Anyone remember THIS Jay-Z??

I wanted to add my tw0 (well maybe ten cents) on Large Marge’s post about Jay-Z and DOA.  First off, the beat is ill.  No Id is that dude.  However, it makes me upset that people are giving Jay-Z SO MUCH credit for “deading” autotune.  This song is 2 years too late for autotune and about 6 years too late for Jay-z.  I am(or should I say WAS) a Jay-Z supporter even up until Kingdom Come.  I would never try to take anything away from Jay and what he has done for hip-hop.  Reasonable Doubt is a classic.  Blueprint is DAMN NEAR a classic and Black Album is very close as well.  Jay has managed to do things that no other rapper has ever done and maybe will ever do again.  All the shit he brags about is true.  Now enough Jay-Z “dick lickin.”  DOA is straight up bullshit and should irritate any fan of hip-hop and Jay-Z for that matter.  Not only are his rhymes just not tight or even comparable to his older shit, Jay-Z is simply kicking a dead horse.  When autotune started, the shit was wack.  When Lil Wayne used it the shit was wack.  When Kanye did a WHOLE ALBUM the shit was wack.  But not until horrible artists who are just following T-Pain, Kanye and Lil Wayne’s footsteps start using it, does it become unbearable and need to be deaded.  Jay-Z not only sat by and LET autotune and WACK music happen he cosigned it and made garbage by his DAMN self.  Name the last GREAT Jay-Z song.  Dear Summer probably.  For three of the “hottest” rappers out to let hip hop get to this point is an absolute travesty.  It is clear that “hip hop’s” most recognizable voices and biggest personality only care about one thing.  MONEY(and staying relevant).  Not only have Jay-Z, Kanye and Lil Wayne done exactly what mainstream has wanted them to do, they have totally neglected the people, the music and the culture that has given them their opportunities.  Back to my original point, everyone seems to have forgot that The Blueprint 3 was SUPPOSED to have autotune and was being dubbed as the “hip hop” version of 808′s and Heartbreaks.  Now, after the underground and real fans are SCREAMING in agony about hip hop being dead and have practically given up on hip hop, Jay-Z wants to claim he is the one responsible for saving us from autotune.  Jay-Z sat back for YEARS and let hip hop get to this point and now he acts like he is our savior.  I just wonder how we got to this point, where a genre of music that was BUILT for those without a voice and always went against the grain became so spineless.  None of our biggest names will stand up against the machine that we have created and make the music that NEEDS to be made.  There is a reason rappers careers only last a few years because everything we see and hear is so manufactured that it’s impossible to tell what’s real.  It’s like Andre 3000 said “A real ______ can’t even get a back rub these days.”  The only message Jay, Kanye, Lil Wayne, the labels, the radio, the DJs and the websites are sending any one is to lose all sense of self respect, pride and trueness about and cater to what is selling.  Let’s be real, if Jay-Z was as BIG and IMPORTANT as he is then he could sell anything.  I understand it is an industry but didn’t we CREATE the industry.  Aren’t WE the voice of the few.  I could go on for days, weeks and years about all the failures our biggest names have had but I’ll save it for another time.  The time isn’t now, the time was years ago.  But I guess if GOD MC, Jay-Z says the time is now, maybe it is because hip hop has become the music of followers.  Like my pops says “I’m not mad just disappointed.”  And please understand this isn’t JUST about autotune its about all WACK shit period.