This seems awfully passive-aggressive and cowardly. So basically his friends can use it, but no one else can? Riiight. Additionally, if artists stop using it JUST because Jay-Z said something, then they are proving themselves to be less autonomous than when they started jumping on the auto-tune bandwagon in the first place.

Jay-Z would’ve been better off keeping with his plan to not use auto-tune rather than recording an anthem heralding its death. It’s self-serving, gimmicky, and not a little hypocritical. He should’ve given us this track last year, but he was too busy recording “Swagger Like Us”.