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T-Pain Shines Bright as the BET Award’s Ringleader/Mad Scientist
T-Pain played a big role in last night’s BET Awards. The Rick Ross/DJ Khaled portion of the Ringleader act was a front row seat at the circus; the Mad Scientist in Lil Wayne’s act was diabolical! Take away T-Pain’s willingness to be the Ringleader and you’re talking a dip 6 decibels on the ‘excitement’ meter.
I had the chance to speak to T-Pain when he first hit the scene. Asked him what he was going to do when his album drops and people hear his voice without the vocoder effect. The assumption being he couldn’t possibly plan on recording 12 songs straight with a special effect ‘hiding’ his voice.
He didn’t quite know how to answer that question. He simply said people would be stupid not to like him without it. Well T-Pain hasn’t had to test that theory. He has embraced being the Auto-Tune king.
Luckily he backs it up with great hooks (Flo-Rida owes him everything) and with hit seeking artists seemingly jumping on Auto-Tune too, T-Pain has the benefit of being the first to do it; whenever you hear that synthesized warble it’s a sounds like T-Pain thing.
But he has actually gone beyond that.. T-Pain is now a full-fledged character.
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Who else could pull off a Top Hat and own the look?
The formerly animated Busta Rhymes must be proud.
quit hatin keep doing you t pain
Thats right T-Pain keep having dummies like wb buy your no talent music. If they are dumb enough to buy it I’d keep making that shit too.
oh that was a T pain performance i 4got dis nigga aint no artist he a hook man he cant even sing i got da program that make u sound just like him but aye do what u do nigga he wont last long
What does he do? He is nothing more than Flava Flav. Now that music has gotten so bad hype men have cd’s, videos and top 10 hits. 5 or 10 years from now I might have enough talent to get into the industry.
T-Pain is another one that is getting away with murder. Hiphop needs to start weeding out these frauds.