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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.
You can listen the song here, this is the official video.
Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) Lyrics
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
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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
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
Released June 5, 2009
Recorded 2009
Genre Hip hop
Length 4:11
Label Roc-A-Fella, Atlantic
Writer Shawn Carter
Producer No I.D., Kanye West
June 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
This song was produced by Kanye West, and had some input via NO ID. Get your fact str8 kidz.
June 10th, 2009 at 8:23 am
And how can the assumption be that the track disses Kanye West when Kanye West produced it?
June 10th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
he probably aint talking about tpain he was the first ne that came wit auto tune but all the rest are takin it to far only tpain can use it
June 11th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I think it was Zapp & Roger that that originally started autotune. Remember “Computer Love”. This s#@t’s been around a while. What about Daft Punk? T-Pain just brought it back to the millenium and hasn’t quit. It’s definitely gettin old! Time to move on people! Give us somethin’ better to mash up. JAY-Z, break it down - show em whos da real Gangsta!!
Been trying to get rich all my life, would have probably had a chance if I took on a singing career in Autotune.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
ya’ll niggas funny…he said a few songs where it should be left alone…lolipop was good, 808 n heart breaks, and Tpain made a few melodies and that’s it. Almost all the tracks after lolipop that wayne features in HE’S ON AUTOTUNE, DRAKE IS ON AUTOTUNE, Kanye is still doing Autotune when he features on other songs…hella niggas is on autotune….niggas need to leave it alone now like THROWBACK JERSEY’S…this new style of hiphop is gay…SKINNY JEANS, PURPLE SHOES, AND AUTOTUNE….”jeans too tight, colors too bright, yo voice too light”
June 12th, 2009 at 7:16 am
This is probably not targeted to people but the technology and its over_use
June 12th, 2009 at 9:09 am
He basically explained there was people from the start with auto-tune, people that can actually use it like t-pain no doubt kanye did a whole album with it but basically his point was theres A LOT of people that are using it and its dead already only certain people could use it the ones with great melodies. i find pain to be nice but i also would hate to see him not use the auto tune. because it sounds hot for him feel me?
song is hott can’t wait for the album baby!
DOA
June 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
He is not talking about T-Pain. T-Pain is a singer. He even said it on the interview. He’s talking about RAPPERS not R&B singers.
June 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Correction in the lyrics. The line: I made this just for Flex n Mrs. C, should really be “Mr. Cee”. The NYC radio DJ who rose to national popularity when managing Notorious BIG.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Hmmmm…Nope! He ain’t talkin’ about T-Pain. He says right in the song “Ya’ll T-Painin’ too much” Therefore, stop jocking Pain’s style and get ur own! Listen to Escay…GET BACK TO RAPPIN’ YA’LL!!! This auto-tune shit is wack! Leave it to Pain! Weezy needs to start writing again, he was a lot better when he wrote shit down! I’m not hatin gon Drake tho…That man can rap and sing. The next best rapper alive! Jay is killin’ it tho!
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
This is directed to all the new wanna-bees, that are riding the tuxedo tails of Jay-Z, Kanye, Wayne and T-pain. These men created this technology movement, but unfortunately others are taking it to far…the lyrics in songs have become idioic and rappers are now singing and dancing; when we have lyrics in hip/hop like “get silly”, “stanky leg” and “superman that hoe” one can’t help but be said for the state of hip/hop. These catchy-humming, one day elevator music, hooks are sad; they show no use of creativity and I hope our hip/hop nation rises up. We need a new artist that can spit about our culture and give us something to feel when we listen, something we can relate to.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
i think jay z is best ,
September 15th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
i believe that JAY-Zhas the right to be able to have a say on musical issues.His experience gives him an edge over other amateur musicians like t-pain.so therefore he should be taken more seriously on his warning about the disaster that auto-tune could bring,not only to RAP,but also to music as a whole.JAY-Z is saying,LETS DO THE REAL THING.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 am
wtf!!! tpain cant sing LOL!!
January 17th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Ok i get both sides of the story and i have to agree, lay is not talking about pain, he is just saying that people should get their own style, and we have to face it autotune was nice while it lasted its now time to move on, thing like autotune come and go at people want to make them stay
July 15th, 2011 at 4:16 am
very few rappers have still got the flow. most notably lupe fiasco. that nigga knows how to put ish down