I just started reading the book today. I'm just in the Dancehall chapter b/c I didn't put much effort in as I hoped to.
Funny, barty makes the idea that this is a Real Man v Cyborg war when Kartel had already been such an amorphous maniac with a ton of natural human vocal control prior to making autotune and also... some of Mavado's biggest hits had autotune present ("Dying" obviously, "Inna Di Car Back", even "On The Rock").
I don't want to pepper my issues all throughout the thread it's just as someone who actually genuinely appreciates and believes in the heart of the theory he proposes, I worry he actually does it slight in some spaces for the sake of spectacle.
Mavado was using autotune in 2007, so far as I can remember.