Kanye gave Jay-Z the D.O.A idea

"He (Kanye) actually sparked the idea," Jay-Z told Billboard.com;

"When he heard the beat he said, 'Man, this is just so hard! This has to be against everything -- no auto-tune, none of that type of stuff!' He didn't know what I was going to do or where I was going to take it, but it was actually his fault."

Jay-Z also informed Billboard that him & Yeezy and actually recorded a song using Auto-Tune but once they came up with D.O.A, they felt they had to scrap the song.

"After we made the 'D.O.A.' record about a month ago." Jigga explained, "We were like, 'if it's got to go, it's got to go.'"

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