Cashavelli.com: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

Eminem - The Warning (Mariah Carey n Nick Cannon diss)

Jay Z’s “D.O.A.” Increases Auto-Tune Sales

While Jay Z’s “D.O.A” [click to listen] calls for the death of the popular audio software program Auto-Tune, the fad is far from dead.

Antares Audio Technologies, the company that created Auto-Tune, revealed to the New York Times that sales of Auto-Tune have in fact increased since the release of Jay Z’s “D.O.A.”.

“The Jay-Z controversy is great,” Marco Alpert, vice president of marketing at Antares, told the New York Times. “We couldn’t buy P.R. like this.”

Originally created to correct a singer’s pitch, Auto-Tune has become heavily used in Hip Hop and R&B. Artists such as Lil Wayne, Kanye West [click to read], and T-Pain have benefited tremendously from Auto-Tune and although Jay-Z [click to read] is hoping the trend comes to an end he is in no way putting down the artists who have profited from it.

"The guys who did, did it great," Jay-Z explained to New York’s HOT97 weeks ago. "Let them guys do it. They got their little niche. Let's move on."

Young Jeezy disses DJ Drama

Ever since a brawl between Young Jeezy's and DJ Drama's camps broke out at a screening of Notorious in Atlanta earlier this year, tension has been building between the rapper and the deejay.

In an upcoming interview in XXL, Jeezy made his discontent with the popular deejay official.

"Drama just started acting like a bitch. Drama wanted to be Khaled, but he didn't want to help nobody," said Jeezy. "He just changed, period. Look at his crew. The same niggas ain't around him. You ain't never been in no streets. I could never have no beef with a nigga like that. He's a cornball.

"You made millions off my mixtapes, to the point where the fuckin' feds scooped you up for bootlegging. I never even made the money he made off of Trap or Die or Tha Streetz Iz Watchin, because they were selling and distributing them and making money," elaborated Jeezy.

The Snowman continued, alleging that Drama charged too much for a mixtape that was going to feature one of Jeezy's artists. "We will never do a mixtape together," announced Jeezy. "I didn't charge that nigga for [contributing a verse to the song '5000 Ones,' on Drama's official debut]. But then when I need [a tape for one of my artists], and you want to charge me $20,000?"

Fortunately, Jeezy has no intention of physical violence. "I'll slap the shit out of Drama. He knows that. He wasn't loyal," said Jeezy, "But me putting my hands on that man ain't gonna make him respect what I'm saying. I'm just not gonna fuck with him anymore."

DJ Drama presumably responded to Jeezy's statements yesterday (July 30) via his Twitter account (twitter.com/DJDRAMA).

"Damn what did I land to? Lol ... it'll get addressed people, don't believe them lies," wrote Drama.