T-Pain turned off the Auto-Tune and showed off his natural voice on Tuesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Teddy P. took a seat at the piano on the outdoor stage in Hollywood to perform “Drowning Again,” one of the most personal songs off his album rEVOLVEr. Dressed in a leather straight jacket, he returned for his hit “5 O’Clock,” accompanied by Skye of Sophia Fresh.
With his new album rEVOLVEr in stores today, an overjoyed T-Pain sat down with Rap-Up TV in Beverly Hills. The Auto-Tune master was all laughs as he discussed how the project stacks up to his previous works. “I really took my time on this album,” he explained. “Usually it takes me four or five months to make an album. This one took two-and-a-half years. I think I’m this close to perfecting my craft. I haven’t reached my peak yet at all.”
The “5 O’Clock” hitmaker also shed light on what happened to his highly-publicized collaborative album with Lil Wayne. “When [Wayne] got into his litte trouble, that was right at the peak of when we was like, ‘OK, let’s go. Let’s do this now.’ He finally had time, then he went to jail,” said Pain, who recorded eight or nine songs for the project before it was scrapped.
While he’s still up for it, he doesn’t think Weezy is interested. “Things happen and I’m pretty sure he’s over the whole idea now. I don’t even be bringing it up to him no more. I’m pretty sure he’s way past that right now. He’s doing big things.”
However, the two did collaborate for rEVOLVEr on the in-your-face anthem “Bang Bang Pow Pow,” produced by T-Minus. Find out how the collaboration came about.
T-Pain feels the effects of a love “Hangover” in his latest viral video co-starring Skye of Sophia Fresh. The Nappy Boy, whose new album rEVOLVEr arrives tomorrow, wakes up ill after a wild night of partying in the visuals, which he wrote and directed. The Auto-Tuned crooner gazes out the window while pondering what exactly went down the night prior, as photos of the debauchery flash onscreen. Skye, who wakes up in the same bed as T-Pain, heads to the bathroom for a similar moment of introspection. Find out what happens the morning after.
T-Pain is letting fans get an advance listen to his fourth album rEVOLVEr before it arrives next Tuesday. The Auto-Tune master has unleashed a full stream of the LP, serving up cuts including “It’s Not You (It’s Me)” featuring Pitbull, the Chris Brown-assisted “Look at Her Go,” and “Turn All the Lights On” with Ne-Yo. Preview the 13-track set below.
T-Pain turned late night to early morning on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Accompanied by his band and backup singers, the Florida native kicked off the promo for his new album rEVOLVEr by performing his Lily Allen-sampled single “5 O’Clock.” He also showed off his real voice in a skit for comedy website Funny or Die. Wonder what he sounds like without the Auto-Tune? You’ll be surprised.
T-Pain gets liquored up and feasts on the eye candy on the wobbling “Look at Her Go,” his second collaboration with Chris Brown off his new album rEVOLVEr (Dec. 6). Breezy comes through with an Auto-Tuned verse on the trunk-rattling banger, produced by Billboard. “Drop it like it’s hot,” commands Teddy P. Report to the dance floor.
T-Pain is enamored by the booty on the stomping “Look at Her Go,” his second collaboration with Chris Brown off rEVOLVEr, dropping December 6. The Tallahassee rapper previews 90 seconds of the song, produced by Billboard. In addition, he serves up teasers of the Young Fyre-produced “Default Picture” and “It’s Not You (It’s Me) T-Pain vs. Chucky” featuring Pitbull. Listen to all three snippets below.
Before he was winning Grammys, writing a memoir, and starring in box office hits, Common was a self-proclaimed ladies’ man at Luther High School South in Chicago. In 1989-1990, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. was a basketball player who freestyled in gym class and eventually opened for N.W.A. On the latest episode of MTV’s “When I Was 17,” he recalls the time he tried to remove his braces and how he dated two girls at once.
T-Pain has come a long way since 2002. The Tallahassee native looks back on harder times when he was living out of his 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass and almost got robbed while making out in the back seat. Find out how he paid to keep the lights on and how he met his future wife Amber.
