{"id":761422,"date":"2026-06-26T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:18:14","slug":"t-pain-recalls-hearing-jay-zs-d-o-a-for-first-time-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761422\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Pain Recalls Hearing Jay-Z’s ‘D.O.A.’ for First Time: ‘Devastating’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tT-Pain<\/a> became synonymous with AutoTune while churning out hits in the mid-2000s and was taken aback when Jay-Z <\/a>nuked the audio processor software with his \u201cD.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)\u201d single in 2009. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Florida native joined T.I.\u2019s<\/a> Expeditiously podcast on Wednesday (June 24), where he recalled hearing Hov\u2019s \u201cD.O.A.\u201d for the first time, which he said was \u201cdevastating.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat sucked,\u201d T-Pain repeated. \u201cI\u2019m a Jay-Z fan still to this day. One of my favorite songs from him was \u2018Can\u2019t Knock the Hustle.\u2019 And getting my hustle knocked wasn\u2019t on my bingo card.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cIt was devastating at the time. That was another way of [Jay-Z saying], \u2018Hey, man, y\u2019all let me do what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m still over here.\u2019 It wasn\u2019t a call to kill T-Pain. It was like, \u2018Hey, guys. I\u2019m still me now. I\u2019m still Jay-Z. Y\u2019all don\u2019t get too caught up with that s\u2013t over there. Ain\u2019t going to last too long.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, there\u2019s no static between T-Pain and Hov as the two have spoken on numerous occasions over the years. The three-time Billboard Hot 100-topping artist explained that he eventually reached a point of maturity to understand Jay\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt just came down to me not understanding how to process somebody else\u2019s feelings and looking at things from the other side and trying to see all sides of a situation before I was able to react,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cD.O.A.\u201d arrived in June 2009 as a single heading into Jay\u2019s The Blueprint 3. The No I.D.-produced track reached No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tT-Pain\u2019s use of AutoTune seeped into hip-hop\u2019s mainstream, which was adopted by rap titans like Lil Wayne,<\/a> who drenched his syrupy lyrics in AutoTune, as well as Ye<\/a> (formerly Kanye West), who prominently used it on 2008\u2019s 808s & Heartbreak. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatch T-Pain\u2019s interview with T.I. below. Talk about Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cD.O.A.\u201d takes place just shy of the nine-minute mark. <\/p>\n

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