Club Shay Shay - T-Pain Part 2

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Shannon Sharpe sits down with T-Pain—one of the most influential rappers, era-defining hitmakers, visionary producers, streamers, and trendsetters who changed the course of music. Nearly two decades after “Rapper Turned Singer,” he reflects on his legacy while breaking down his new single, “Club Husband.” T-Pain opens with the lyrics, how the club scene has changed, and what it was like sneaking into clubs at 14, starting as a DJ, and becoming a regular despite his parents hating it. He talks about selling weed to friends, getting in trouble with police after school, and eventually dropping out and being expelled with only eight days of 8th grade left.

T-Pain explains why “stealing dudes’ girls” has always existed in clubs, sharing a wild story from London where he stole a girl, confronted a man named Tiny—three times bigger than Shannon—and ended up throwing money that led to a fight. He jokes that a man can even find a husband in the club as he and Shannon debate the best ways to meet women. T-Pain opens up about meeting his wife, proposing after three months, and still having the first video of them together.

He breaks down “Club Husband,” “Buy You a Drink,” and the etiquette of buying women drinks as he and Shannon go back and forth about helping people. T-Pain reveals how he had to pay Lil Scrappy and Lil Jon for “Buy You a Drink”, and why he hates that “Club Husband” blew up on TikTok, and how someone stole an unreleased version from his stream and tried to profit from it. They discuss Drea Michelle, Draylen Green, the new generation discovering T-Pain, and the 20th anniversary of the rapper-singer era.

T-Pain reflects on industry lessons—how “no one is your brother,” getting regifted client gifts, artists wanting him on features but not in videos. He explains why he sold his catalog, how HarbourView Equity Partners partnered with him, and how he reinvested: a 50-square building for his company, a plane, and simple black shirts for his wife. He admits mistakes from early fame, like buying a Bugatti and a chain before losing his house, investing in bad ideas, and being robbed by people around him—lessons that made him obsessive about his finances.

He shares memories of inventing pre-sagged pants with his grandfather. Explaining why he creates all his music on Twitch, and why he embraced Auto-Tune like Roger Troutman before proving he could really sing through covers. T-Pain reveals dream collaborations like André 3000, why he’d never do the Super Bowl halftime show, and how he learned to stop craving recognition for songs he wrote. He talks about still doing T-Mixes, almost canceling The Masked Singer three days before filming, and performing blind every night because he couldn’t see in the costume.

In the end, T-Pain says his proudest accomplishment isn’t awards or hits—it’s that his wife loves him, and his kids don’t hate him. Everything he does includes them, and that’s what matters most.

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Speaker 31 thank you for coming back part two is underway

Speaker 31 how about this is it true you didn't make any money from buy you a drink

Speaker 31 I made some money from buying a drink. Buy your drink.
You made some money, but not the money you should have made or could have made?

Speaker 31 I made some money because i was paying homage okay and i thought that paying homage would have been cool which it was okay at first so when i did um

Speaker 31 i'm gonna buy you a drink then i'm gonna take you home with me i got money in the bank as soon as i said money in the bank that's when little scrappy came in and was like okay well he said a line from my song because he Lil Scrappy had the song at the time.

Speaker 31 I got money in the bank. Shawty, what you think? I got money in the bank.

Speaker 31 yeah uh and then shawty what you think about that i'll be in the great weekend so um at the beginning of the song when i said snap your fingers do your steps yeah that's what you can do it all

Speaker 31 then little john came in like well since this song is doing well i

Speaker 31 don't mind if i do you head ass so you know um no it was it was one of them things that was like i thought i was paying homage and then the people that could take advantage of it they take advantage of it so but but the thing was they took advantage of the publishing and the the master of it um

Speaker 31 so while they were making eight cents every three months i was making a hundred grand a night off of performing it like i'm like okay

Speaker 31 whatever you want be greedy but you're not gonna get what i'm doing so do your thing i mean still love to all the to all of them And I don't think it was them either.

Speaker 31 I don't think it was Lil Scrappy doing it. And I don't think it was Lil John doing it.
Obviously, it was their publishing company that were coming for this stuff.

Speaker 31 And Lil John probably still don't know that we went through that whole other thing. So,

Speaker 31 you know,

Speaker 31 it was a moment in life that I was like, oh,

Speaker 31 this is how I ain't my brothers. Like,

Speaker 31 everybody that didn't call me their brothers and everybody that been saying all this, maybe it's not. But I understand now as a grown-up.
That maybe it wasn't them.

Speaker 31 And, you know, nobody's ever said anything to me.

Speaker 31 i've seen scrappy numerous times i've seen little john a thousand times and nobody's like ever brought it up like was that a very hard lesson for you to learn uh not no not oh it was a it was only a lesson for me to learn to where i was like oh they're not taking

Speaker 31 all the money from this record. They're taking the publishing and the masters from it, but I'm always going to make money from doing that record.

Speaker 31 You know, and there's nothing that anybody can do to stop me from making the auxiliary money from that record. So it's not going to be a,

Speaker 31 it's not going to be a

Speaker 31 publishing or a master thing.

Speaker 31 When I perform that song, you can't take any of that.

Speaker 31 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 31 And you don't know how, you know, not only do you not know how much I'm charging for that song, but I mean, if you knew how much I was, how much I was getting off of that song 20 years after you tried to take the money from it.

Speaker 31 You

Speaker 31 shit out of your dick.

Speaker 31 Club husband, it blew up on TikTok.

Speaker 31 But it's three years, it's been so long. It's been a while you released it.
It was two, three, two, three years.

Speaker 31 I mean, were you surprised? Like, damn, hold on, I released this song two, three years ago, and now it's blowing up. I hated it.
You hate it. I hate it.
I hate it. That was the worst.

Speaker 31 Oh, my God.

Speaker 31 Can you imagine, bro? Can you imagine,

Speaker 31 like,

Speaker 31 trying to put it in terms that you can understand.

Speaker 31 Can you imagine a chick so hard? Damn.

Speaker 31 Give it your bit of sports terms.

Speaker 31 What about if I...

Speaker 31 I'm not sports enough to know this.

Speaker 31 I know.

Speaker 31 Imagine a chick so hard and you put all your,

Speaker 31 you put all your hip into it. All both replacements.
put

Speaker 31 you, you, you put it, you, you put everything into it. Yeah.
And she was just like, all right, good stuff.

Speaker 31 See you, see, see you next time. And then she don't call you back.
Oh, she goes, you? And then two years later, you hear from somebody else that, hey, remember that chick you like three years ago?

Speaker 31 Well, she said that was the best time she ever had.

Speaker 31 It's one of those. Oh.
It's one of those. Yeah, yeah, that'll hurt.
That'll hurt.

Speaker 31 Why didn't you say it? Yes. Why didn't you say it?

Speaker 31 should have said that then you know how much power i put into that and into into making sure you had a good time you didn't say nothing and now you want to you want to have the good time hey by the way she says she want to she want to get back up with you and do it do it all again no no i don't know no i'm moved on i'm okay you know i'm moved on so you know i'll just be so is that a new way is that a new way because i see a lot of times songs are becoming popular on tick tock before they become popular mainstream is that is that kind of how this thing going pain i hope hope not, man.

Speaker 31 I hope not, bro. It takes so much time to make these songs and do all this stuff and actually put time and work into this shit.
And then if somebody just posts it on TikTok, it gets more famous.

Speaker 31 Then, because keep in mind, the reason that it got famous on TikTok was because I was making it on my stream. Right.

Speaker 31 But I was playing. the a cappella in order to make a dubstep version of it because I gave up on trying to release the regular version.

Speaker 31 You know what I'm saying? So when I gave up on making the regular version a thing, that's when it popped. And it wasn't like a,

Speaker 31 it was, it wasn't like a

Speaker 31 extended version or anything like that. And then the, and then, and then, oh my God,

Speaker 31 then

Speaker 31 the person that leaked it came on my stream weeks later and was like, hey,

Speaker 31 you need to put me on your team because apparently I'm really good at reviving your career and I can make you money that man said that on your screen this nigga said hey I stole your shit and made money off of it so you need to give me money now

Speaker 31 what

Speaker 31 so now hey I'm really good at knowing when you need to be good at stuff

Speaker 31 so I just steal the content that you're doing and I'll put that content out and that's gonna make me money so you need to give me money for doing that. Wow.
What the?

Speaker 31 Can you imagine pumping all that sauce into a

Speaker 31 and then she don't say nothing? Can we get sports? You don't know anything about sports?

Speaker 31 I know a little bit.

Speaker 31 I'd rather do this. I'd rather do the

Speaker 31 analogy.

Speaker 31 Lord, have mercy.

Speaker 31 How does it feel to you? Because there's this young chopping skewer. Drea Michelle did a I think she did a

Speaker 31 film. Feel a bunch.
Yeah, because Jalen Green thought it was a new song.

Speaker 31 Right, yeah.

Speaker 31 But obviously, when you make that song, he probably was a couple of months old.

Speaker 31 So

Speaker 31 you must understand. But now you got a new generation that's discovering.
Right, exactly. Now imagine.
Yes.

Speaker 31 Pumping all that sauce into a beach.

Speaker 31 Lord have mercy.

Speaker 31 I did catch a bunch of touchdowns.

Speaker 31 I caught a bunch of touchdowns. You saw

Speaker 31 that's caught up. I scored a bunch of points of high school basketball.

Speaker 31 Nope, it was just the one video.

Speaker 31 Nope, you did nothing else the whole beginning of your life. Damn.
It was just the one video. That's it.

Speaker 31 That's it.

Speaker 31 Now imagine all that shit you did,

Speaker 31 all them passes, all that shit. But it's just like, oh, Shannon from the video? Yeah.
Yeah. That's how you know, unfortunately, some people.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 31 You see what I'm saying? Are you talking about Shannon with the pants? Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I know. I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 31 Nope,

Speaker 31 not the whole career. Nope.
Just the pants.

Speaker 31 You know it's the 20 year, the 20th, the 20th anniversary. Yeah.
Rapper turned Sangla. Oh, my God.
What have you learned about this business in 20 years?

Speaker 31 Nobody

Speaker 31 is your brother. Nobody.
Come on, Payne. Don't do that.
Nobody. Payne, come out here.

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Speaker 30 Hi, I'm Michelle Brunstein, an award-winning chef, restaurateur, and mom.

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Speaker 31 All the time. That's my brother.
I hear it

Speaker 31 seen

Speaker 31 So many dicks in that locker room. None of them is your brother

Speaker 31 Come on

Speaker 31 nobody is your brother. Everybody's your brother while they can use you.

Speaker 31 Everybody.

Speaker 31 Everybody is your brother while they can use you. Nobody is your brother.
That is the quickest and the most

Speaker 31 consistent thing that I've learned through this whole thing. You had to learn that the hard way?

Speaker 31 Everybody that, everybody, and you know what? It's only that say

Speaker 31 you my brother.

Speaker 31 That I'm telling.

Speaker 31 just like that, yeah. Because you wouldn't allow, you wouldn't allow somebody that didn't say that to get close to you, yeah.
You would, yeah, you would so, yeah, you would.

Speaker 31 I'd rather you tell me what the business was and not have the brother aspect in there and just say, Hey, look, here's what I want to do: here's what we're gonna do: we're gonna do a hook, we're gonna, I'm gonna put a verse on this shit, we're gonna make a bunch of money, I'm gonna we're gonna separate for a little bit and I'm gonna come back.

Speaker 31 When I need you again, let's do it again.

Speaker 31 I'd rather know the plan than to say, You, my brother, you my brother, you my brother. No, but brother, we always gonna be together.
We ain't gonna never, we ain't gonna never separate.

Speaker 31 Anytime you need me, I'm here for you. Anytime you need me, boom, boom, boom.
But, but nah, bro, it's that brother shit. Nobody is your

Speaker 31 brother. I've had DJ Khaled,

Speaker 31 everybody done told me, I'm your brother.

Speaker 31 Do not believe that shit. Lord, have a mercy.

Speaker 31 That is the that is the

Speaker 31 you know you're gonna get me in trouble, man. You're gonna get us in trouble.

Speaker 31 I'm gonna get us in trouble. All that, but I mean, but but no, I mean, when I say when I say, when I say shit like DJ Khaled, it's very apparent.
Yeah, like DJ Khaled knows how to move.

Speaker 31 He knows how to, you know, do things with different people and shit like that. But it's like,

Speaker 31 it's not, it's not, it's not. a DJ Khaled type of thing.

Speaker 31 That's just the first person I can think of, but we're talking about so many people because you got to think of how many people I've helped throughout their career.

Speaker 31 Everybody is like, oh my god, thank you so much. You're my brother.
And it's just so much of that back to back, back to back, back to back. You're my brother.
You're my brother. You're my brother.

Speaker 31 You're my brother. And then none of that shit was reciprocated.
None of that shit came back. None of that shit meant anything.
When people start,

Speaker 31 when

Speaker 31 tell you

Speaker 31 how much you mean to them,

Speaker 31 don't grab on to that.

Speaker 31 When people

Speaker 31 tell you how much they can mean to you in return,

Speaker 31 that's the shit you gravitate towards. Damn.

Speaker 31 When

Speaker 31 there's people on your team,

Speaker 31 and sometimes, like, I like, I love telling people that they're about to get a raise. Okay, you know what I mean? So, I love, I love going to my team and like, hey, I'm about to get your raise.

Speaker 31 And when somebody says, thank you, man,

Speaker 31 I appreciate it. Yeah.
It's like, okay, this is probably going to be your last raise.

Speaker 31 But when I go to somebody and I say, yo, you're about to get a raise, and they say,

Speaker 31 can I, is there something I,

Speaker 31 can I do more work? Like, can I, yeah, is there, can you, like, also raise like my responsibilities or something? Them, the people you keep around. Right.
You feel what I'm saying? Yes.

Speaker 31 Them, the people you keep around.

Speaker 31 You know, and, and, and when you, when you do something so astronomical as to build in somebody's career and they just say, yo, you, my brother, bro, bop, gang, never gonna see you again.

Speaker 31 And then it's like, when you do something astronomical, like, bro, you built my career up. There has to be something I can do for you.
Right.

Speaker 31 That's the people you keep around with you. Have you heard the story about the lady and the python? This lady had a 10-foot python, and the python stopped eating.

Speaker 31 Month goes by. Two months goes by.
He wouldn't sleep in his pen. It wouldn't sleep in his pen.
It only wanted to sleep next to her.

Speaker 31 Two months, but it wouldn't eat. She takes it to the vet.

Speaker 31 She said, I don't know what's wrong. I don't know what's wrong with the snake.
It won't eat anymore. She said, wait a minute.

Speaker 31 How long has it not eaten? Like

Speaker 31 two, three months.

Speaker 31 He said, does it want to just sleep next to you? Yeah. He said, there's nothing wrong with this snake.
He said, that snake is sizing you up. It's going to eat you.
It's going to eat you.

Speaker 31 It's just getting close to you.

Speaker 31 Let your guard down. I wonder where that was going.
It's going to eat you. You see what happened? Absolutely.
And there are. Let your guard down.

Speaker 31 This is my brother patting you in the back all the while. All the time.
And I just want, you know,

Speaker 31 there have been times where I've not been like a great friend to people and shit like that. But I didn't, like, I had no idea.

Speaker 31 I thought I was doing everything that all the artists were supposed to be doing like that. You know,

Speaker 31 you know, when I'm getting gifts from and then come to find out it's just like all the shit they got from the from the Grammy gift room and shit. Like

Speaker 31 you just go through the line. It's just like, oh, you got a watch? Yeah.
Hey, nigga, I got you a watch.

Speaker 31 You did buy. somebody gifted you that.
Somebody re-gifted. Exactly.
So, damn. You know, it's a little shit like that, man.
And it's, you know, again, it's depending on your life.

Speaker 31 Well, how do you move though?

Speaker 31 How do you move? Someone says you're your brother, and you see, you come to find out that they're moving funny, they moving sideways.

Speaker 31 How do you remove yourself without making it so obvious that you remove yourself? You make it obvious. You make it obvious.
You make it very, very, very, very

Speaker 31 obvious. You make it very obvious because it's like.

Speaker 31 So you wanted to know that you don't F with them no more.

Speaker 31 Yeah, you have to, and that's the only way you're gonna remove it because if you lead them on, they're gonna keep calling you like, hey, you available this week? No,

Speaker 31 no, I'm not. I'm available.
No, the fuck, I am not available this week.

Speaker 31 Wait, did you think, you think it was gonna start working again?

Speaker 31 I mean, you my brother. No, we're not.
No, no, I am not. No.
No. So it's like, you know, things like that.

Speaker 31 You have to. I've learned as I've grown up and as I've

Speaker 31 come to

Speaker 31 you know because as like when you started hitting in your 40s you start losing a lot of friends and it's not because of

Speaker 31 You becoming you know

Speaker 31 antisocial or anything like that. It's because it's like

Speaker 31 oh Can we agree that we've never really been friends?

Speaker 31 We can be grown up about this that we've never really been friends at all.

Speaker 31 Other than being artists, we really have nothing in common. That's it.
And it's just like, now that we, bro, we're both in our fortune. We have nothing to

Speaker 31 like.

Speaker 31 You at the age now, Payne, you get to choose your friend. It's not like we had to be at elementary school, junior, high, high school.

Speaker 31 We can both agree that we have nothing in common. And none of us

Speaker 31 has an advantage from us saying that we're friends at all. We don't, there's no like

Speaker 31 there's no me featuring you that's going to rock the airwaves. Like, we're good.
We can just stop saying that we cool, right? Oh, yeah,

Speaker 31 yeah, let's see, okay, let's stop doing it. Damn, you know, like, uh, man, there was so many, there were so many people, there were people

Speaker 31 when I was doing, like, when I was like heavy in features, yeah, oh, you, you, the feature king, you, you, the feature king, I was the feature king.

Speaker 31 When people started me doing features, um, there were bigger artists that were like, I don't want to be like in the video with him.

Speaker 31 Like, I know he's like, you need him as a feature, but can we not have him in the video with me at the same time? What?

Speaker 31 Like, there were so many, bro. So, so hold on.
So, let me know. That happened so many times.
You don't, you want me on the feature, but you don't want me in the video.

Speaker 31 Just in case

Speaker 31 the thing that I was doing was a gimmick and they can separate themselves from me later on.

Speaker 31 Which was, which intern was smart?

Speaker 31 Which intern was smart? But it didn't work out their way. Now they try to circle back.
I mean, now I'm here with you. Yeah.

Speaker 31 They are not.

Speaker 31 So

Speaker 31 it turned into a safety net that ended up being a mosquito net. You know what I'm saying? It kept them from sucking my blood.
You know what I'm saying? And I saw from the beginning that

Speaker 31 nobody needed to be around me, anyways. And I'm totally fine with that.
And the thing is that most of these make their identities

Speaker 31 kind of reliant on being around a bunch of music.

Speaker 31 I make my identity on it's just me and my wife. Yeah.

Speaker 31 And here you go. I don't know.

Speaker 31 After she, after she sees this, I don't know.

Speaker 31 She might see.

Speaker 31 She might 22 years. I know y'all been together for 22 years.
Again, she hollered at me first.

Speaker 31 She said you were the, hey, she said you was the one.

Speaker 31 She bought into it.

Speaker 31 Peyton, let me ask you, what made you sell your catalog? What made me sell my catalog?

Speaker 31 The amount of money that they gave me for my catalog. It literally would have took me 100 years to make that money.

Speaker 31 I calculated it and I was like, why would I sell y'all this? Why would I say?

Speaker 31 And they were like, look, here's how much you're making per year off of this. We're going to give you a hundred years' worth of money right here all at once.

Speaker 31 Okay, why would you, yeah, yeah, I didn't think that was a hard time. Did you, did you, did you, did you discuss it with wife and you're like, hey, check this out.

Speaker 31 This company came to me, this venture capitalist or this board of courting, whatever.

Speaker 31 I'll discuss it with my wife. She said, five, why you asking me that question? You know, damn well, you're supposed to have to say yes on the spot.

Speaker 31 I said, hey, babe.

Speaker 31 Okay, you come in and say, hey, babe, check this out.

Speaker 31 I got a deal. I don't know.
I might refuse it. I might not.

Speaker 31 Talked to the kids today. Kids going to school.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 She said, yeah.

Speaker 31 I was like, did you, you know,

Speaker 31 everybody good? Yeah, look, I got to talk to you about something that's real important about our future. Okay.

Speaker 31 And then she's like, okay, cool. You know, cool shit.
I was like, can I close the door? Because I don't want, you know, I don't want the rest of the house to hate and shit like that.

Speaker 31 She was like, Yeah,

Speaker 31 you know, just like, what the is going on? Like, just

Speaker 31 tell me.

Speaker 31 So, I close the door. Cuckoo.

Speaker 31 We're rich.

Speaker 31 We're rich.

Speaker 31 We're rich.

Speaker 31 We're going to have hundreds of money through the rest of our lives.

Speaker 31 We got $100 million.

Speaker 31 You know who Elon Musk is? That nigga.

Speaker 31 Oh, my God. Baby, baby.
Mark Zuckerberg just invited us to his boat. We rich.
We damn.

Speaker 31 Wait, so

Speaker 31 hold up.

Speaker 31 You said, baby, we rich beyond rich. I mean, whatever you thought about when we got together, my career was taking off.
Whatever you thought I was going to be. Here's the thing.

Speaker 31 Here's what made us beyond it. Here's what the re we rich beyond rich.
So

Speaker 31 Harborview,

Speaker 31 the people I sold my catalog to, they didn't just say, we want your catalog. They said

Speaker 31 we'll buy your catalog.

Speaker 31 But also,

Speaker 31 if you make another hit, we want that too.

Speaker 31 If you make more songs, we want them too. If you make a hit TV series, we want that too.
Damn. If you make a football league that just nobody even thought of, we want that too.

Speaker 31 We are scoring movies. If you score a movie, we want that too.
So it's not just at

Speaker 31 least what they got. So it's not at just what they got.
So I can, I sold them what I sold them. But also if I, if I'd say,

Speaker 31 this one's doing pretty good too. They like, we want that too.
Here's another

Speaker 31 damn. You know what I'm saying? So it's a partnership now.
Yeah. It's not, and

Speaker 31 that's the thing that Harvey View does. Like,

Speaker 31 when they go in, when they go in with somebody, they don't go in like, give us your shit. You're our Michael Jackson.
It's like,

Speaker 31 we, look, we want to go into a partnership with you. So, if you decide, if I decide that club husband is doing good enough, how much y'all give me for the club husband?

Speaker 31 Now, you can put it anywhere you want to. Now, you can put it on movies and you can make the rest of the money off of it.
But the money it would have taken me 100 years to make off a club husband,

Speaker 31 boom, even if it's 20x.

Speaker 31 That's 20, that's 20 years.

Speaker 31 The money it would take me to,

Speaker 31 the time it would take me to make 20 years worth of money off a club husband, I can get a 20x from them. The time it would take me to just sell a beat or dubstep,

Speaker 31 if I make an intro to your show,

Speaker 31 and they say,

Speaker 31 we want the rights to that.

Speaker 31 Take it.

Speaker 31 How much money is Shannon Sharp's show going to make for the next 20 years?

Speaker 31 How much stake do I have in that from the intro? Boom. Give me that money.

Speaker 31 it's it's it was in other words, it was a no-brainer.

Speaker 31 What was the first? Okay, you got this money, you wealthy beyond you, even when you dreamed at night.

Speaker 31 And my brother used to tell us all, tell me all the time, he says, A dream is a gift you give to yourself. So, you dreaming at night, right?

Speaker 31 What's the first thing you bought? What do you got this money? You let baby, what you want, baby, whatever you want, Denny's house.

Speaker 31 It's not, it's not, it's not. No, no, no.
So, about um, I bought a 50,000 square foot building for all my businesses. Okay, okay.
So, I'll say

Speaker 31 you a 50,000 square foot. I thought you were about to say a house.
I said, you house. No,

Speaker 31 no, no, no.

Speaker 31 50,000 square foot building for all my businesses. Okay.

Speaker 31 I bought a plane.

Speaker 31 A plane? Yeah, and a plane.

Speaker 31 Oh, big baller.

Speaker 31 What the f?

Speaker 31 What in God's name would you do with that money?

Speaker 31 Get two lawnmowers?

Speaker 31 I probably would buy Timeshares in a plane. I don't know if I would want

Speaker 31 abruptly buy two lawnmowers and a Ferrari.

Speaker 31 So, so what did

Speaker 31 what did she, you, okay. Just what you bought, you bought a building, you bought a plane.
What did she want for herself?

Speaker 31 Uh, some black shirts.

Speaker 31 She wanted

Speaker 31 this. My wife is the best, bro.
Like, I she don't want anything.

Speaker 31 I'd be trying. I'd literally try to buy her shit.

Speaker 31 And she seems so down to earth.

Speaker 31 You know, I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know if she's down to earth or she.

Speaker 31 You don't know she's down there. You built with her for damn 25 years.
You, do you see the nigga she picked? Like this? Yes, yes. Yeah, that wasn't a smart choice.

Speaker 31 Good job. You know what I'm saying? I'd be trying to buy her shit all the time.
I don't bought her trucks. And she's like, a truck? Trucks.
Like, trucks.

Speaker 31 And she's like, all right, that's cool.

Speaker 31 It's just like, I'm just going to ride with you everywhere you go. I'm not going to drive them.
You're like, okay, thank you.

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Speaker 31 but so truck. Thank you

Speaker 31 You started off DJing at the age of 14 probably making what $5,500 a night DJing 200

Speaker 31 money y'all was getting paid

Speaker 31 Oh you do it for free? Yeah, I was carrying crates. Okay.
At 14 15 I was carrying crates because keep in mind I couldn't go into clubs unless I had a job. Right.
So I was carrying crates

Speaker 31 for DJs and

Speaker 31 I was hearing

Speaker 31 the reason that I can make the songs the way that I make is because I was hearing the songs that DJs were playing from the crates that I was carrying. Right.

Speaker 31 And I was like, man, people really like these parts of songs. What the f ⁇ is making people go so crazy? Okay.

Speaker 31 So every night I would literally write down like, all right, the hi-hat's gone from this song. Yeah.
All right. They like this part.
Okay. There's no kick on this part.
All right.

Speaker 31 Well, he just said something real loud on this part. I don't know what the he's like.
Like, and so I like

Speaker 31 started studying why people like parts of songs that they like. And then I went back in my crib and I was like, I think I'm going to try to make a song.
Damn.

Speaker 31 And I'm going to incorporate all these things that people have seemingly been liking from these things that I've been seeing. So it's kind of just like,

Speaker 31 yeah,

Speaker 31 it's making a song from a DJ's perspective is. Because you know what hits.
You know what's in the, like you said, you already know. I know it hit.
I know it hits.

Speaker 31 I know what, what, like, you know, an 808 hits on this part, and people love that shit. There's no 808 on this part.
And people scream this shit at the top of their lungs.

Speaker 31 There's no eight. There's no hi-hat on this part.
There's no snare on this part. Boom, boom, boom.
So I started incorporating those things into my songs.

Speaker 31 And it's like, I think I know how to make a song. Yeah.

Speaker 31 I tried one and boom. Yeah, it just happened.

Speaker 31 Because early in your career, you bought a Bugatti, 1.7 million.

Speaker 31 You bought a chain, 400,000, said big-ass chain. Now you got little ass chain.

Speaker 31 Now you say, hey,

Speaker 31 Frank Richard Mill

Speaker 31 from Timu. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 31 Let me tell you something.

Speaker 31 When I bought that Bugatti, that was the last bit of my money, and I had no idea.

Speaker 31 I had no idea. You didn't know that was the last bit of your money or you had no idea that...
I had no idea that was the last bit of my money. When I bought that Bugatti, I demanded that my

Speaker 31 accountants

Speaker 31 send the money for that Bugatti.

Speaker 31 And when I got it, they were like, hey, so we may have to sell your house. I'm like,

Speaker 31 what are you talking about I have a Bugatti

Speaker 31 they were like yeah that was what we were gonna use to pay for the rest of your house I'm like my house is paid for and like

Speaker 31 yeah not anymore so we had to take out something for your thing and then we bought the Bugatti so then the Bugatti disappeared and shit like that but it was never like

Speaker 31 I was never secure because I never knew what the hell was going on with my finances. I mean, now I'm very, very, very, very close to my finances.

Speaker 31 And I know every dollar that goes out, like, I'm telling you, if somebody tries to send $4 from one of my accounts, I get an alert on my phone. You know what I mean?

Speaker 31 Like, I stay very close to my finances and shit like that. But back then,

Speaker 31 I had no idea what was happening. I had no idea.
I had so much money that it was just like,

Speaker 31 why would I care? Wow. I don't care who steals from me.
I should still have enough. You know what I mean? But that's what was happening.
People were actually stealing.

Speaker 31 Oh, yeah, they were actually stealing. They were actually stealing.
But also, I was investing in weird stuff.

Speaker 31 My granddad said he had a,

Speaker 31 and it sounds stupid. Now,

Speaker 31 my granddad said he had an idea.

Speaker 31 We're going to sell.

Speaker 31 With hell, you sell it. You know how

Speaker 31 sag their draws all the time. Yeah.

Speaker 31 We're going to sell pants

Speaker 31 with the draws already sagged.

Speaker 31 We're going to sell pants with the draws hanging out of them already. And then the waistband of the draws is the actual waistband of the pants.

Speaker 31 Absolutely.

Speaker 31 How much money do you need?

Speaker 31 That shit sounds amazing. You know what? Spent $150,000 on that.
I didn't have it, but I gave it to him. Guess what?

Speaker 31 You can pull it up right now. Balenciaga is literally selling

Speaker 31 pants withdrawals.

Speaker 31 Hanging out the

Speaker 31 you. We got we.
Copyright. Dude, you got a paper.

Speaker 31 Hell no, man. He never did it.
He never made them.

Speaker 31 He never did it. Damn, but I was supposed to...

Speaker 31 I was supposed to just know that that was going to happen. But right now, I swear to God, Balenciaga is selling pants with draws

Speaker 31 as

Speaker 31 research department we go we're having yeah yeah you pull it up that's what they

Speaker 31 now now you're on twitch oh boy so hey bro are are you more active on twitch than making music i mean oh so so how does twitch i'm making music on twitch I'm making all my music on Twitch.

Speaker 31 So people can see it in real time. In real time.
I'm literally everything that I do now, every single that I release, everything that happens right now. I can, you can

Speaker 31 clock it from me making the first sound to putting it out. Like all the way from me making the first sound of the beat,

Speaker 31 making the whole beat, recording the vocals, and then putting it out. I can show you the entire process on Twitch.
And it's been not only

Speaker 31 a liberating thing for me, but it's turned into an eye-opener

Speaker 31 to the viewers for other artists because they like, y'all ain't doing this. Y'all ain't doing the process.
Like, pain. You know what I'm saying? So

Speaker 31 it's not a flex, but it's like

Speaker 31 if your favorite artist ain't doing the whole process, then

Speaker 31 y'all watching this for. Right.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So

Speaker 31 it's turned into a,

Speaker 31 I'll look you can see you can literally watch this song develop from the first sound of the beat to the release of the song and that that can't

Speaker 31 there's no other place

Speaker 31 that you can watch that happen within a week span you know what I'm saying so within seven days you can see this thing happen I will stream every part of me making this and i have i have like a

Speaker 31 a two-step process like i got a drunk tea pain and sober tea pain so drunk tea painter come in and start the beat make the song and like that and then sober tea painter come in the next day and like what this do last night

Speaker 31 because i don't remember none of that and then i fix it and then i finish it to where the song can come out right so it's like

Speaker 31 you get these different aspects of how my

Speaker 31 how my process works and there's there's like come come to my house and like i don't want people to see me recording my verse right and it's like you don't even want like damn bro we're just we're just writing verses and just recording they like nah I don't want I'm showing you start to you should you showing everything I just I have to because I don't have

Speaker 31 the and a big part of it is I don't have a hidden aspect right to my process okay because a lot of that come up come to the crib they like they got these other writers or they got these other producers and they got people they got secret that come in on the side and do all this extra i'm like bro it's been it's literally me in the studio what they see on twitch is what it actually happens exactly what it is it's me in the studio by myself the whole time doing this and you know sometimes my wife will come in she'll write the with me but you know my kids would come in they'll write with me but it's like it ain't no secret It ain't no extra writers coming in.

Speaker 31 It ain't no extra coming off the street and shit like that. Like, it ain't never going to be that.
You know what I'm saying? So, I mean, that's that's that's my favorite part of the shit.

Speaker 31 My, the, the fun part

Speaker 31 is

Speaker 31 getting drunk as shit one night,

Speaker 31 coming in the next morning, and still streaming. Like, let me see what this did, and it's but the

Speaker 31 me. So,

Speaker 31 so, like, let me see what he did, and I hear it. I'm like, oh, shit, that nigga had a little idea last night.
Let me see what's going on.

Speaker 31 And then I, and then I finish that idea, and then the song actually comes out.

Speaker 31 But you can see that it's me the entire time.

Speaker 31 So

Speaker 31 it's not only liberating, man. It actually shows people that not everything is fake.
You know,

Speaker 31 I don't know how you felt, but ever since like Milli Vanelli, everybody's been like, everything's fake. Especially not with AI.
Everything's fake. Especially now with AI.
Everything's fake.

Speaker 31 Everything's AI. Everything's fake.
This nigga ain't do that. I don't believe it.
Even if I see you do it, I don't believe it.

Speaker 31 This is not a real thing. You know what I'm saying? So a couple years ago, pain.

Speaker 2 This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something.

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Speaker 9 They may be happening to you without you knowing.

Speaker 15 If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability, and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA.

Speaker 25 OSA is a serious condition where your airway partially or completely collapses during sleep, which may cause breathing interruptions and oxygen deprivation.

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Speaker 30 Mike check one, two,

Speaker 32 are we recording?

Speaker 30 Hi, I'm Michelle Brinstein, an award-winning chef, restaurateur, and mom.

Speaker 34 I have a lot on my plate, including my psoriatic arthritis symptoms.

Speaker 35 That's why I was prescribed Cosentix.

Speaker 36 It helps me move better.

Speaker 39 Cosentix Seccukenumab is prescribed for people two years of age and older with active psoriatic arthritis.

Speaker 40 Don't use if you're allergic to Cosentix. Before starting, get checked for tuberculosis.

Speaker 43 An increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur, like tuberculosis or other serious bacterial, fungal, or viral infections.

Speaker 45 Some were fatal.

Speaker 44 Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms like fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches, or cough.

Speaker 49 Add a vaccine or plan to, or if inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, serious allergic reactions and severe eczema-like skin reactions may occur.

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Speaker 31 I had you on Nightcap and I asked you, I said,

Speaker 31 I say, Payne, with your voice,

Speaker 31 you can really, really eff and sing. I don't know if there's a rapper, dead or alive,

Speaker 31 that can match vocals with you. I say, why you use auto-tunes?

Speaker 31 It literally just set me apart. It was just something that set me apart.
Do you know?

Speaker 31 There's not a lot of people in this world that have heard Roger Troutman's actual singing voice. He's the first one.
And that's a fucker can sing. That boy can sing his ass off.

Speaker 31 But

Speaker 31 he did that to set himself apart because if you're just gonna sing, you're just gonna be another singer. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Like why why put yourself in that category when you have the opportunity to set yourself apart from everybody and

Speaker 31 you know it comes with this it comes with its uh stipulations and it comes with its uh won't you do a pivot won't you do okay i did no yeah no i'm talking about now really right now like beyonce beyonce had her genre she said you know what country what i'm gonna do and put an album out okay you rap not do it r b well let's keep in mind that country has always been a part of beyonce's repertoire okay you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 31 Like, Beyonce's always been able to do country. You know,

Speaker 31 all her harmonies and all the things that Destiny Child did, things like that. That's always been country music.
Okay. That's always been blues.

Speaker 31 And country music came from blues and blues came from country. And, you know, everybody can

Speaker 31 have their allegations about that. But this has always been a thing.
It's about tempo. It's about rhythmic vocals and things like that that made it quote-unquote country, but it's always been that.

Speaker 31 And that's something that we are always able to do.

Speaker 31 Rhythm and blues. Yes.
That's what RB is. Yes.

Speaker 31 Blues. Yes.

Speaker 31 Blues is country. Yes.
Country is blues. Like we've always been in this space.

Speaker 31 My mama done told me.

Speaker 31 We call that blues, but that's where country came from.

Speaker 31 So we can do that. That's always been ours.
You know what I'm saying? So we just kind of went back to our roots on that. And Beyonce,

Speaker 31 Beyonce was always the queen of that. So it's never going to be a thing to where it's like a pivot for us.
It's just

Speaker 31 just kind of doing what we were already doing. You know what I mean? Like when I did on top of the covers, when I did my cover album,

Speaker 31 and I was singing, singing, singing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you did people really know you could sing like that before they heard you do all the covers?

Speaker 31 Not at all. Not at all.
I don't think so.

Speaker 31 There was a core audience that

Speaker 31 had a suspicion, but I never really felt like I needed to prove anything. Yeah.
So

Speaker 31 when I went into that on top of the covers and

Speaker 31 when I did the sunrose in la

Speaker 31 it was kind of a it was i i didn't prove a point but it was just like a

Speaker 31 see

Speaker 31 it was like a no i can really sing it was like a right right like you know what i'm saying it was kind of like a that but it wasn't like uh

Speaker 31 i'm here to prove a point kind of thing it's just like let's get together for a night of good vibes and i'm gonna do the thing that we all know that we're gonna do And then we sold out three nights in two minutes.

Speaker 31 Wow. You know what I mean? So it was.
Is that something you're looking to do again?

Speaker 31 I do want to do a part two of it. I do want to do a part two of it.
I'm about to start taking a poll online of like what songs I should do because I don't want to pick them.

Speaker 31 You want the audience to pick them. Yeah, because the first version of it was songs that meant a lot to my heart.
Yeah. And now I want to know what people think that I should be kind of,

Speaker 31 you know, kind of taking a stab at.

Speaker 31 Who haven't you worked with that you would like to do something with? Andre 3000.

Speaker 31 Good luck with that one. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Literally, learn how to play a woodwind to work with this man. I swear to God.

Speaker 31 I bought a flute and

Speaker 31 I bought a saxophone from Timu.

Speaker 31 Almost got it. Almost got it.

Speaker 31 If hold, if, if, if, if, if Jay came to you and said, hey, bro, halftime show.

Speaker 31 Nah.

Speaker 31 that's too much pressure it's too much pressure that's a that's because you gotta think

Speaker 31 not it's a great honor yeah it would be an amazing honor but you gotta think about me trying to squeeze 20 years of absolute hit records in 15 in 15 minutes you can't do it i'm just not i'm just not i'm not gonna be the one that'd be

Speaker 31 remember when just when justin timberlick did it yeah and that whole 15 minutes you're like oh shit i forgot about that oh

Speaker 31 What? That was his? Oh, goddamn, Pharrell. God, shit.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I don't want that.

Speaker 31 I don't want the head snatch of, damn, I forgot he did all that shit. Just

Speaker 31 let me live that out.

Speaker 31 Also, I don't own that shit anymore. So just.
No.

Speaker 31 I sold it. So have it.
You know what I mean? You also, we're going to get you out of here a few more. Yeah.
You said that you stop,

Speaker 31 you write songs, but when you're writing songs for people that their fan base didn't know you were actually writing and was getting upset, you say, you know what, you go and give me the brief.

Speaker 31 Y'all gotta put me on there.

Speaker 31 Yeah,

Speaker 31 I had to learn how to stop wanting to be in front of the camera. Okay.
I had to learn how to get the hell behind the camera and just

Speaker 31 All right, yeah, you don't have to like me, but I did help your favorite artist. I did write this country song.
I did write this shit. But, you know, that was a time where

Speaker 31 people would

Speaker 31 look at those booklets. Yeah.
When you get an album,

Speaker 31 snatch that thing out the CD coverage. Who wrote? Yeah.
You look at those things and

Speaker 31 they don't have those anymore. So I had to learn to be like,

Speaker 31 I don't need that credit. I don't need you to know.

Speaker 31 It's obviously there, but I don't need everybody to have that knowledge. Right.

Speaker 31 My family's taken care of. My wife still loving.
My kids don't hate me.

Speaker 31 We good. I don't need anybody else to know exactly what I'm doing all the time.
And that's, you know, that's a thing that we all got to.

Speaker 31 Any more free boots? Any more free beats, hooks, features? All the time. You still do? All the time.

Speaker 31 All the time. Free beats, hooks, features.
I still do what we call T-Mixes. Okay.
T-Mix is always free because it has to be a song that I really, really, really, really like.

Speaker 31 And

Speaker 31 that's how you get a free T-Pain feature. You make a song that I really like, I'll do a verse to it and just put it out, and you can do whatever you want to with it.
It's not like a,

Speaker 31 you know, it's not like a premeditated thing. You don't know what's happening.
Things like that. I'm doing a folded remix.
Yeah.

Speaker 31 The folded T-Mixes.

Speaker 31 I mean, Kalani's already been, she's already asking me to do something on her album, but I'm like, I was already doing it. Right.

Speaker 31 You know, but she was like, oh, yeah, just do that then. Okay, cool.

Speaker 31 You know, she had another song ready for me, and I can still do that song, but I was like, hey,

Speaker 31 I'm about to do a folded. Just want to let you know,

Speaker 31 as soon as I get off this road, and as soon as I know exactly what I'm about to do for the next two weeks,

Speaker 31 I got you. I'm about to do that folded remix, but also I'm going to do the thing that you asked me to do.
The Mad Singer.

Speaker 31 How did they get you to do that? And

Speaker 31 how do you sing in that damn big ass costume? I got to tell you, man, I had tried to cancel the Mad Singer three days before I started it.

Speaker 31 Damn. Yeah.
No, it was bad. It was bad because

Speaker 31 when I actually got a hold, like a mental hold of what it was, I was like, oh, this is stupid as hell. I don't do this.

Speaker 31 And then I was like, yo, I'm good on this. I don't want to do this anymore.

Speaker 31 And they were like, well, what's wrong? And I was like, you telling me if they can figure out who's in the costume and they lose?

Speaker 31 I'm going to lose immediately. Everybody knows exactly what my voice sounds like.
I don't know what it sounds like, but apparently I'm a mix between Sea Lord and Robin Thick.

Speaker 31 I don't know how that works. But

Speaker 31 so

Speaker 31 I'm like, if anybody can hear my voice, then I lose. They're like, no.

Speaker 31 If they figure out who you are, but they can't prove it, then you can keep going. And I'm like, oh,

Speaker 31 I get it.

Speaker 31 Can I drink?

Speaker 31 And they were like, yes, you can drink. I was like, okay, I'm okay.
I can do it.

Speaker 31 And I don't know,

Speaker 31 you can probably pull it up now, but every night that I performed in that costume,

Speaker 31 I had to wear the pants. I was the only person that had pants, and then the rest of my costume would just engulf my body.

Speaker 31 Everybody else was an actual mask

Speaker 31 and just clothes.

Speaker 31 You know what I mean? So it was like, I was the only person I was wearing in an actual costume the entire time. So every night you can see the eye fog the f ⁇ up

Speaker 31 and I couldn't see shit. So every night I was performing blind and I couldn't see shit.

Speaker 31 That one last night that actually won me the whole thing.

Speaker 31 I had a microphone in my hand. I had a microphone in my actual hand outside of the costume and they wanted me to put the microphone up to the mouth of the thing.
And I'm like, I can't do that.

Speaker 31 I actually need, I need somehow to maybe I have a fake hand outside, and then I have a mic in here because I'm about to perform Stay With Me by Sam Smith. Right.
And they're like, we

Speaker 31 can't do that. That's going to look stupid as hell.
You're going to have

Speaker 31 just an arm out here with a microphone in it. And I'm like, okay, well, what's the best I can do? And like, we can put a microphone in your hand

Speaker 31 on a half a stand, put it up to your mouth, but we can also have a microphone right here on your face. The Madonna mic.

Speaker 31 Like, well, I breathe too much for that.

Speaker 31 And they're like, well, you got to control your breathing. And that's the only way we can do it.
And that is literally what won me the whole thing because I was like.

Speaker 31 I'll hold my breath in between

Speaker 31 these lines in order to get this right. And I literally was holding my breath that whole night because you can hear me

Speaker 31 like in between the shit because I was so hot in there. Yes.
And

Speaker 31 I had fans in there

Speaker 31 in the costume. In the costume.

Speaker 31 But you can hear the fans in the mic. So they had to cut them off

Speaker 31 in order for the mic to be clean on my face. And they taped it to my sideburns and my lips.
And I'm like, okay, I'm y'all are gonna make me lose this thing. And I was like, you know what?

Speaker 31 I'm gonna just lock in.

Speaker 31 Here we go.

Speaker 31 And then I just sang it without taking a breath for that whole take.

Speaker 31 And that's what won me the whole thing. I didn't take one breath that whole time.
I was so scared. I didn't take one breath that entire time that I was singing.
That's it.

Speaker 31 I'm gonna get you out of here on this.

Speaker 31 What is T-Pain most proud of?

Speaker 31 what is your grandest accomplishment

Speaker 31 t-pain's most

Speaker 31 t-pain's most grandest accomplishment i honestly and i you know i say it in interviews and i i've said it in this interview and i i will keep saying it

Speaker 31 my wife loved me and my kids don't hate me

Speaker 31 because i know so many that that is not the case wow i know so many

Speaker 31 people and so many guys that have kids and have a wife that hates them. That they, they, you know, they call it the old ball and chain.

Speaker 31 My wife doesn't do that to me. My wife, you know, she comes on the road with me.
I never, I never go anywhere without her. My kids don't hate me.
My kids love everything that I do.

Speaker 31 I talk to my kids like we best friends.

Speaker 31 You know,

Speaker 31 everything that I do,

Speaker 31 my

Speaker 31 wife and kids are a part of it. Wow.
That is, that is,

Speaker 31 that is such an accomplishment for a black man

Speaker 31 that it's

Speaker 31 kind of like a flex. It's damn near like an outfit.
It's just like,

Speaker 31 you know,

Speaker 31 when his manager, when they're like, you look like

Speaker 31 that take care of your kids, old ass.

Speaker 31 Like,

Speaker 31 damn, what?

Speaker 31 Yeah. And And my wife loved me too.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Speaker 31 I bet your wife loved you, old bitch-ass hoe.

Speaker 31 Like, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 31 Yeah, you know what love feels like? Whole-ass?

Speaker 31 Like, damn, like, it's an insult now. Because we don't, we, we, sometimes we don't feel like we deserve the shit.
Yeah. And we really do.
We really do.

Speaker 31 And to have somebody there that actually with us and to have your kids, you know, and to grow up with your kids. Yeah.
It's awesome.

Speaker 31 To, you know, to have that stereotype of fatherless, you know, black, fatherless kids and shit like that.

Speaker 31 Like, to be able to grow with your kids and to have a wife that loves you, man, that is, I think that's.

Speaker 31 I mean, I can really be like,

Speaker 31 T-Pain, your mama, hoe. Yeah, my wife loved me, though.

Speaker 31 Like, you know what I mean? Like, that's a

Speaker 31 T-Pain. Your dad ain't never love you.
I mean, My kids do. My kids love me, though.

Speaker 31 You know what I mean?

Speaker 31 So it's like a...

Speaker 31 What can hurt you

Speaker 31 when nothing can?

Speaker 31 You know what I mean?

Speaker 31 Like, that's the, it's such a flex. It's such a

Speaker 31 pedestal in life to where,

Speaker 31 man, y'all can't do nothing to me.

Speaker 31 I can literally go broke broke tomorrow. I can lose all my money tomorrow, but I'm still rich as f

Speaker 31 because my kids and my wife love me. Damn, that is a flex.

Speaker 31 Y'all make sure y'all go stream club, husband. Bro, when you come, when you do,

Speaker 31 when you do that cover again, when you have that one, two, three nights, if it's somewhere close, bro, I'm coming. Thanks.
Because, bro, you got some vocals. Like I said, look.

Speaker 31 Rap, we can go who, run, what, but ain't no rapper dead or alive to match this man's voice. That's what I'm doing.

Speaker 31 T-Pain, ladies and gentlemen. Gang alive.
Hey, yeah.

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