Kanye used autotune within 808s prominently and this is around the time people criticised both T-pain and Ye for using it. T-pain popularised it and Kanye delivered a beautiful album using it. They hate a Ye album till 3-4 years after it’s “yeha I was bumping that it’s fire”.
I agree this song is the worst song on TLOP, there’s only 2 good songs on this album. If you think otherwise then you obviously need to get new ears lol
Anthony Anderson KJ they already heard Saint Pablo off screen and I want them to do Highlights too but they can’t do 2 so fuck it they should just react to the whole album
For sure. But I'd say Kanye made rappers using autotune mainstream with 808s and MBDTF. Also do wanna note that Kanye's been using autotune since College Dropout, just not in super noticeable ways. Mostly with his samples.
@@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 tpain autotune was not considered gimmicky .... kanye didnt legitimize anything. He just jumped on the wave like many mainstream artists do to this day ..a more recent example would be DRAKE stealing all of The Weeknd/PartyNextDoor's style and vibe. Tpain was getting hit after hit and Kanye merely jumped on the bandwagon just like a million other artists did at the time.
@@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 Wayne "legitimized it as a genuine artistic tool for emotional expression." Kanye got washed on See You In My Nightmares because he used it as a gimmick as well.
Kanye used autotune first but not for his self but for John Legend making flute sounds on jesus walks and on Kanyes Work Out Plan, But t pain was the first Rap artist to fully use it on his self.
Willys Chitumba you fucking idiot he said t pain popularized it and yes Wayne did start using it first then Kanye and then t pain but t pain taught both of them how to use it better
T-Pain’s use of auto tune was different though, Kanye’s was more melancholic. 808s & Heartbreak presented the idea of juxtaposing raw human emotion with computerised, corrected vocals.
@@freddymain6910 nope not at all kanye and il wayne used it as a way to be melodic if you can't sing, T pain could actually sing and it showed by how good the autotune sounded
in a way, this album was very influential for the type of rap that i like to consider hip hops version of the metal sound. it doesn’t sound like metal but what i mean is very industrial sounding hiphop
VOX dropped a video 2 years ago about kanye west and how he uses the human voice as an instrument! ya dont have to react to it but its an amazing video since ya like kanye alot i suggest it!
T-Pain definitely made autotune popular in society, and I think Kanye showed other artists how to use it and opened the doors for more creativity in hip hop
T-Pain popularized auto tune after being inspired by Cher. He had numerous hits using auto tune and came out with an auto tune app in 2009 that was popular on the Apple Store.
South Park based it off Kanye’s 808’s and heartbreak album which was sung completely with autotune. That’s why they drew him with his weird Mohawk mullet hair style. He had that hair during the time of that album.
YUNG LEAN - MIAMI ULTRAS!! Thanks as always bois. I would say that Kanye pushed use of auto tune really into mainstream. As he does with every album, he brings something new to the culture.
Cher - Believe was the first song to truly ever use it as an instrument. it was the catalyst inspired T-Pain, who is the King of Autotune. After T-Pain became one of the top artists in the world, people such as Kanye were further inspired
Kanye uses Strange Fruit to contrast civil rights era black life with modern day black life. This shows the ascending arc of the black experience, trading disrespect, and violence for commercial viability, and critical respect.
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T-Pain and Lil Wayne popularize auto-tune but Kanye showed us what you can actually do with it. When T-Pain and Lil Wayne did it, they had a brief period of success with an overwhelming period of hate right after. Kanye took auto-tune during a time when everyone hated it and made them love it. After 808s and Heartbreak, it fuelled an entire new generation of hip hop.
there's a vox pop video called "Kanye West Desconstructed" or something like that. you guys should watch it to understand why Kanye in a genius (in some level)
I think the contrast makes sense. He is talking about people projecting an image, and signaling self worth via external means. That is a mentality, that controls and imprisons them mentally (two thousand-dollar bag with no cash in your purse etc.). Society propagates the ideas, and has blood on their hands figuratively. It is gone from physical death and control, to mental. He is also said similar things in Saint Pablo (400 years later we are buying our own chains). On the very same album, there is a track called New Slaves, that mentions blood on the leaves. It is about mass control via corporations, and being boxed in creatively through how society and people who could open doors perceive him. He also aknowledges, he sees the hollow allure of fame, and the problem with defining worth externally, yet exists in the same space. There is a push and pull. I think it was in the Zane Lowe interview (or maybe a different interview, he said something along those lines). The juxtaposition of the sample and lyric content, is how meaning emerges. It gets at a fundamental shift from physical and more overt control/death, to a more subtle and mental means of control and a figurative death.
Kanye was using auto tune since The College Dropout in 2004. For example, the end of The New Workout Plan, and Graduation day. That was before T-Pain even had an album out.
Most of you guys probably haven’t listened to College dropout where Kanye used autotune on Jesus Walks, Graduation Day and The New Workout Plan. He just didn’t use it himself, he had other artists perform with it for him on the album. This was before T Pain. College Dropout is T-Pain favourite Ye album. Rapper ternt sanga came out the year after College Dropout.
T-Pain popularized Auto Tune in hip-pop. Kanye West & Lil Wayne just started profiting off of T-Pain's success with it (so Auto-tune was already popular by then). Auto-tune has been used in Hip-pop since the 80s (mostly with the use of a Harmonizer) but T-pain made it so popular with his "I'm Sprung" soundtrack back in 2005 that a lot of Artists who didn't know the official name of the software was Auto tune called it "The T-Pain voice". 808s & Heartbreaks was only in 2008. T-Pain & Kanye did work closely musically for quite some time since 2007 until Kanye West endlessly disrespected him and his music.
T-Pain popularized auto tune as far as mainstream music goes but Kanye West made it cool to use as a rapper. Rappers started doing it because Kanye was the first to break that barrier
FINALLY! Rock Reacts HAS COME BACK to Kanye. But in all seriousness, if you guys want a really well paced god tier recording session than listen to these: Ultralight Beam- Kanye West Pyramids- Frank Ocean Headstone- Flatbush Zombies Really Doe- Danny Brown Puff Daddy- JPEGMAFIA Jailbreak the Tesla- Injury Reserve Literally anything by Rico Nasty Star- Brockhampton Souvenir- Milo Nice little mix of hype shit and actual lyrical tracks, and some new artists and finally getting some songs and highly requested artists out the way. But if you are gonna listen to one song on here, it’s gotta be Injury Reserve.
Bro, these choices were next level but never checked out Injury Reserve before. After listening to their collabs with Anime and Rico Nasty, holy fuck. Thanks for the suggestion, they're fucking live😭
Jacob Berryman I would say S on Your Chest but I think you need a track that’s more attention grabbing than that. S On Your Chest is amazing, but I wouldn’t ever recommend that as somebody’s first IR song, even though it’s like a top tier IR track. I’m also glad I’ve gotten so many people into Injury Reserve. Kinda crazy that I saw them and JPEG for like $13 a year ago.
3:53 I would say T-Pain popularized it and Kanye was inspired by T-Pain's usage of it. There's a video of Ye shouting out T-Pain for being a genius at the BET awards back in Pain's heyday. I remember back in 2007/2008 when people around me would hear autotune and call it "the T-Pain effect"
Exactly!!!!! It's like people be having amnesia or something. I remember that. T Pain is the definitely the auto tune starter as far as this generation
The original sample is strange fruit by Billie holiday which is a song that talks about the tragic lynching that happened all over the south around the 50-60s (I think). Black people were hung from trees and one common tree in the south is a poplar tree and the people hung from those trees would be the "strange fruit" and it also talks about the scent of burning flesh in which the people would also be burnt alive. Grizzly stuff!
T-pain and Lil Wayne really popularised it in the early 2000s and Kanye essentially brought it back in a different more artistic manner with songs such as Runaway and Blood on the leaves. He’s a legend for sure though
after 808s everyone started using it like that. T-Pain and Lil Wayne were early users of it (Snoop was too with Sexual Seduction), but Kanye made it popular in the mainstream.
T Pain made Auto Tune famous and populated over 10 years before Kanye. Blood on the leaves sampled Strange Fruit and C-Murder Down for my Niggas. Future-March Madness should be the next song you guys do.
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The lyric about aparteid is also based on a court room with his side chick on one side and his wife on the other. It's a critique of modern slavery in a consumer culture in which women seek out married men in order to appropriate money from them, a progression from his earlier work on Gold Digger.
Yep! It’s so sad because its also about how the destruction of the black family has ruined everything for them. There’s no love and the kid is the one who has to suffer. The women are married to the government and welfare and child support so the kid grows up with no father. The cycle continues.
yeeh d for real, Mike Dean gets constant love by the Kanye community but the rest of the music world needs to recognize his mad talent, and he’s been around for forever now
T-Pain popularized auto-tune. And aside from the Nina Simone sample in this song, Kanye sampled C-Murder's song "Down For My Niggaz. That's the part of the beat y'all bopping your head to
