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Hiptics.com: What was your take on Jay-Z’s “Death Of AutoTune” record?
Juelz Santana:I mean to each his own. Jay-Z is Jay-Z. He’s a legend in the game. He can do whatever he want to do. As far as the “Death Of AutoTune,” it’s just some things that I don’t understand where they come from. I think they just be indirect shots…It don’t bother me. I never use AutoTune….It works for some records. I definitely think there was an over-flood of AutoTune, too. I definitely feel like a lot of people were just using it and abusing it. But then again there’s definitely some songs that actually sound good in AutoTune. Some people are actually talented so just as much as they use AutoTune, you can’t take away from their talent…But as far as the other people using it, this is hip hop. It’s about fun. Back in the day, that’s what it used to be…People want to have fun, so you can’t really knock the artists. Everybody’s a hustler, man. There’s enough money for everybody. It is what it is. I want to speak about Ron Browz cause that’s my dude. Shout out to Ron Browz. A lot of people don’t know, just as far as on the the Jay-Z half [i.e. his intention with "D.O.A."]. Ron Browz did the “Ether” beat, man. Let the world know. I be tellin’ Ron, you know a lot of other people [use AutoTune], but as far as Ron — “Pop Champagne,” a lot of people just know him for that — my man is a heavy producer. He did “Blow It Out” for Ludacris. He did “I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy” for 50 Cent. These are hardcore beats. Let’s not get it confused…Like I said, he supplied the”Ether”, and everybody know what “Ether” did [click to listen].
Hiptics.com: And I can’t help but wonder if part of the intention of that record was in some ways to take a jab at Ron just because he still calls himself Ether Boy. I think that’s the name of his label. And he’s very relevant right now.
Juelz Santana: Yea, that’s what I’m saying, you can’t knock the young boy. You gotta let the young boys do what they do. Like I said, I understand there’s a lot of people using AutoTune. There’s a lot of copy-cat going on, but it’s like that in hip hop. It’s just like a producer. You get a hot producer [and] everybody uses a beat from that producer. Hip Hop has always been a trendy thing like whatever is in, people kind of run with that for a while…That’s just how I look at the AutoTune thing…That’s like when somebody come out with a song “Death To Old Rappers” or something. Everybody got their opinion about shit that they wanna feel so Jay got a right to voice his mind. That’s what hip hop is about. It like Star and Buc Wild say, it’s no boundaries, it’s no parameters, it’s an open battle field.
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