel the format of comercial radio is generic and it needs to be changed. and on the other, you have a group of people who are making money off this generic music, or are into it and/or dont feel its generic.. Its just an assist to give you a more trendy sound to them, I guess... But In Any Event, I see the points of both sides, But I think their both right in some respects, but they both need a closer look at what the core of the controversy really is.

Now, I gotta Quote Jim Jones For a Second:

"We're getting money off of autotune, it's just sounding like somebody's trying to knock a hustle and I don't think that's a little bit gangster if you ask me," Jones explained. "We getting money. He's knocking the hustle, ya dig? If these young men are making money off of autotune why would you try to stop that, when you got all the money already?" (106 & Park)

See... This is where dudes is missing the point, I dont think Jay Z is Attacking dudes just to knock their hustle or Stop them from making money, To Me it looks like Jay is Tired of Mediocre Talents Making Money Off a Cheap Effect thats Played Out Anyway. Cuz First Off, If You need Autotune To make Money, Are you Really talented enough to deserve to Make it? If Autotune is the Core Of your whole Repitour, Then Why Should You have A spot in Regular Rotation when theres 50 other rappers lined up to be your spot with a million times the talent as you? You Mean To Tell Me you Aint Knocking their hustle? you Aint Making It Hard For Them? I heard Graphs "On Da Spot freestyle" And It was Sad... That dude Has crazy Talent, Along with alot of mainstream Potential, And "Pop Champagne " Is making it hard for him to Break Through, And Right Now, Jay Z Is his Only Voice on a Mainstream level.

But thats Besides the Point, the Point Is... That so many people are trying to make a quick buck off autotune, its fucking the whole genre up, and I dont care what anyone says... "Hip Hop" > "The Next Autotune Abusin ass niggas Pockets" Any day... And If they Dont like it, Then they can Take Their Music and Grow, and learn how to make a hit without autotune... Jay did it... so did Wayne, & Kanye... Which is Probably why Jay Said he wasent mad at them for it. Because I dont Think the Issue is Autotune... I think the issue is how you use it... If your a talented dude, and your using it for fun, or because its in style, and You have more to you than A Catchy autotune assited hook, than its ok, but if your really just a dude who's using autotune... and not great a much else... You need to give it a rest or step your game up.

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