1. T-Pain is known for popularizing creative use of Auto-Tune pitch correction, often used with extreme parameter settings to create electronic-styled vocal performances.
53 Facts About T-Pain
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T-Pain began his recording career as part of the hip-hop group Nappy Headz.
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T-Pain released his debut solo mixtape, Back @ It independently in 2004, and signed with Akon's Konvict Muzik, in a joint venture with Jive Records, the following year.
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In mid-2006, T-Pain began work on his second album, now with the Zomba Label Group as well as his previous labels.
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For two weeks in late 2007, T-Pain was featured on four top ten singles simultaneously on the Hot 100 chart.
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In 2007, T-Pain began work on his third album, Three Ringz with Rocco Valdes, Akon, and Lil Wayne.
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T-Pain appeared again on SNL in February 2009 as a feature in the Digital Short premiere of The Lonely Island's single, "I'm on a Boat," off their album Incredibad.
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T-Pain supported the album in 2009 with his Thr33 Ringz Tour, which included sold-out shows across North America.
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T-Pain collaborated with Taylor Swift for the CMT Music Awards, performing "Thug Story", a parody of Swift's hit single "Love Story".
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T-Pain stated that although he originally wanted to release the album in the summer of 2010, his label had pushed the release forward.
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An iPhone application called "I Am T-Pain", featuring an auto tuner, allowing fans to record and modify their own voice to accompany an instrumental collection of T-Pain's music, was released in September 2009.
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In July 2009, T-Pain endorsed the 2009 T-Pain Killa Cam-Pain, a grassroots effort to help him become elected as president of Florida State University.
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In November 2009, T-Pain released the first single from his fourth studio album, "Take Your Shirt Off".
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T-Pain was later featured on the "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" single in February 2010, which reached number two on the Hot 100.
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In March 2010, T-Pain developed and starred in Adult Swim's animated musical special, Freaknik: The Musical.
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T-Pain released a mixtape on his Nappy Boy label in February 2010, T-Pain Presents: Nappy Boy All Stars Vol.
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In June 2010, T-Pain confirmed that his fourth studio album, now titled Revolver, had been completed and mastered, but that it would not be released until album sales increase.
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T-Pain was featured on the hit single "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled, along with the remix.
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T-Pain was featured on the first single by DJ Khaled called "Welcome to My Hood" off his 2011 album We the Best Forever.
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T-Pain was featured on albums such as Drake's Take Care, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV, and Tech N9ne's All 6's and 7's.
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On January 29,2011, T-Pain was featured on Italian DJ Benny Benassi's song "Electroman", released as the third single in the album of the same name.
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On Twitter, T-Pain stated that he would release his mixtape Prevolver when he got 500,000 followers and release his album Revolver when he got 1,000,000 followers.
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On November 7,2014, T-Pain premiered the intro and title track off of Stoicville.
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On November 21,2014, T-Pain premiered "Coming Home" as the first promotional single in support of Stoicville and made it available for free on his official website.
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On December 9,2015, to mark the one-year anniversary of the most popular Tiny Desk Concert ever and the 10th anniversary of his debut album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, T-Pain performed a short set of some previous hits, along with a cover of "A Change Is Gonna Come" and the premiere of a new song, "Officially Yours".
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On October 27,2016, T-Pain premiered "Dan Bilzerian".
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On February 27,2019, the same day T-Pain was revealed to be the winner of the first season of The Masked Singer, he released a surprise new album titled 1UP and announced a new US tour in support of it.
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In December 2020, T-Pain appeared in ComplexLand virtual event to discuss his thoughts on the future of esports.
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On March 17,2023, T-Pain released On Top of the Covers.
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T-Pain collaborated with Meghan Trainor on the single "Been Like This" from Trainor's sixth album Timeless.
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In February 2024, T-Pain acknowledged that he had ghostwritten music for country singers including Rhett Akins, Luke Bryan, and Dallas Davidson while living in Nashville, Tennessee, for two years, but said that he preferred not to be credited on country songs because of the racism he experienced in the country music industry.
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On September 24,2009, T-Pain joined with iPhone app creator Smule to create a new app entitled "I Am T-Pain" to enable people to use his style of Auto-Tune in karaoke; it was released the following day.
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In May 2009, T-Pain made an appearance on a live-action episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Frylock, where he made his debut as an actor.
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In late 2009, T-Pain developed a concept to create an animated television special, Freaknik: The Musical, which he submitted to Adult Swim.
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T-Pain made his cinema acting debut in the 2010 comedy film Lottery Ticket as a liquor store clerk.
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In November 2016, T-Pain appeared in an episode of the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History as Stevie Wonder.
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T-Pain was the champion of the first season of the Fox reality music competition The Masked Singer as "Monster".
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T-Pain returned as a guest panelist in the sixth episode of season 3.
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T-Pain has confirmed his involvement in the development of the upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto VI, although his role has not been specified.
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In 2024, T-Pain said that country and gospel music were major influences on his music.
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T-Pain mentioned GarageBand and Logic Pro as the software he uses to produce his own beats.
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Musically, T-Pain is best known for popularizing the use of Auto-Tune, a pitch-correcting audio processor, for vocals, with the effect turned up to give the voice a robotic quality.
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T-Pain has used this effect throughout his singing career, starting in 2003.
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T-Pain, who had been looking for a way to make his voice sound unique, was inspired to use Auto-Tune after hearing the Darkchild remix of the 1999 song "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez, which makes occasional use of the effect.
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T-Pain was inspired in part by a similar sound achieved by Roger Troutman in the 1980s and Teddy Riley in the 1990s.
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On March 27,2009, T-Pain was involved in a golf cart accident, the same day he was due for a music video shoot for Lil' Kim's song "Download".
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T-Pain suffered cuts, bruises, and four missing teeth and had emergency dental work done.
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T-Pain is an avid gamer who regularly streams on Twitch.
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T-Pain joined the platform in 2015 and as of 2025 has 1 million followers on the service, while holding numerous events in collaboration with the platform.
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T-Pain is friends with Cr1TiKaL, having appeared in his streams occasionally and stood in for him in a single video in 2025.
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T-Pain has many tattoos, some of which are internet memes or otherwise Internet-related.
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T-Pain subsequently turned himself in to the Leon County Jail on November 2,2007.
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T-Pain was held without bail, but was released three hours later.