It Was Crazy- T-Pain Admits Getting Paid When Other Artists Used Auto Tunes
T-Pain has confirmed that he used to get a payout every time an artist would use Auto-Tune, having to admit those early stages of his career were a “crazy” time.
The remarks were made alongside DJ Drama on T-Nappy Pain’s Boy Radio podcast, where the former praised JAY-2009 Z’s track “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” as one of his favourites.
T-Pain clearly had a lot to say about Drama’s choice, given that he previously admitted he took the song personally due to his own heavy reliance on Auto-Tune at the time. The Florida native, however, admitted that the use of Auto-Tune in music has since been “resuscitated” in full force.
“That shit came out of everywhere after that,” T-Pain said at the 34-minute mark. “I don’t think it worked out the way he thought it was gonna work out.”
“Is it true that there was a point and time where you got paid off of anytime anyone would use Auto-Tune?” Drama interjected.
“Yeah,” T-Pain said. “Absolutely. It was nuts, it was real crazy. Some people volunteered and some people didn’t know, so that was great. Diddy volunteered. Diddy gave me points on Last Train To Paris ’cause he used Auto-Tune.
“It’s on video! I still have the video on a hard drive right now of Diddy writing a contract on a napkin in the studio saying he was gonna give me a point on Last Train To Paris and we both signed it.”
“That’s insane,” Drama replied.
Source – Tru News Report
