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Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.) by Jay-Z, Music Lyrics with Audio.
D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) is the fourth single by American rapper Jay-Z, from his eleventh studio album, The Blueprint³.
The song was released on June 5, 2009; it premiered Friday night on New York's rap radio powerhouse Hot 97 and instantly became the talk of hip-hop.
The single was produced by No I.D and Kanye West and samples a Janko Nilovic song by the name of "In the Space".
The music video aired immediately after the 2009 BET Awards on June 28. It features cameos by actor Harvey Keitel, he plays one of the card player in the kitchen, and basketball star LeBron Jame.
The beat, by (prime Auto-Tune Offender) Chicago producer No ID, has walloping snare drum hits and soprano saxophone noodling - a stock old-school sound that signifies we are about to receive a schoolmarm's lesson in Real Hip-Hop. Which is what Jay-Z provides, or tries to, in a notably slack and witless recitation of would-be zinger-couplets: "I know we facing a recession/ But the music y'all making go'n' make it the Great Depression"; "This is just violent/ This is Death of Auto-Tune, moment of silence"; "This ain't a No. 1 record/ This is practically assault with a deadly weapon"; etc. To drive home the point that the track is Auto-Tune-free, the rapper's verses are interspersed with some painfully off-key warbling of the refrain from "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."
Who exactly Jay-Z is taking on in this polemic is unclear. You would assume his targets are Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and T-Pain - the highest-profile Auto-Tune freaks-but in an interview on Hot 97, he excused those three on the grounds that their music has "great melodies." (Whether this is a virtue is complicated by a boast in "DOA": "My raps don't have melodies.") In lieu of picking a fight with human beings, Jay-Z disses technology itself, calling out not just pitch-correction software but iTunes and ringtones. (We await the release of the rapper's forthcoming Blueprint 3 album for Jay-Z's rants against the cotton gin and the steam engine.)
source slate.com
Only rapper to rewrite history without a pen No I.D. on the track let the story begin... begin... begin This is anti-autotune, death of the ringtone This ain't for Itunes, this ain't for sing-along This is Sinatra at the opera, bring a blonde Preferably with a fat ass who can sing a song Wrong, this ain't politically correct This might offend my political connects My rap's don't have melodies This shit make jackers wanna go n commit felonies Ah, get your chain tooken I may do it myself, I'm so Brooklyn I know we facin a recession But the music yall makin gonna make it the great depression Ah, or your lack of aggression Pull your skirt back down, grow a set men Ah, ah.. nigga this just violent This is death of autotune, ah moment of silence la da da da... hey hey hey goodbye Only rapper to rewrite history without a pen No I.D. on the track let the story begin... begin....begin Holdup, this ain't a number 1 record This is practically assault with a deadly weapon I made this just for Flex n Mrs. C, I want niggas to feel threatened Stop your blood clot crying The kid the dog everybody dying No lyin, your niggas' jeans too tight Your colors too bright, your voice too light I might wear black four years straight, I might bring back Versace shades, This ain't for Z100 Ye told me to kill yall to keep it 100 This is for Hot 9-7 The shit for clue for Khaled, for we the best n' Nigga this shit violent This is death of autotune, moment of silence... la da da da... hey hey hey goodbye Only rapper to rewrite history without a pen No I.D. on the track let the story begin... begin... begin Holdup, this shit need a verse from Jeezy... ay! I might send this to the mixtape Weezy Get somebody from BMF to talk on this Give this to a Blood, let a Crip walk on it Get me foul to style on this I just don't need nobody to smile on this You niggas singin too much, Get back to rap you T-Pain'n too much Ah, I'm a multi-millionaire So how is it I'm still the hardest n---a here? I don't be in the project hallway Talkin' bout how I be in the project all day That sounds stupid to me, If you a gangsta, this is how you prove it to me Yeah, just get violent This is death of autotune, moment of silence la da da da... hey hey hey goodbye Only rapper to rewrite history without a pen No I.D. on the track let the story begin... begin... begin Song Information
Copyrights:
Author: Dale Frashuer, Dave Sucky, Ernest Wilson (2), Gary DeCarlo, Janko Nilovic, Paul Leka, Shawn Carter
Composer: ?
Publisher: Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC, Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records, Activision Publishing, Inc.
Details:
Released in: 2009
Language: English
More info:
- Country: United States
- jay-z.com
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