There’s no sound more prominent in rap right now than that of Auto-Tune. Since the mid 2000s, seasoned OGs like T-Pain and Lil Wayne have finessed the vocal effect into a hit-making cheat code. Based ...

Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. These are a few of ...

Even though Auto-Tune had been in music for years, bringing it to the foreground raised new concerns about talent, while the decision of two of rap's biggest stars to start sounding melodic and ...

Elon Musk: space travel entrepreneur, electric vehicle evangelist, meme connoisseur… rapper? I know that it’s April Fools’ Day in some parts of the world already, but this is beyond a joke — Musk, the ...

On this episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq we welcome T-Pain. Together him and Shaq talk about how he mastered autotune, NIL college players vs "getting it out the mud" players, and HILARIOUS WPS vs ...