News: T-Pain & Ron Browz Speak Out On "Death Of Autotune," "A Hot Record Is A Hot Record"

Written by Cyrus Langhorne

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 07:34:42

Autotune hitmakers T-Pain and Ron Browz have shared their reactions to Jay-Z's "Death of Autotune (D.O.A)" record and offered their personal opinions on the voice-changing machine.

Feeling honored by the track, Pain said he felt Jay's song paid tribute to his sound of music.

"That affected me in a great way man," Pain said in an interview about the song. "And I made sure I honored him, it's a great song. That's like the best song I've heard in a couple of years. It's great that somebody that important stepped up and vouched for me. That just makes me ready to come back out and do my thing." (MTV)

While not as direct, Browz said the streets should be able to judge whether a song's usage of autotune is hot or not.

"I'm just doing my thing pretty much," Ron told radio personality Miss Info in an interview. "I make fun records that everybody sing-a-long and that's what I'ma continue to do. I'm contributing to hip-hop...Hip-Hop at the end of the day is fun. So I just took autotune to have some fun with it. Snoop Dogg] did it, he was having fun with it. Pain, [Lil Wayne] and 50 Cent played around with it for a minute, it's just fun...That's like sampling is out, oh no, you can't sample records any more? Sampling is a part of hip-hop...At the end of the day, a hot record is a hot record and a wack record is a wack record, if it's got autotune or not. The streets are gonna