Why hip hop artist use Robotic effect on Vocals and think it sounds good?

It sounds terrible but they use it often. I'm not a hip hop listener but at work, the coworkers who control the stereo always put it on hip hop so i have to listen. and also MTV always have hip hop videos on it, sometimes i browse mtv just to see if there is anything good... so i land on hip hop videos .





What's the deal with digitally robotizing the vocals? It sounds terrible

Why hip hop artist use Robotic effect on Vocals and think it sounds good?
To be fair its not just the rap/hip hop artists do it. Synthezing voices has been around longer that rap has. Sometimes it is annoying, like that guy t pain whos enitre voice is fake. Someone told him that it would be a good idea to do this, and that person should be slapped. I agree with you on that point. But sometimes it is cool, if its only for a line or so. Much more than that, then it becomes stupid.
Reply:Why do heavy metal artists scream in songs and think it sounds good?





Stop generalizing a whole genre just because of a few songs (the only artist I can think of is T-Pain) you have heard.
Reply:the only person that ever does this(and he does it on *EVERY SONG* he has) is t pain cuz he would be nothin without it. like the person above said, kanye west has a song out where he does he's the only other person i know that used it, and that was his first time
Reply:are u thinking of kanye west??? that song is mad good!
Reply:thats just your opinion that it sounds terrible. Stop being so narrow minded... gosh
Reply:you cant say that all do that cuz the only one that i know who does that is T-Pain..