What happened to T - Pain?

[DeVanteSwing]

T pain gets played by me to this day, not the newer stuff though. I can't sit here and act like I wasn't listening to bartender 2 seconds ago

 

[ThaRealness]

Nah, Wayne, Dispet, Kanye, and TI >

you right maybe my timing is a little off. it wasn't until like 07-08 that hip hop was really in the gutter... even then Wayne was holding it down

all Im saying is the run that hip hop had in 03/04 (starting with Get Rich Or Die Trying & ending with College Dropout) was crazy. That was the height of commercial rap.. for like a year hip hop was the only genre that mattered in the mainstream
it was mostly quality music too I still bump Chicken & Beer, Speakerboxxx/love below, College Dropout etc

 

[Poitier]

you right maybe my timing is a little off. it wasn't until like 07-08 that hip hop was really in the gutter... even then Wayne was holding it down

all Im saying is the run that hip hop had in 03/04 (starting with Get Rich Or Die Trying & ending with College Dropout) was crazy. That was the height of commercial rap.. for like a year hip hop was the only genre that mattered in the mainstream
it was mostly quality music too I still bump Chicken & Beer, Speakerboxxx/love below, College Dropout etc

I'd say 08 and it hasn't come back since.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

So he CHOSE to not drop a hit in 3 years?

that song with Wiz?

Dude also has another song bubbling

 

[ThaRealness]

I'd say 08 and it hasn't come back since.

I mean its definitely improved since the ringtone era. hip hop was actually looking promising in 2012. theres a serious problem with originality though.

the only artists that are living up to the hype are the niche, weirdo rappers danny brown & earl sweatshirt. Like no one can just come through with some wavy shyt

schoolboy q the waviest in the game & he's released like 4 disappointing singles

 

[Poitier]

I mean its definitely improved since the ringtone era. hip hop was actually looking promising in 2012. theres a serious problem with originality though.

the only artists that are living up to the hype are the niche, weirdo rappers danny brown & earl sweatshirt. Like no one can just come through with some wavy shyt

schoolboy q the waviest in the game & he's released like 4 disappointing singles

Not a big fan of Earl or Danny Brown. I hate rappers who pander their Blackness to hipsters. I actually like snap music, but I'm from Atlanta so of course I think Fabo > most new rappers

plus the snap music era was incredibly short

 

[ThaRealness]

Not a big fan of Earl or Danny Brown. I hate rappers who pander their Blackness to hipsters. I actually like snap music, nut I'm from Atlanta so of course I think Fabo > most new rappers

plus the snap music era was incredibly short

im not a fan either but they seem to be meeting expectations & not letting their fans down

Ringtone rap also refers to all that melodramatic synthpop bullshyt that came out around 07-08. overall a definite low point for hip hop

there were some jams though

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[ThaRealness]

Not a big fan of Earl or Danny Brown. I hate rappers who pander their Blackness to hipsters. I actually like snap music, nut I'm from Atlanta so of course I think Fabo > most new rappers

plus the snap music era was incredibly short

I mean if you absolutely hate the hipster influence in hip hop theres not much to say. cause Danny Brown & Earl Sweatshirt thrive off of that

 

[Poitier]

I mean if you absolutely hate the hipster influence in hip hop theres not much to say. cause Danny Brown & Earl Sweatshirt thrive off of that

It makes me sick, especially since Hipsters are controlling the narrative in Rap right now. Fader, Complex, and Vice are literally deciding which unknown artist gets national coverage out of thin air. Dudes who have no buzz or are friends of the editors getting 15 articles a week talking about how great they are until dumb, mindless readers eat it up.

 

[UpAndComing]

Future happened to T-Pain
And Rich Home Quan happened to Future

 

[ThaRealness]

It makes me sick, especially since Hipsters are controlling the narrative in Rap right now. Fader, Complex, and Vice are literally deciding which unknown artist gets national coverage out of thin air. Dudes who have no buzz or are friends of the editors getting 15 articles a week talking about how great they are until dumb, mindless readers eat it up.

ya I feel you. hipsters get to have the most influence in music right now (not just hip hop), because they spend all their time on the internet trying to determine which artists are the most creative/groundbreaking . life isnt fair

the only genre hipsters aren't influencing is EDM... because they never actually go out and do shyt

 

[nairdas]

his writing and producing is what was bringing in the money for him. He can't sing, but he can write and arrange a hit

T-Pain still drops good music, but nowadays he does much more rapping, so it's coming full circle for him since that's how he came up. He's probably just chillin and making money every time an arena plays All I Do Is Win

I disagree with that he cant sing part. I heard him live without autotune and he's legit. I mean he doesn't have the best voice in the world, but he definitely can sing.

And I still fukk with him. That Rap Song single he had a couple years ago was cold as fukk.

 

[Wild self]

I'd say 08 and it hasn't come back since.

Yeah, like "Fry Dat Chicken" is popular now

The likes of K-Dot having a platinum album and Cole outselling Kanye proves that it is improving my wide margins.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

The two biggest hip hop artist of the last era were Ye and Weezy and both those dudes pretty much just yoinked T-Pain's whole swag since like 08. And then you take a step back and look at what the rap game as a whole was like during that time and you realize how much of a MAJOR player T-Pain really was.

So without T-Pain that entire era goes down a different path.