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T-Pain Plots A 'Tiny Desk'-Inspired Acoustic Tour For This Fall

Six cities. No Auto-Tune. All the hits.
T-Pain is taking his voice, free of Auto-Tune effects, on the road.

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 — 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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