“Last month, Jay-Z (who we hear might play a surprise show tonight) released the single “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” and killed the Pro Tools plug-in forever — or did he? Marco Alpert, vice-president of marketing at software company Antares, tells the Times that sales of Auto-Tune are way up. “The Jay-Z controversy is great. We couldn’t buy P.R. like this.” Nice going, Hov!”

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“Ghostface Killah said hello to the world with the very first verse on the very first Wu-Tang album, became a god to rap nerds with Supreme Clientele, and reached an all-time critical peak with the dope-dealing sagas on 2006′s Fishscale. Next up is a bit of a curveball — September’s The Wizard of Poetry will be an R&B-heavy affair, featuring collaborations with the likes of Raheem DeVaughn, Estelle, and John Legend. Ahead of his show at the Nokia Theater tonight, Ghost chatted with Vulture about mellowing out, rapping at seventy, and the appropriate way to sing about crack-slinging on an R&B album.”

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