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    How Tpain Killed His Career With Auto-tune

    Today on celebrities whose careers crashed is T-pain.
    T-pain was a big artist in the late 2000’s.
    We knew him for his auto-tune vocals on bangers like Bartender, Buy U A Drank, Can’t believe it, Low, and many other records.
    Even though his songs were very pleasing to listen to, because Bartender is still my jam till tomorrow, using pitch-enhancement technology to modify your voice seemed kinda fraudulent.
    But who cared when those catchy T-pain records were topping the charts?
    Upon his studio-created robotic voice he made loads of money and has 2 Grammy awards amongst other achievements.

    However, his sins eventually caught up with him. I’ll get to that part soon.

    It didn’t take long after Akon discovered him in 2004 and signed him to his label Konvict Muzik, that T-pain became a household name.
    If you remember this song which nobody dared to sing in public “I’m N Luv (Wit A Stripper)”, it came from his first album under Akon’s Konvict Muzik label.

    His next album ‘Epiphany’ was a commercial success. It was what finally made T-pain a huge star.
    Everybody was feeling these songs “Buy You A Drank” and “Bartender” from the album.

    Konvict music was the real shit during that era.
    As his labelmate Akon was taking over the international music scene, so was T-pain who was on every big name music project, from Kanye West’s song ‘Good life’ to Chris Brown’s ‘Kiss Kiss’ to R.Kelly to Jamie Foxx.

    His auto tune singing style was gaining wide acceptance, to the point that a popular phone app was developed in his name called ‘I am T-pain’. It enabled users to auto tune their voices to sing his songs as they played on the app.
    Imagine how much he was paid for that.
    All these happening a few years into his music journey.

    The first sign of trouble that rocked his successful career was when Jayz dropped the song ‘Death of Auto tune’ in 2009. A track condemning the abuse of auto tune. Clearly, T-pain was the biggest auto tune user and of course the prime suspect.
    And because Jay has a massive influence, his fans jumped on it, calling it a diss at T-pain and attacked him in every way possible.
    They’d go to his concert just to tell him how Jayz destroyed him. Lol.
    In retaliation, T-pain started dissing Jay in his shows too.
    It started a beef between the two artists, though it’s long been squashed after T-pain ended up apologising to the ogbologbo himself like everyone does for the sake of their career.
    However, Jay’s song created a gateway for critics to question T-pain’s authenticity.

    Then his music gradually started losing its appeal until nobody cared like they did around 2007-2010.
    Last year he even cancelled his tour, confessing on Instagram that it was due to low ticket sales.
    Same last year he opened up that he’s been very broke and struggled to feed his kids.
    This year I watched Akon state in an interview that why T-pain lost relevance was because he didn’t evolve as an artist; he remained the same old T-pain, when his mates were fast crossing over to pop and newer sounds of this generation.
    Akon was right because he at some point crossed over to white people’s type of music pop (Right Now Na Na Na and several others) which kept his career afloat for a long time.

    So yea, as Jayz prophesied in the diss track, T-pain’s fall from the top literally is the death of auto-tune. Because in truth, nobody has been as creative with the use of auto-tune since T-pain.

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