What else can I say? Listen and Love!
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This track is so Blueprint!!! Call me bias if you want, but Hova can do no wrong in my ears. He is the only man who can make a track speaking against Ye the king of autotune and still have him featured on his track. Jay explained his reasoning behind the song to Hot 97, "The guys who did it, did it great. T-Pain, he does great melodies. If you listen to Kanye, great melodies. Everybody can’t do it. Let them guys do it. They got their little niche, let’s move on.” Jay-Z’s hope is to “draw [a] line in the sand” so that rappers can begin “moving [the conversation] forward.”
A lot of young rappers including Jim Jones had a mouthful to say about this track. But Jay is simply saying auto-tuning is not for everyone. So, of course every emcee whose vocals lean on the shoulder's of autotune will have a problem with what he's saying, but someone had to address the state of hip-hop and who can do it better than Jay?. So, in the words of my girl Lauren Conrad, "It is, what it is". DOA saved me because I was starting to drown in my swag and take heed to Soulja Boy's music... No sah, I can respect the dude, but there is nothing and no one in hip-hop greater than Hov.
Check out the videos below!
Jay-Z Performs DOA at Hot 97's summer jam concert.
MTV Interview
What do I think of the song? Loving DOA! Blueprint 3 will be released exactly 8 years from the release of his first Blueprint album, September 11, 2009!
Don't hate! xoxox Jay!
