<a href="/profile/TPain" class="text-word" target="_blank" >T-Pain</a> says he took Jay-Z&#8217;s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” as a personal diss because he saw himself as <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/auto-tune-in-hip-hop-a-brief-history-from-t-pain-to-future-news.122367.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">&#8220;the face of Auto-Tune&#8221;</a> at the time. Pain discussed his reaction to the classic track during a new interview on the Drink Champs podcast.
“Of course! A wise man once said, ‘You can’t knock the hustle,’” T-Pain said when asked by Co-host <a href="/profile/nore" class="text-word" target="_blank" >N.O.R.E.</a> whether he thought the track was a diss was he first heard it. “I’m the face of this. Just like <a href="/profile/lilyachty" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Lil Yachty</a> was the face of mumble rap—anytime somebody talk about mumble rap, Lil Yachty was the first person to come up. I was the face of Auto-Tune. Anytime somebody said, ‘Auto-Tune,’ I’m the face. So, when you say Auto-Tune is wack, I’m the face.”
He continued: “If I woulda said fuckin’ blue Yankees are terrible, everybody woulda been like, ‘Oh you dissin’ Jay-Z now?’ … Anytime [Jay] says something is wack, it’s trash.”
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&#8220;D.O.A.&#8221; was released in 2009 and fans quickly assumed it was T-Pain who was being targeted, but Jay shut that rumor down in an interview with Hot 97 shortly after the track&#8217;s release.
“You n***as singin’ too much/Get back to rap, you T-Painin’ too much,” Hov rapped on the track.
Check out the interview below.
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