T-Pain announces "D.O.A." and Introduces the "T-Pain Effect"

By The Music Scoop
JR Staff Writer

By 2008, T-Pain had become one of the top figures in hip hop and R&B. He was featured on songs with all of the top artists in the game. The trademark sound from T-Pain was the auto-tune. Having not been used since the days of Teddy Riley, people credited T-Pain with bringing it back.

However, at the peak of his career, T-Pain decided to take a short break from the game. During this time, Jay-Z decided to return to the game. Only away for two years, Jay-Z watched as the auto-tune had taken over the rap game. This inspired him to record "Death of Auto-tune."

"Death of Auto-tune" stopped T-Pain from recording his album and led to him dissing Jay-Z. The two had a short feud before reconciling. T-Pain decided to take additional time off in order to focus on his comeback. Last summer, he recorded the hook of DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win" and he was featured on his recent hit, "Welcome to my Hood."

Now, T-Pain is preparing his fourth album, RevolveR, which will be released later this year. This album will feature the debut of his new movement, "The T-Pain Effect." T-Pain realized he could not rely on one thing over his entire career, so he is expanding his horizions.

"There's so much different stuff on [RevolveR],” said T-Pain. “I almost confused myself on what I wanted to do because I've gotten such a completely different audience from...the Taylor Swift stuff and the Bud Light commercial and Toshiba...I've just gotten so many other people and so many different audiences. I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time. That got kind of confusing and hard, but it all worked out."

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T-Pain says Drake is Holding Up "Revolver's" album release

By The Music Scoop
JR Staff Writer

After taking some time off, T-Pain is more than ready to release his comeback album. T-Pain took over the game after releasing two popular albums in 2007 and 2008. Initially, he planned to release another album in 2009. But, T-Pain lost all of his buzz when Jay-Z released "Death of Auto-tune."

T-Pain experienced minor success in 2010 with his chorus on the popular DJ Khaled hit, "All I Do is Win." The song was one of the anthems of the summer of 2010. Following the popularity of the single, T-Pain decided to begin working on his next album. He felt it would be best to release the album in 2011.

Currently, T-Pain is waiting on Drake so he can finally release his album. T-Pain said Revolver is complete and he is ready to begin promoting. While T-Pain has been gone from the game, Drake has taken the industry by storm and everyone wants to work with him. On his debut album, Drake discussed his newfound popularity with the veterans.

Over the past few months, Drake has also worked with Jamie Foxx, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, and many other big names. Most recently, T-Pain has called upon Drake and of course he agreed to work with him. But, due to his busy schedule, Drake has not been able to get back up with T-Pain. The only thing standing in the way between the release of T-Pain's new music is Drake giving him his verse for the song. T-Pain has asked the rapper to hurry up so he can release his new album.

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T-Pain prepares New Album

Early in his career, T-Pain made a name for himself for multiple reasons. First, he was the artist who brought the auto-tune back into the game and he was also known for his hit, "I'm In Luv (Wit a Stripper)." Throughout his career, T-Pain has evolved to become one of the biggest names in hip hop. Statistically, his best year was in 2008, but things came crashing down one year later, when Jay-Z returned with "Death of Auto-tune."

While the song was not aimed a T-Pain, it led to a sharp decline in the popularity of his music. The popularity of the song even led to T-Pain pushing the album back until 2010. Weary of the auto-tune backlash, he has changed his style for this new album. He has decided to move along past the auto-tune and to start singing with his own voice. Aside from singing, T-Pain also raps.

Throughout his career, T-Pain has been known for the multiple guest appearances that he has on his albums. Each of his three released albums have had high-profile guest appearances. In return, T-Pain usually does a hook for these artists. While he is still open to doing hooks for other artists, on his new album, not only will T-Pain be ditching the top hat, but he will also be ditching the auto-tune and the multiple guest appearances. He feels that the only way that he can properly handle himself on an album is to do it without any assistance from other artists or instruments.

The fourth album from T-Pain is titled RevolveR and it is expected to be released later on this year.

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