'I'm not a really big sports guy, but one time management made me redo the Miami Dolphins fight song just so they can get season tickets. 'They weren't working for me, they were just working me,' T-Pain says. He also believed that management would routinely ask him to do things to further their own interests, rather than his. I wasn't ready for millions of dollars right then.' 'I was just sitting outside McDonald's hoping someone would give me a dollar for two cheeseburgers. T-Pain says he and Usher havent spoken about the disparaging Auto-Tune comments: I just moved on. 'I was 19 years old at the time,' T-Pain says. Multiple platinum rated records, two Grammy wins and a laundry list of other awards, the success and accolades came pouring in.īut T-Pain tells Morning Edition's Leila Fadel that he wasn't ready for the massive amount of responsibility – and money – that came with it.

The modulation added to his voice created a texture that was foreign to the industry, and T-Pain's career took off. In an interview with Billboard, Usher responded, saying 'we've spoken since and we're good. T-Pain said Usher's comments on his use of Auto-Tune was the catalyst for a four-year depression. During a recent Visiting Artist Series session, the iconic singer and hitmaker T-Pain talked about how he discovered Auto-Tune, and created a singing-rapping hybrid style that he calls 'Hard&B' in order to stand out in the hip-hop scene.

When you think of the rapper T-Pain, the first word that comes to mind might be auto-tune.Īt the beginning of the 38-year-old rapper's career, he took over the Billboard Hot 100 with his use of the vocal effect. T-Pain says he and Usher haven't spoken about the disparaging Auto-Tune comments: 'I just moved on'. The rapper T-Pain poses with his 2023 album, On Top of the Covers.

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