Auto-Tune, a digital production tool intended to correct pitch on vocals and instruments, has left its mark on just about every popular song one can listen to in 2023. Though most artists use Auto-Tune and its competitors for minimal, discrete touch-ups, hip-hop artists more than anyone else have pushed the tools to their limits to create an entirely new form of artistic expression.
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By manipulating the speed with which notes are “corrected” to a desired pitch, artists discovered they could use the Auto-Tune feature to produce otherworldly, robotic-sounding distorted effects. Rapper T-Pain leaned heavily into this effect for his own style of R&B which he called R&B, which he called “Hard&B. Others like Lil Wayne, Lil Yachty, and Travis Scott took the drenched Auto-Tune sound and pushed it into new directions.
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