What Happened Between Usher And T-Pain?
In 2021, T-Pain published on Netflix's This Is Pop that Usher blamed him for ruining music. During the second episode referred to as Auto-Tune, the rapper published the actual story at the back of his use of the pitch corrector — from searching for the device to dealing with international backlash, then quitting music at one point. Here's what really happened to the Buy U a Drank hitmaker's profession.
Why Did T-Pain Get A Lot Of Hate?
In 2014, the New Yorker published an article called The Sadness of T-Pain. There, journalist Leon Neyfakh traced the backlash towards the artist to Jay-Z's 2009 diss track, D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune). It was "intended to draw a line between so-called 'real' hip-hop and poppy soft stuff; it inspired fans to chant 'F--k T-Pain!' during live performances," wrote Neyfakh. However, the Bartender singer doesn't assume it is what fueled all of the hate.
"What started the backlash, as T-Pain sees it, wasn't the Jay Z diss but, rather, so many relentlessly lame performers (Ke$ha, the Black Eyed Peas) being moved to give Auto-Tune a whirl after Rappa Ternt Sanga [T-Pain's debut album] came out," explained the journalist. "Soon, everyone was using Auto-Tune; listeners simply got sick of it, and he became a martyr for having influenced the trend." The criticism additionally took a toll on T-Pain's psychological well being. "I just wasn't proud of myself anymore," he said.
"People can act like, you know, 'I don't care about when people hate on me,' but the second that they do, you feel that!" he laughingly mentioned of his trolls. "Like, that's really somebody saying that shht about you—it's not, like, an artificially generated comment that these people are leaving on these YouTube videos.… When people say I suck and I should kill myself, I don't really feel good about that!" He even fell into melancholy for years after Usher mentioned some issues about his song.
What Really Happened Between Usher & T-Pain?
OnThis Is Pop, T-Pain recalled a flight attendant telling him that Usher sought after to talk to him while on the plane, on their strategy to the 2013 BET Music Awards. "He was like, 'Man, I wanna tell you something, man ... He sounded real concerned. He was like 'Man, you kinda f-f-f-- up music.' I didn't understand. Usher was my friend," he recounted. "He was like, 'No man you really f----- up music for real singers.' Literally at that point I couldn't listen. Is he right? And that is the very moment and I don't even think I realized this for a long time that's the very moment that started like a four-year depression for me."
T-Pain additionally had a an identical come upon with Future's brother. The I Like Dat singer advised him that he wanted to collaborate with the rapper. However, he simply checked out T-Pain and instructed him: "My brother would never f------ work with you. F--k you and everything you stand for." Later on, the Florida local mirrored on those moments, telling New Yorker: "I wasn't getting the credit I felt like I deserved. I was getting sh--ted on. So I was just like, well, I'm not gonna keep doing this if that's all I'm gonna get." That's when he took a break from track.
Where Is T-Pain Now?
In 2014, T-Pain stunned fans with his actual voice sans Auto-Tune all the way through his NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert. After that, enthusiasts were fast to claim that the singer deserved an apology. Many felt like he will have to have got the same popularity as Kanye West who gained praises for his leading edge use of Auto-Tune on his 2008 album, 808s and Heartbreaks. "Don’t think it's fair to blame T Pain tho," wrote a netizen following the discharge of This Is Pop, "auto-tune was always around, think he managed to make some fire hits using it, and those hits still bang… when you innovate anything traditionalist will always have a problem."
During his interview with New Yorker that same 12 months, T-Pain printed that he was once working on new song. "It's gonna be about having a good time, man. And being true to yourself," he mentioned of his then-upcoming album, Stoicville which "is where everybody is stoic—where nobody has emotions. You don't get s--t from anybody in Stoicville. You don't get people saying or doing f--ked up shit to you. Everybody's just stoic. Nobody has emotions and everybody minds their own fucking business. That's the town for me. That's where I want to live."
In April 2022, T-Pain launched a tune video for his new unmarried, That's Just Tips. A few months earlier than that, he declared that he was on a challenge to "bring transparency" again within the music industry. "I don't know why artists and big record companies and labels do this," he explained, "but they like to make it seem like people just drop albums. … 'Yeah I was working on this album last night and now we dropping it today.'" He's pertaining to the "popularity contest" in the industry that has made song "repetitive."
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