Auto-Tune Expert T-Pain Says Kanye West Doesn’t Use It Correctly

By Marissa G. Muller

Rapper (ternt sanga), producer, and two-time GRAMMY winner T-Pain can now add self-proclaimed Auto-Tune expert to his résumé.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, T-Pain gave his assessment of how effectively other artists use Auto-Tune. (If you didn’t realize there’s a scale for this, you’re not alone.) As for which rapper is at the bottom of his list, T-Pain thinks Kanye West doesn’t know how to properly use Auto-Tune.

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Even though West has had a lot of practice with Auto-Tune — in between using it for his seminal album 808s & Heartbreak and on every night of his Yeezus tour where he filters his monologues through it at the tail end of “Runaway” — T-Pain thinks that West’s approaching it wrong.

“There are a lot of guys that use Auto-Tune that cannot sing,” he said. “Kanye uses it, but he doesn’t use it correctly.” He added, however,  that West still “makes great music with it.”

What exactly is the problem? T-Pain thinks Auto-Tune shouldn’t be used after singing.

“You don’t know how it’s going to come out,” he said. “You can’t catch your mistakes before they happen. So sometimes it gets a little wobbly and things like that.”

At the top of T-Pain’s list is Chris Brown and Jamie Foxx, who, he claimed, are certified Auto-Tune pros.

T-Pain’s new album Stoicville: The Phoenix was scheduled for release this year, though an official release date has not been announced. He’s released two singles off it so far: “Up Down (Do This All Day)” and “Drankin Patna.”

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