THE SADNESS OF T-PAIN

[How Sway?]

appers are supposed to be immune to hate. Even Drake, who is famously unafraid to appear sensitive and vulnerable in his songs, never wavers on this: haters are losers who do not deserve his attention. “Got one reply for all of your comments: fukk what you think,” as he put it on last year’s “Tuscan Leather.”

T-Pain was never very good at being a rapper. He tried to be, when he was just starting out. But, as he told me in a recent interview, he ultimately decided to break into hip-hop as a singer instead. The move worked: T-Pain’s first album, the aptly named “Rappa Ternt Sanga,” released in 2005, made the chubby twenty-year-old from Tallahassee a star. Before long, he was generating one hit single after another, both on his own and as a featured guest alongside heavyweights like Kanye West, R. Kelly, and E-40. Even at the height of his celebrity, he never acted tough or particularly cool; his trademark accessories were a giant top hat and Oakley sunglasses that made him look like a snowboarder. Lately, T-Pain has been doing something even more unorthodox in hip-hop: telling sad stories, in public, about what it felt like when everyone, including some of his fellow-artists, started treating him like a joke.

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[riddlerap]

interesting.

 

[I AM WE ARE]

is this why he's been in the shadows for awhile, cause for a minute dude WAS EVERYWHERE

 

[Da King]

Everyone still on his nuts biting his style but he gets treated like a played out joke

It's sad how hip hop community did this nikka dirty

Spoiler

 

[riddlerap]

T-Pain goat. he deserves better.

 

[DaveyDave]

he deserves to be treated as a joke for the way he turned Hip Hop into a joke with that fukking auto tune. ecuse me if i don't cry for a multi gajillionaire who spends his money on shyt like this

 

[Juneya]

Lol Bruh kanye west called him to the studio and publicly embarrassed him?! Lol.

Futre brother, casino, told him fukk you and everything you stand for lol

 

[DATMAN$]

He very talented tho unlike future this nikka is a genius

 

[The God Poster]

He very talented tho unlike future this nikka is a genius

Future had a chance to do what he did but better as far as solo. Future tried too hard & switched up now its over

 

[thaKEAF]

At one point during the session, Kanye wrote a song about how dumb all of T-Pain’s ideas were. He then proceeded, T-Pain said, to make “everybody in the studio join in with him to sing, like, ‘T-Pain’s shyt is weak.’ ” In the same interview, T-Pain recalledencountering Future’s brother at a Thanksgiving fundraiser and telling him he was eager to collaborate with Future. But instead of offering to pass on the message, the guy looked at T-Pain and said to him, “My brother would never fukking work with you. fukk you and everything you stand for.”

oh shyt

 

[DaPresident]

Damn, Pain makes pretty decent music once you realized auto tune was being used much more widely once he kinda bought it back...


Dude has hot songs you can't deny even if you tried

 

[DATMAN$]

Future had a chance to do what he did but better as far as solo. Future tried too hard & switched up now its over

exactly but tpain really can sing and future went pop too soon now it's rich home turn hope he do it the right way

 

[RAX 010]

Thus the name T "PAIN"

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

That's fukked up. But karma got Future's ass. Have a baby by a talentless industry thot brehs.

 

[Red Maverick II]

exactly but tpain really can sing and future went pop too soon now it's rich home turn hope he do it the right way

This is a myth

I heard him sing without it, and the struggle never sounded so real