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You had an interview at one point where you said, I'm reading it right now, I said I don't
think Future gets the technology very well, I don't think he understands how it actually works.
He's writing great songs, he's a great writer, but you know you could use Auto-Tune and you
know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
Yeah, I don't think he gets the technology, I mean nobody does.
Anybody that uses Auto-Tune, I can firmly say that nobody has looked into Auto-Tune
the way I have.
You know what I'm saying, I've looked into Auto-Tune, I've literally met the inventor
of Auto-Tune.
I've talked to him about the way that Auto-Tune was invented.
Auto-Tune was invented by this guy who used to be an oil digger.
This guy used to work on an oil rig and they used to send sonar signals and tones down
in the ground and if it came back a different tone up to where your equipment was, then
that means you, that determines if you got oil or not.
So you send a signal and if it comes back a different tone, then it changes the tone,
like oil will change the tone.
So it's like he used that same math to make Auto-Tune and it's like you send a tone into
Pro Tools and it sends you the right tone back and a lot of math went into that shit
and just some shit that's more complicated than it would take us a billion minutes to
fucking explain this shit to regular motherfuckers.
But I really studied this shit and I know for a fact that nobody has sat down in the
studio and studied this shit that much.
Nobody has done that because it happened too fast.
They didn't have time to do it.
I studied Auto-Tune two years before I used it once and I know it happened too fast.
Because after I used it, niggas just started coming out of nowhere.
So it happened too fast for them to know how this shit works.
And I know I studied this shit and I know the technology.
I know why it catches certain notes.
I know why it doesn't catch certain notes.
I know why this shit works the way it works and I know niggas ain't did that, for sure.
Well you know when Kanye did 808s and Heartbreaks, and he used Auto-Tune, a lot of people really
kind of went down on him.
Came down hard on him over using it.
Because I mean honestly I feel that Kanye's use of Auto-Tune wasn't as good as your use of it.
The crazy thing was I worked on 808s and Heartbreaks with Kanye.
I went down to Hawaii for like ten days with that nigga.
And Kanye actually told me himself, you know like my album, Rapper Turned Singer, he said
I listened to your album Rapper Turned Singer, I heard all those songs, I fucking love your
album Rapper Turned Singer, I think you a genius, blah blah blah.
He went through this whole spiel.
He said but what I figured out, that Rapper Turned Singer is just a bunch of love songs
with a shitload of bass in them.
And I'm like well love songs is like Heartbreaks and the shitload of bass is the 808s.
So you calling your album 808s and Heartbreaks because you making a bunch of love songs with
a shitload of bass in them?
And he basically was like yeah pretty much, that's what I'm, yeah, that's it.
And I respect that shit but it's like the praise that he got from it was like oh my
god this is so creative, this is the new shit, this is the shit.
And I'm like well what happened to 2005 when I dropped Rapper Turned Singer and it was
the same album?
That's kind of weird.
You know what I'm saying?
It just felt like I was unappreciated and anything like that.
I mean any originator of anything is going to be the lesser known and you know what I'm
saying because it's the newest thing and that's just not, you know, I mean it's not right
but that's just how shit goes.
Good Life, that was one of my favorite Kanye songs ever.
Like y'all two were brilliant on that.
Yeah man it actually took us like, oh man, it took us like five weeks to do that song.
I've never taken, that's the one song in my entire life that has taken me that long to do.
And Kanye just wanted me to do, like, the hook that's on that song, that I, I go from
my, I got this high, that's how you'll have, that is, that one hook is made of seven hooks
that I did.
Like it's, and it's not even the whole seven hooks, it's just like pieces from every hook
that I did on that song.
Actually the bridge on that song, the better than the life I live, and I thought that I
was gonna go crazy.
That thing, that was one of the hooks that I did.
So it's not even like, I don't know, that song was very fucking confusing.
I actually didn't hear, I didn't hear the whole song until I got to the video shoot.
And that was very confusing.
If it, if it looked like I was, like I didn't know where the hook came at any point in that
video, that's because I really fucking didn't.
Because when I was doing the hook, it didn't have no verses on it.
I didn't even, oh man, it was just, it was a lot.
A lot.
Great song though.
You know, the final product I thought was great.
Great fucking concept.
I mean he got some dudes from France to do the shit, I mean it was, it was genius.
I'd need them dudes but they'd be fucking expensive.
The way he flipped the Michael Jackson sample too was brilliant.
And you know what, the whole time, and the whole time I was doing the hook, that sample
wasn't even in there.
The sample wasn't even in there.
That wasn't even a part of the beat when I was doing the goddamn song.
That part, that, he didn't put that in there until I got to the video shoot.
It was weird as shit.
He was like, you need to hear the song?
I'm like, nah, I heard it, I did it.
He was like, nah, you might want to hear the song.
I mean shit was funny as hell.
But you know, it worked.
Hey shit, ain't got no problem with it.
Ain't got no problem with nothing.
[Eb]
It's a lot of fans.
The guy sold what?
About damn near 800,000 [B] the first week.
So it's a lot of fans that like Drake [Bb] singing.
[C] You know what I'm saying?
[N] And I think that's all he gives a damn about.
Yeah, I don't
He's not signed to Good Music.
Yeah man, I mean, I look into changing to my [E] Good Music brother.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know the [C] paperwork scenario of it, but I mean, [Bm] we're all seasoned artists, man.
think Future gets the technology very well, I don't think he understands how it actually works.
He's writing great songs, he's a great writer, but you know you could use Auto-Tune and you
know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
Yeah, I don't think he gets the technology, I mean nobody does.
Anybody that uses Auto-Tune, I can firmly say that nobody has looked into Auto-Tune
the way I have.
You know what I'm saying, I've looked into Auto-Tune, I've literally met the inventor
of Auto-Tune.
I've talked to him about the way that Auto-Tune was invented.
Auto-Tune was invented by this guy who used to be an oil digger.
This guy used to work on an oil rig and they used to send sonar signals and tones down
in the ground and if it came back a different tone up to where your equipment was, then
that means you, that determines if you got oil or not.
So you send a signal and if it comes back a different tone, then it changes the tone,
like oil will change the tone.
So it's like he used that same math to make Auto-Tune and it's like you send a tone into
Pro Tools and it sends you the right tone back and a lot of math went into that shit
and just some shit that's more complicated than it would take us a billion minutes to
fucking explain this shit to regular motherfuckers.
But I really studied this shit and I know for a fact that nobody has sat down in the
studio and studied this shit that much.
Nobody has done that because it happened too fast.
They didn't have time to do it.
I studied Auto-Tune two years before I used it once and I know it happened too fast.
Because after I used it, niggas just started coming out of nowhere.
So it happened too fast for them to know how this shit works.
And I know I studied this shit and I know the technology.
I know why it catches certain notes.
I know why it doesn't catch certain notes.
I know why this shit works the way it works and I know niggas ain't did that, for sure.
Well you know when Kanye did 808s and Heartbreaks, and he used Auto-Tune, a lot of people really
kind of went down on him.
Came down hard on him over using it.
Because I mean honestly I feel that Kanye's use of Auto-Tune wasn't as good as your use of it.
The crazy thing was I worked on 808s and Heartbreaks with Kanye.
I went down to Hawaii for like ten days with that nigga.
And Kanye actually told me himself, you know like my album, Rapper Turned Singer, he said
I listened to your album Rapper Turned Singer, I heard all those songs, I fucking love your
album Rapper Turned Singer, I think you a genius, blah blah blah.
He went through this whole spiel.
He said but what I figured out, that Rapper Turned Singer is just a bunch of love songs
with a shitload of bass in them.
And I'm like well love songs is like Heartbreaks and the shitload of bass is the 808s.
So you calling your album 808s and Heartbreaks because you making a bunch of love songs with
a shitload of bass in them?
And he basically was like yeah pretty much, that's what I'm, yeah, that's it.
And I respect that shit but it's like the praise that he got from it was like oh my
god this is so creative, this is the new shit, this is the shit.
And I'm like well what happened to 2005 when I dropped Rapper Turned Singer and it was
the same album?
That's kind of weird.
You know what I'm saying?
It just felt like I was unappreciated and anything like that.
I mean any originator of anything is going to be the lesser known and you know what I'm
saying because it's the newest thing and that's just not, you know, I mean it's not right
but that's just how shit goes.
Good Life, that was one of my favorite Kanye songs ever.
Like y'all two were brilliant on that.
Yeah man it actually took us like, oh man, it took us like five weeks to do that song.
I've never taken, that's the one song in my entire life that has taken me that long to do.
And Kanye just wanted me to do, like, the hook that's on that song, that I, I go from
my, I got this high, that's how you'll have, that is, that one hook is made of seven hooks
that I did.
Like it's, and it's not even the whole seven hooks, it's just like pieces from every hook
that I did on that song.
Actually the bridge on that song, the better than the life I live, and I thought that I
was gonna go crazy.
That thing, that was one of the hooks that I did.
So it's not even like, I don't know, that song was very fucking confusing.
I actually didn't hear, I didn't hear the whole song until I got to the video shoot.
And that was very confusing.
If it, if it looked like I was, like I didn't know where the hook came at any point in that
video, that's because I really fucking didn't.
Because when I was doing the hook, it didn't have no verses on it.
I didn't even, oh man, it was just, it was a lot.
A lot.
Great song though.
You know, the final product I thought was great.
Great fucking concept.
I mean he got some dudes from France to do the shit, I mean it was, it was genius.
I'd need them dudes but they'd be fucking expensive.
The way he flipped the Michael Jackson sample too was brilliant.
And you know what, the whole time, and the whole time I was doing the hook, that sample
wasn't even in there.
The sample wasn't even in there.
That wasn't even a part of the beat when I was doing the goddamn song.
That part, that, he didn't put that in there until I got to the video shoot.
It was weird as shit.
He was like, you need to hear the song?
I'm like, nah, I heard it, I did it.
He was like, nah, you might want to hear the song.
I mean shit was funny as hell.
But you know, it worked.
Hey shit, ain't got no problem with it.
Ain't got no problem with nothing.
[Eb]
It's a lot of fans.
The guy sold what?
About damn near 800,000 [B] the first week.
So it's a lot of fans that like Drake [Bb] singing.
[C] You know what I'm saying?
[N] And I think that's all he gives a damn about.
Yeah, I don't
He's not signed to Good Music.
Yeah man, I mean, I look into changing to my [E] Good Music brother.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know the [C] paperwork scenario of it, but I mean, [Bm] we're all seasoned artists, man.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ You had an interview at one point where you said, _ I'm reading it right now, I said I don't
think Future gets the technology very well, I don't think he understands how it actually works.
He's writing great songs, he's a great writer, but you know you could use Auto-Tune and you
know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
_ _ _ Yeah, I don't think he gets the technology, I mean nobody does.
Anybody that uses Auto-Tune, I can firmly say that nobody has looked into Auto-Tune
the way I have.
_ _ _ You know what I'm saying, I've looked into Auto-Tune, I've literally met _ _ the inventor
of Auto-Tune.
I've talked to him about the way that Auto-Tune was invented.
Auto-Tune was invented by this guy who used to be an oil digger.
This guy used to work on an oil rig and they used to send sonar signals and tones down
in the ground and if it came back a different tone up to where your equipment was, then
that means you, that determines if you got oil or not.
So you send a signal and if it comes back a different tone, then it changes the tone,
like oil will change the tone.
So it's like he used that same math to make Auto-Tune and it's like you send a tone into
Pro Tools and it sends you the right tone back and a lot of math went into that shit
and just some shit that's more complicated than it would take us a billion minutes to
fucking explain this shit to regular motherfuckers.
But _ I really studied this shit and I know for a fact that nobody has sat down in the
studio and studied this shit that much.
Nobody has done that because it happened too fast.
They didn't have time to do it.
I studied Auto-Tune two years before I used it once and I know it happened too fast.
Because after I used it, niggas just started coming out of nowhere.
So it happened too fast for them to know how this shit works.
And I know I studied this shit and I know the technology.
I know why it catches certain notes.
I know why it doesn't catch certain notes.
I know why this shit works the way it works and I know niggas ain't did that, for sure. _ _
Well you know when Kanye did 808s and Heartbreaks, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and he used Auto-Tune, a lot of people really
kind of went down on him.
Came down hard on him over using it.
Because I mean honestly I feel that Kanye's use of Auto-Tune wasn't as good as your use of it.
_ The crazy thing was I worked on 808s and Heartbreaks with Kanye.
I went down to Hawaii for like ten days with that nigga.
And _ _ Kanye actually told me himself, you know like my album, Rapper Turned Singer, he said
I listened to your album Rapper Turned Singer, I heard all those songs, I fucking love your
album Rapper Turned Singer, I think you a genius, blah blah blah.
He went through this whole spiel.
He said but what I figured out, that Rapper Turned Singer is just a bunch of love songs
with a shitload of bass in them.
_ _ And I'm like well love songs _ is like Heartbreaks and the shitload of bass is the 808s.
_ So you calling your album 808s and Heartbreaks because you making a bunch of love songs with
a shitload of bass in them?
And he basically was like yeah pretty much, that's what I'm, yeah, that's it.
_ And I respect that shit but it's like _ _ the praise that he got from it was like oh my
god this is so creative, this is the new shit, this is the shit.
And I'm like well what happened to 2005 when I dropped Rapper Turned Singer and it was
the same album?
That's kind of weird.
_ You know what I'm saying?
It just felt like I was unappreciated and anything like that.
I mean any _ originator of anything is going to be the lesser known and you know what I'm
saying because it's the newest thing and that's just not, you know, I mean it's not right
but that's just how shit goes.
Good Life, that was one of my favorite Kanye songs ever.
Like y'all two were brilliant on that.
Yeah man it actually took us like, oh man, it took us like five weeks to do that song.
I've never taken, that's the one song in my entire life that has taken me that long to do.
And Kanye just wanted me to do, like, the hook that's on that song, that I, I go from
my, I got this high, that's how you'll have, that is, that one hook _ is made of seven hooks
that I did.
Like it's, and it's not even the whole seven hooks, it's just like pieces from every hook
that I did on that song.
Actually the bridge on that song, the better than the life I live, and I thought that I
was gonna go crazy.
That thing, that was one of the hooks that I did.
So it's not even like, I don't know, that song was very fucking confusing. _ _
I actually didn't hear, I didn't hear the whole song until I got to the video shoot.
_ And that was very confusing.
_ If it, if it looked like I was, like I didn't know where the hook came at any point in that
video, that's because I really fucking didn't.
Because when I was doing the hook, it didn't have no verses on it.
I didn't even, oh man, it was just, it was a lot.
A lot. _ _ _ _
Great song though.
You know, the final product I thought was great.
Great fucking concept.
I mean he got some dudes from France to do the shit, I mean it was, it was genius.
I'd need them dudes but they'd be fucking expensive.
The way he flipped the Michael Jackson sample too was brilliant.
And you know what, the whole time, and the whole time I was doing the hook, that sample
wasn't even in there.
The sample wasn't even in there.
That wasn't even a part of the beat when I was doing the goddamn song.
That part, that, he didn't put that in there until I got to the video shoot.
It was weird as shit.
He was like, you need to hear the song?
I'm like, nah, I heard it, I did it.
He was like, nah, you might want to hear the song. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I mean shit was funny as hell.
But you know, it worked.
Hey shit, ain't got no problem with it.
Ain't got no problem with nothing. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's a lot of fans.
The guy sold what?
About damn near 800,000 [B] the first week.
So it's a lot of fans that like Drake [Bb] singing. _
[C] You know what I'm saying?
[N] And I think that's all he gives a damn about.
Yeah, I don't_
He's not signed to Good Music.
Yeah man, I mean, I look into changing to my [E] Good Music brother.
_ I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know the _ [C] paperwork scenario of it, but I mean, [Bm] we're all seasoned artists, man. _
_ _ You had an interview at one point where you said, _ I'm reading it right now, I said I don't
think Future gets the technology very well, I don't think he understands how it actually works.
He's writing great songs, he's a great writer, but you know you could use Auto-Tune and you
know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
_ _ _ Yeah, I don't think he gets the technology, I mean nobody does.
Anybody that uses Auto-Tune, I can firmly say that nobody has looked into Auto-Tune
the way I have.
_ _ _ You know what I'm saying, I've looked into Auto-Tune, I've literally met _ _ the inventor
of Auto-Tune.
I've talked to him about the way that Auto-Tune was invented.
Auto-Tune was invented by this guy who used to be an oil digger.
This guy used to work on an oil rig and they used to send sonar signals and tones down
in the ground and if it came back a different tone up to where your equipment was, then
that means you, that determines if you got oil or not.
So you send a signal and if it comes back a different tone, then it changes the tone,
like oil will change the tone.
So it's like he used that same math to make Auto-Tune and it's like you send a tone into
Pro Tools and it sends you the right tone back and a lot of math went into that shit
and just some shit that's more complicated than it would take us a billion minutes to
fucking explain this shit to regular motherfuckers.
But _ I really studied this shit and I know for a fact that nobody has sat down in the
studio and studied this shit that much.
Nobody has done that because it happened too fast.
They didn't have time to do it.
I studied Auto-Tune two years before I used it once and I know it happened too fast.
Because after I used it, niggas just started coming out of nowhere.
So it happened too fast for them to know how this shit works.
And I know I studied this shit and I know the technology.
I know why it catches certain notes.
I know why it doesn't catch certain notes.
I know why this shit works the way it works and I know niggas ain't did that, for sure. _ _
Well you know when Kanye did 808s and Heartbreaks, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and he used Auto-Tune, a lot of people really
kind of went down on him.
Came down hard on him over using it.
Because I mean honestly I feel that Kanye's use of Auto-Tune wasn't as good as your use of it.
_ The crazy thing was I worked on 808s and Heartbreaks with Kanye.
I went down to Hawaii for like ten days with that nigga.
And _ _ Kanye actually told me himself, you know like my album, Rapper Turned Singer, he said
I listened to your album Rapper Turned Singer, I heard all those songs, I fucking love your
album Rapper Turned Singer, I think you a genius, blah blah blah.
He went through this whole spiel.
He said but what I figured out, that Rapper Turned Singer is just a bunch of love songs
with a shitload of bass in them.
_ _ And I'm like well love songs _ is like Heartbreaks and the shitload of bass is the 808s.
_ So you calling your album 808s and Heartbreaks because you making a bunch of love songs with
a shitload of bass in them?
And he basically was like yeah pretty much, that's what I'm, yeah, that's it.
_ And I respect that shit but it's like _ _ the praise that he got from it was like oh my
god this is so creative, this is the new shit, this is the shit.
And I'm like well what happened to 2005 when I dropped Rapper Turned Singer and it was
the same album?
That's kind of weird.
_ You know what I'm saying?
It just felt like I was unappreciated and anything like that.
I mean any _ originator of anything is going to be the lesser known and you know what I'm
saying because it's the newest thing and that's just not, you know, I mean it's not right
but that's just how shit goes.
Good Life, that was one of my favorite Kanye songs ever.
Like y'all two were brilliant on that.
Yeah man it actually took us like, oh man, it took us like five weeks to do that song.
I've never taken, that's the one song in my entire life that has taken me that long to do.
And Kanye just wanted me to do, like, the hook that's on that song, that I, I go from
my, I got this high, that's how you'll have, that is, that one hook _ is made of seven hooks
that I did.
Like it's, and it's not even the whole seven hooks, it's just like pieces from every hook
that I did on that song.
Actually the bridge on that song, the better than the life I live, and I thought that I
was gonna go crazy.
That thing, that was one of the hooks that I did.
So it's not even like, I don't know, that song was very fucking confusing. _ _
I actually didn't hear, I didn't hear the whole song until I got to the video shoot.
_ And that was very confusing.
_ If it, if it looked like I was, like I didn't know where the hook came at any point in that
video, that's because I really fucking didn't.
Because when I was doing the hook, it didn't have no verses on it.
I didn't even, oh man, it was just, it was a lot.
A lot. _ _ _ _
Great song though.
You know, the final product I thought was great.
Great fucking concept.
I mean he got some dudes from France to do the shit, I mean it was, it was genius.
I'd need them dudes but they'd be fucking expensive.
The way he flipped the Michael Jackson sample too was brilliant.
And you know what, the whole time, and the whole time I was doing the hook, that sample
wasn't even in there.
The sample wasn't even in there.
That wasn't even a part of the beat when I was doing the goddamn song.
That part, that, he didn't put that in there until I got to the video shoot.
It was weird as shit.
He was like, you need to hear the song?
I'm like, nah, I heard it, I did it.
He was like, nah, you might want to hear the song. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I mean shit was funny as hell.
But you know, it worked.
Hey shit, ain't got no problem with it.
Ain't got no problem with nothing. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's a lot of fans.
The guy sold what?
About damn near 800,000 [B] the first week.
So it's a lot of fans that like Drake [Bb] singing. _
[C] You know what I'm saying?
[N] And I think that's all he gives a damn about.
Yeah, I don't_
He's not signed to Good Music.
Yeah man, I mean, I look into changing to my [E] Good Music brother.
_ I don't know.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know the _ [C] paperwork scenario of it, but I mean, [Bm] we're all seasoned artists, man. _