T-Pain "Bigger Than Pain" [Video Doc]

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T-Pain “Bigger Than Pain” (A Worldstar Original Documentary)

T-Pain "Bigger Than Pain" [Video Doc]

T-Pain - Coming Home [OMV]

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Morning Express with Robin Meade is proud to be bringing you an exclusive first listen to singer, rapper, writer T-Pain’s new song “Coming Home.”What started out as a song about coming home to his wife and kids after a long time touring on the road, has turned into a salute to the troops who are serving their country away from their families every day.Download your copy now at TPAIN.com.

T-Pain - Coming Home [OMV]

T-Pain Sings Live without Auto-Tune [Video]

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T-Pain’s fingerprints are all over pop and R&B and hip-hop. He wasn’t the first musician to use Auto-Tune as an instrument — he noticed it on a Jennifer Lopez remix, and remembers “Deep” well — but it was, as he says, his style. For a while, in the mid-2000s, he lived at the top of the charts. He dominated that brief moment of our lives when ringtones were a thing. He was celebrated as an innovator, and he happily took his talents where he was invited, which was everywhere.

But somewhere along the way, somebody got it twisted. “People felt like I was using it to sound good,” says T-Pain, in an interview that will air on All Things Considered. “But I was just using it to sound different.”

He just turned 30, but T-Pain has already done enough to drop a greatest hits album next week. We asked him if he’d grace the Tiny Desk without any embellishment or effects to show what’s really made his career: his voice, and those songs.–FRANNIE KELLEY

T-Pain Sings Live without Auto-Tune [Video]