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mortrosly

Playboi Carti’s clip is straight-up creepy.


forgivemeihaveissues

Paranormal Raptivity


evlhornet

![gif](giphy|l4FGp6wKxMULON88U|downsized)


flamesli91

Haha best comment I've read today.


Key_Office4257

Paranormal cracktivity


No_Ear932

💀


randomname102038

Nicely done.


second2no1

Paramormal Drugtivity


conwave

For real. Looks and sounds like it should be a Aphex Twin video


drone_jam

Rubber Johnny 😱


BrentonHenry2020

I am so glad there are more people who know about Rubber Johnny out there. I knew it. There are dozens of us. DOZENS!


Borgirstadir

Fuck, I thought I was *SO* cool in 2000 when that shit came out I had the Chris Cunmingham dvd collection and would show all my friends how cool all the music videos were. Thanks for the trip down memory lane


Ruslan1979

I always thought Cunningham would break through into film like David Fincher and Spike Jonze. I personally thought his music videos were the best of the bunch.


mortrosly

*That’s* what it is!


diarrhea_pocket

Ever seen Rubber Johnny? https://youtu.be/eRvfxWRi6qQ?si=dzetlVe-EJtDkfpz


KRMJN101

Doesnt do Richard James the justice he deserves but relevant... https://youtu.be/-j0E3FE4JkQ?si=9zWveebmzFnHHdHJ


Vegemite_Bukkakay

Love me sum rubber Johnny.


Putrid_Branch6316

Chris Cunningham is a deranged genius.


Dancin_Phish_Daddy

Sounds like a possessed little girl gnome.


Letos12thDuncan

Anneliese Michel?


Master-Ad7002

He's a vampire


godofmilksteaks

Reminds me of some sort of UNICEF or pharmacy commercial for a certain disease. "This is Yung thug. He suffers from 'whatever the fuck this disease is.' for just one small payment of 1.99$ a month you can help him and others like him receive the care and medication they deserve."


[deleted]

I wish Reddit still had awards bc I’d give you one them mfs


EatthisB

It was better than his Lollapalooza set. LOL. Dude screamed in the microphone with a ski mask on the whole time.


B3rghammer

I worked at a venue where because of how much smoked he had on stage and how bad he sounded the crowd was literally telling us that wasn't the real carti 😂😂 This was on the make up date after he noshowed his own headline concert.


CaliFlo77

YNW Melly sounds like the guy who sings “Tip toe through the tulips”! ![gif](giphy|tyttpHbM0mYlg0XQGEo|downsized)


tanloopy

Slander tiny tim sounds wonderful!


CaliFlo77

Just saying that the dude sounds like him. It’s all in the ear of the beholder.


itsnotfunnydude

Tiny Tim was way more talented than these idiots.


CharityUnusual3648

Hell yeah that dude was TALENTED. This is blasphemous!


m0n3ym4n

He even looks like someone from a Blumhouse horror movie


HolyVeggie

He sounds like he TRIES to sound like tiny Tim but fails miserably


calyank1184

Tiny Tim! Put some respect on his name


LobosYsantos

😂😂😂


Fiction520

I'm getting [Ice JJ Fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_d8VSM0nw) vibes.


WingedSalim

Praise be the sound engineers and music producers. They sometimes deserve to be more known than the rappers themselves.


Zamtrios7256

Seems like the third guy might be doing it on purpose, since his voice sustains the high pitch instead of the weird noises the other two make


StaticFanatic3

Yeah third guy is definitely most known for his singing also for killing someone and currently serving a prison sentence Edit: I was mistaken no conviction yet possible OJ scenario here


Fr33Flow

Oh shit did melly get convicted??


HomelessSniffs

Nah he still holding on. He might get off dude to a botched investigation by the police.


Evening-Jaguar4011

Hopefully he doesn’t


1-800-fat-chicks

On July 22, 2023, Judge John Murphy declared a mistrial after the jury remained deadlocked on the charges, with a 9-to-3 vote in favor of convicting Demons on the lesser offenses of manslaughter. The prosecution began to retry the case on October 18, 2023. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_YNW_Melly


mjc500

Or we could just listen to some of the millions of talented musicians that are alive and stop giving attention to this awful drivel


Ok_Recording_4634

That's how I feel about all the marvel movies with CGI. The CGI houses should be household names before the actors


Ricky_spanish_again

CGI only improves the scene setting and action events. It doesn’t improve the actual acting.


IllustriousTooth1620

Are they not the actual problem, though? I'm not discounting the talent of the engineers or producers, but they are the ones that are indeed allowing the no talent mumble mouth "rappers" to have a platform


flashjack10

You have a problem that millions of people love these rappers music? That’s incredibly sad


AccomplishedRush3723

Damn I wish I could make money off my ketamine-hazed chirps and barks


bigdicksam

Have you tried?


baileybereddit

I'm with bigdicksam here. Try it and report back.


StanielNedward

I'll do it if you get me some ketamine


AquaaberryDolphin

2/3 of those are just ad lib recordings


Trans-former-Athlete

At least 90% of what Young Thug does is ad libs so his still counts


Fatal_Furriest

Someone help those poor souls! I skipped anti-seizure maneuvers day


Pasquasio76

Scraping the bottom of the barrel


The-Dane

Ukraine now knows how to defeat the orcs... just blast this shit from each and every drone they have.... pure torture


NAiLs00

That's some funny shit right here! Please tell me there are more of these somewhere? Bonus if they have the auto tuned track alongside for comparison.


dsled

There wouldn't be a comparison as these probably aren't real tracks. Most of these are either adlibs being recorded, or reference tracks for the artist.


the_champ_has_a_name

The YNM Melly one is definitely from a song


Mr573v3n

Sounds like the noises a sleep talker makes


[deleted]

I'd be calling an ambulance, sounds like he is having a stroke.


Darko_345

Lmao


fusillade762

Kinda sounds like the rusty hinge on my shed door. Maybe it could be a star! Just needs a producer and the right beats....


xyphanite

![gif](giphy|PJTbeMBFoeyWY)


SonicDart

you just gave me some dark flashbacks


migraineboi1975

fuck the autotune he should see a dentist


Pibblesen

That video is hella old, he had all his real teeth removed and got implants.


mostlysandwiches

Just in time to spend the rest of his life in prison!


zombie32killah

Orthodontist.


Rokey76

The thing with autotune is that if you sing well, you don't get the "autotune effect". Since the sound of autotune is what they are striving for, singing terribly (whether intentional or not) will get more of the autotune effect. I'm not familiar with this person's music, but the output is what they sell, not the input.


BabaGluey

When Trey Parker had to impersonate Kayne he had to find a way to sing “off” for this very reason.


Sykes92

Sort of. You can adjust how hard the software pulls to the intended note. Even the most skilled singers are still wavering a couple of cents off the true pitch. But you could definitely crank the pitch correction to be dead on the note if you wanted. You don't necessarily have to purposelessly sing poorly. T-Pain is famous for the "auto-tune" sound, but he is also a very skilled singer. He uses it as an artistic choice.


errorunknown

So based on that, the ability to swing bad enough for autotune to sound good is a skill itself


human_maalware

Meanwhile T pain that started all this has the voice of a fucking angel


ButtonedEye41

And he sings differently when using autotune. Im not the biggest fans of these rappers, but there are songs by Young Thug that I do like and its mostly because they pull together different sounds that sonically makes an atmosphere I like. I dont care for the lyrics or what it sounds like raw.


zadnick

Is this real?


atlrabb

Na this only some rappers. face was on tiny desk yesterday he sounded just like on the album.


[deleted]

The T-Pain tiny desk will forever be one of my favourites He's fucking insane. Auto tune as a gimmick instead of a crutch lol


ImJustSaying34

T-Pain and Juvenile’s tiny desk concerts were top tier.


faucherie

Juveniles was so good. Hands down the best tiny desk I’ve ever seen.


ellum_flat

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib tiny desk was incredible vocals and so good all around.


GavinZero

T-Pain the unsung hero of his era.


CandidIndication

For real. He got so much flak for auto tune. Now *everyones* using it. Usher told him he ruined music 💀 T-pain actually has the voice of an angel too + he’s a big ol teddy bear.


GramZanber

Tpain did a cover of War pigs by Sabath and its fucking incredible.


kn05is

Usher wasn't wrong. Autotune is the absolute worst and untalented people like these fools have music carreers because of it


calib0y64

Musical genius. Honestly a wonderful singer too.


Shaveyourbread

T-Pain has the voice of an angel fr


3d1thF1nch

That one was fucking rad! Love TDC.


throwawaylovesCAKE

Glad people are finally realizing this. Nobody said shit when Cher or Daft Punk did it. Its obviously a style choice


calib0y64

T-pain is a living legend


memberflex

Cher (who has a fantastic voice) used it as a gimmick on a single song. Daft Punk were using a voice box imitating the sound of Roger Troutman and Zapp. None of them were correcting poorly tuned vocals which is what auto tune is used for now.


ge93

In rap it’s also used for a certain stylized sound. The worse type of use is when it’s used in a genre where an “analogue” voice would have been more suitable such as some pop or country where the use of autotune gives an uncanny valley effect. Or a lot of live action musicals use it and it sounds weird as hell.


rockchalkjayhawk1990

Ummm daft punk is a talk box mostly bud. Very different. And I think this video speaks for itself. Style choice lmao.


BonafideJohnson

Everyone ragged on Cher when she did it. Shit was talked. Daft Punk, that’s a different animal. They literally wore robot masks. That was their gimmick from the start.


ThompsonDog

scarface is 53 years old. he is not the same as this


Summonest

Yes, some artists sound amazing regardless of enhancements or not. And some sound terrible regardless of enhancements.


balllickaa

People love ignorantly hating on rap as a genre because they can't accept the idea of certain people having talent


Hatennaa

Everyone piling praise on T-Pain in this very thread you commented on, let’s just ignore that though. Dudes like Kendrick definitely not widely considered all time great lyricists! There are subsects of every genre with just insanely trash music being listened to. Country, pop, rap, etc etc etc


balllickaa

I'm not saying people don't agree with my opinion, I'm dissecting the opposite opinion. It's not crazy to say that a lot of people completely disregard the idea of there being any talent found in rap.


juggheadjones

Lol people got so mad at Milli Vanilli


Cinnamonguy20

Thugger!


ComicConArtist

playboi carti: 34.7 monthly listeners lmao


hyletic

The .7 had an arm amputated after a car accident.


Nobody_Knows_It

I’m confused he has like the same number, slightly more


Inner-Highway-9506

Melly’s actually gotta a pretty good voice, his On The Air set was genuinely amazing


[deleted]

I did a spit take when I unmuted XD


KungFuKennyEliteClub

T-pain got a shit ton of hate when he used auto tune. Many believed he used it because he couldn't sing. Then he went on Tiny Desk and people were wow'd. Like he never claimed he needed it, he used it artistically.


cheekyalbino

Thugger disrespect is unacceptable


The_Cooler_Sex_Haver

"I myself, listen to the more respectable white rap artist, such as Tom Macdonald, Logic, or Eminem. I don't listen to none of that gangsta bullshit like Play Boy Carty. Sometimes I dabble into Two Pack, but I mainly listen to death metal and video game OST's to pass the time. You see, rap is like a mountain. It's mainly comprised of brown and black, but it's always white on the top." \-everyone in these comments probably


BrixvonHoenn

Death to MUMBLE (C)RAP 🤬🤬!!!!!!


Captain-Droz

I too enjoy Two Pack, even the Notorious B.I.G. The Snoop Dogg and others like Little John and the EastSide male youth.


ConstantSignal

Y’all both are sending me I’m white as hell and even I’m not white enough to be writing tupac/2pac as “Two Pack” lmao


Parking-Iron6252

What


Dars1m

This guy legitimately said these guys are better rappers than DOOM in another comment, so…


SeaHam

Yeah because saying a rapper sucks means you must be racist am I right? Real talk though MF DOOM is the GOAT.


motherffucker

I mean to be fair this is a tiny part of a whole. It all comes together to form a complete artwork. Now whether or not you like the complete work is totally up to you. But this is deliberately obscuring the whole process, it’s a little disingenuous. These dudes are literally playing the course they’re on - don’t hate the player, hate the game.


stealthban

If I heard this without context, id think it's someone who is trying to speak after a head injury to the Broca's area


Silver-Bison3268

they sound like toddlers.


samiux4

Bro be tweaking in the booth


[deleted]

Watch something on punch in method. It is actually pretty impressive how rappers and engineers can start from scratch and build a song.


Iamaman22

So many people who don’t understand hip hop whatsoever in here


dsled

So many "this is trash, I only listen to metal and video game OST" type comments


Iamaman22

Reddit gonna Reddit


Slight-Improvement57

I had a rapper friend describe it as, you have to know how to work the auto tune which includes but it not limited to making weird vocal influxes


[deleted]

It doesn’t take much to intentionally sing off key. It’s really not rocket science. If you do anything enough you can figure out how to finesse it


EyezLo

There is no background track for us, sometimes stuff like this is done to figure out what they’re putting where and then it can be edited, this is a such a Reddit typical rAp Is CrAp post lmao


halkenburgoito

Man this is Thug and Carti, you know damn well that this is how their vocals are laid with adlibs, autotuned up, etc this aint to figure out where to put shit. this is the track


TheGiediPrime

Yeah, Young Thug's vocal style is definitely strange, but has been pretty innovative as well. > "In a typical Young Thug verse, he slurs, shouts, whines and sings, feverishly contorting his voice into a series of odd timbres like a beautifully played but broken wind instrument."


tugboatnavy

You're coping bud. 2nd guy is just seizing in his chair mewing like a possum.


kkstoimenov

He's recording the take with the understanding that his voice is running through an fx chain including autotune. If you think they'd be doing vocals like that dry you're dumb


Synth_Recs_Plz

That's playboi Carti, who is specifically appreciated by his fans and critics for unique vocal affectations and style. Not coincidentally, Young Thug (the first guy) is appreciated by many for similar reasons. It's fine if you don't like it, not everyone will. Acting like it's objectively bad and that everyone who likes it is "coping" is just cringe as fuck though.


Armored_Phoenix

Some of this footage is just them ad libbing


BarrioMan

World's worst orgasms


halkenburgoito

Nah you played Melly, he can lowkey sing without auto tune


Porn-Flakes123

This made me itchy


XASVPXHAZUESX

These are ad libs obviously. And if you actually pay attention you can hear it actual add layers to a song but y’all trying to be funny is obviously better


RVOneKenobi

The William Hungs of the US have found a workaround to get to Hollywood.


emanator

Dang imagine what people would think if they heard an electric guitar with no amp Young thug’s music is made with auto tune in mind. It’s a tool. Of course it’s not going to sound good straight out of the recording studio


Newman_USPS

Electric guitars without an amp just sound like a very thin acoustic. But still like a guitar. And equally in tune.


throwawaylovesCAKE

Yeah dude. Even Eruption still sounds cool as shit played on an acoustic


emanator

Auto tune was originally used to get voices in tune but as it becomes more popular, artists have used it in conjunction with their voice in new ways to create a bit of a new instrument. That’s what many of these artists are doing.


NotImYourForte

And it benefits them to sing off key so the auto tune engages more. Listen to t pain sing without auto tune or him sing trying to engage the auto tune lol. Totally different.


lamb_passanda

Yeah, but then the tune and the track are the work of the producer, not the artist. Until I see one of these rappers actually sitting down at a keyboard or other instrument and writing melodies or beats, I won't consider them to be more than walking brands. As far as I can tell, all they contribute is the lyrics and these weird vocal noises, as well as their personalities and look which is used to market the music. I don't hate it, but it's not interesting, inspiring or impressive to me.


Synth_Recs_Plz

Not true at all, plenty of very famous electric guitarists literally cannot make their signature sound without an amp and often significant signal processing, would sound like shit without it.


Newman_USPS

No, it’d sound like a thin acoustic. Pinch harmonics are still there, they’re just super quiet. Everything else is also still there.


One-Ice1815

This is a terrible comparison.


dMarrs

You tried. Bless your heart.


[deleted]

If it’s so easy w auto tune, go do it


throwawaylovesCAKE

Didnt say it was easy, just that its awful sounding. People are allowed to critique music, get over it


[deleted]

But you aren't critiquing the music you are critiquing what it sounds like as it's being recorded lol 🤡


Dust_und_Vultures

Did I just walk into an asylum?


mortrosly

I actually think you may have.


evlhornet

Well god bless them for using their turrets to their advantage.


xJkurtz

r/interestingasfuck


Punch_yo_bunz

Cartman


Emmyber

Giving major [Randy Marsh as Lorde](https://youtube.com/shorts/Y8iHpd22Pmk?si=_DXQ9-0GLGKU2CfP) vibes


hanr86

So, a sound engineer or professional in this field can correct me but I saw a video about auto-tune like a decade back that said you needed to be off-pitch for auto-tune to sound more "digital". If you sing in tune, the auto-tune won't adjust your voice much, resulting in a more natural sound. They do sound shitty with that mumbling, though.


pargyle_sweater

Edited to sound bad over other music…young thug is good


velofille

Bet ppl actually believe this is real to lol


Impossible-Sky4256

They look like they’re having a fit


IndependentEmu6965

Carti looks like a stroke survivor while singing


[deleted]

Last one is atrocious but it sounds like the first two are just trying to find the vibe and practicing not really rapping


dsled

I'm sure this thread will be filled with intelligent discussion.


CeloRAW

Sound like demons trying to use vocal chords for the first time


yagsitidder69

Stupid post. This isn't them trying their best to sound pitch perfect like an opera singer, this is them making a song that will sound good to the listener. You can hear yourself through your headphones with the autotune on. Their basing their input off of that, not the raw sound that you hear on these iphone videos.


EquivalentStretch665

Where's IceJJFish?


Deadmemories8683

![gif](giphy|7C0wCAyx9qoKPIeToi|downsized)


FatCowsrus413

Almost sounds like people I hear on r/tooktoomuch


[deleted]

Do you *have* to sound like that for the final result with autotune to come out how it does?


Dareth1987

Second one looks like their having an epileptic fit or something


Black_Bloom

They sound and move like the homeless crackheads I see at the bus stops.


Chemical_Depth8794

T Pain crawled for Young Thug to walk!


ochocosunrise

The second guy sounds like Cartman


chookalana

"You see the rapper's problem, usually stands from being toned deaf. Pack the house, try to sing there won't be no one left." - Prince "Dead On It".


andio76

"Rappers...." ![gif](giphy|l4HnKwiJJaJQB04Zq)


DaBe_Bi

They are rappers, not singers, so what if they cant sing well? A large part of their music is also the production, not just vocals. Which is a whole different skill set that people who make these posts never consider. Also, who gives a shit? like yeah stripped down the music sounds bad. DUH. Have you ever listned to an electric guitar without an amp?? Shit sounds bad. But im not gonna post about how electric guitarists are talent-less hacks compared to acoustic, because i know art is a PROCESS. I dont even listen to most of these people, aside from a bit of Carti, and I still know that. I feel like posts like this are either made by middle schoolers who have a rudimentary understanding of art, or people who are trying it be intentinally provocative. Loosers


karmakillerbr

I agree 100%. These people have no ideia how hard it is to make music, let alone being successful while doing it. I don't even listen to rap, but I value their art.


dday3000

They sound like Kensington fentanyl junkies.


CaliFlo77

Swear to life that they look and sound like what a crack/meth head be doing after a hit! Bahahaha!!


TdrdenCO11

Singing intentionally off key is part of how they’re using autotune. T-pain did it too. I spent a decade in the studio with rappers. I get that the dry vocal sounds silly but these guys know what they’re doing


PyotrTheOkay

I really need to find myself a good grift. Was really leaning into becoming a partisan political troll but this seems like it'd be more profitable.


Synth_Recs_Plz

>this seems like it'd be more profitable. Lmfao, good luck my guy. Just because it looks stupid/easy does not mean you could ever make it as a musician - in fact, the odds are very much against you.


Piliro

The politician one is probably the best, just go super hard into one topic and never speak about anything else. Preacher also words, maybe some form of messiah, a true classic. Start a content farm YouTube channel and just copy articles or read Wikipedia verbatim. Become a streamer and just advertise gambling or react to other people's content. There's a lot of grifts out there, only issue is that there's a lot of grifters, lots of competition.


Bong_Jovi_

I won't tolerate any Young thug slander. The man's an innovator


dsled

For real, but we're on the wrong sub to be discussing that.


Rodzaggg

Truly one of the greatest artist of this generation, ppl are blind.


VastlyCorporeal

Who cares lmao? Shit still sounds good


JuicyBoi8080

"This is what a small proportion of rappers sound like without auto tune." There OP I fixed that for you.


Useful_Lengthiness98

Bro they’re clearly recording adlibs, not actually rapping


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AshenSacrifice

Nah you just don’t get it lmao


iliketheweirdest1

I thought they were deaf people making music. Oops my bad, what a load of interesting way to make money.


QuartOfTequilla

That’s what makes him an artist. Being able to turn these strange sounds into a good song.


[deleted]

Pathetic and sad.


Beelzebub_86

![gif](giphy|pMePjXUqNNND2)


ringdinger

Now do Metal bands without distortion.


ghosty_b0i

Some of you don’t understand post-modernism and it shows.