I can't believe you just wrote that... you def sound like an east-coast/boom bap basher. How old are you?
Not true! He made extensive use of internal rhymes ....
Wow .... such a dumb ass, especially since auto-tune has been around way before him.
"Some time ago T-Pain tried to claim payment from other artists using the effect on their vocals."
But those are underground nerdcores ...I was really referring to Gnarls Barkley, NERD/Neptunes, Gorillaz, M.I.A, Asher Roth, Kid Kudi and the likes; not that these acts are garbage but they're definitely the products of Marketing departments.
Music is a reflection of society to some extent. Dumb people want dumb music that's fact. Maybe I refuse to believe the majority of the population is plain ignorant ...eventhough it's been proven many times.