Yet, he was also the one whose career was blunted while artists that followed him, such as Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Quavo and Lil Uzi Vert, profited from his influence. T-Pain, however, brought Auto-Tune’s abilities to the forefront in the world of hip-hop. 2Pac’s birthday, GOATs and how we get hip-hop wrong.How artists emerged in the late ’90s to challenge the gangsta narrative in hip-hop.An entire generation owes DMX for his lesson in resilience.Hits such as Jennifer Lopez’s “If You Had My Love” and Cher’s “Believe” later employed Autotune’s benefits to runaway success. Roger Troutman of the funk band Zapp famously used Autotune’s forefather, the Talk Box. He was just next in line to become mightily successful because of it.
The tool, which allowed artists to manipulate their voices for exaggerated effects, wasn’t invented by T-Pain.
What has caused him to be both revered and mocked was his use of Auto-Tune. He had 17 Top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 20. The worst part - the part he still struggles with - is that recompense will never happen. Instead, T-Pain set the groundwork for an entire ecosystem and paid the price for it. T-Pain didn’t destroy the industry as Usher reportedly remarked, especially not one that notoriously creates and swallows artists to advance its own interests. The thirst for his music will likely never be what it once was two decades ago when he had one of the greatest runs of the 2000s. He’s become a sacrificial lamb for an element of the world of hip-hop and R&B that’s still prevalent. There’s an undeniable element of melancholy in it. Calling out Usher by name doesn’t come off as bitter as much as it shows an artist, once one of the biggest in the world, who is still grappling with where it all went wrong. T-Pain, still one of the more engaging and likable personalities in pop culture, has been reflecting on this particular memory for years now.
I thought he was joking at first, but then he was like, ‘Yeah, man, you really f-ed up music for real singers.’ ” And he was like, ‘Man, I’m gonna tell you something, man. He recalled a 2013 conversation with the Confessions singer aboard a flight to the BET Awards that T-Pain says sent him spiraling into a four-year depression. The news he made this week follows a decadelong trend of the self-proclaimed rapper-turned-singer’s search for clarity.įeatured in the recently released Netflix eight-part docuseries This Is Pop, T-Pain’s comments about R&B superstar Usher elicited a round of spirited reactions. T-Pain’s laughed a lot over the years, but he’s been no stranger to voicing his mental anguish either. If laughter is the best form of medicine, that’s only because it hides pain.
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