T-Pain Plots A 'Tiny Desk'-Inspired Acoustic Tour For This Fall
Six cities. No Auto-Tune. All the hits.
by Rodney Carmichael
Aug 22, 2017
2 minutes
For nearly a decade T-Pain reigned, the ubiquitous King of Auto-Tune.
A top-hat wearing ringmaster of tongue-in-cheek club anthems that celebrated his weakness for strippers and lady bartenders, the Tallahassee chart-topper personified the life of the party â until his vocal tricks became the punchline.
Copycats rode his wave into the ground, then clowned the man synonymous with the sound. So. The resulting performance became the most-popular in the history of NPR Music.
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