There was a time when <a href="/profile/TPain" class="text-word" target="_blank" >T-Pain</a> was consistently ridiculed for his use of auto-tune. The artist&#8217;s music has<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/bryson-tiller-and-t-pain-insist-theyre-not-rappers-news.110857.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> transcended genres </a>as he&#8217;s drifted through Rap, Hip Hop, Pop, and more, and while many of his singles topped the charts and are considered classics today, T-Pain faced an onslaught of backlash over his sound. Now, you can&#8217;t listen to a Rap playlist without being confronted with track after track where an artist is utilizing auto-tune to its fullest degree, and T-Pain believes he&#8217;s influenced the culture.
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T-Pain caught up with Black Girl Nerds and said that he&#8217;s not bothered by the &#8220;jokes and comments&#8221; about his use of auto-tune because it&#8217;s been replicated in today&#8217;s music. &#8220;The way that it&#8217;s spread and the way that everybody&#8217;s using it now, that lets me know <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/why-is-t-pain-overlooked-news.98486.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">I&#8217;ve been doing the right thing</a> from the beginning, &#8217;cause if I wasn&#8217;t doing the right thing, nobody else would have done it. Why would you copy something that&#8217;s bad? I know I&#8217;ve been doing the right thing from the jump.&#8221;
He was asked if he believes that he was an influence for people to use auto-tune and T-Pain answered, &#8220;Absolutely.&#8221; He added, &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t gone anywhere. It hasn&#8217;t been any different. And the fact that people are—even newer artists are still using it and people are coming into it and still using it. I knew I was doing the right thing. I needed everybody else to catch on.&#8221;
The music icon also spoke about<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/t-pain-and-lil-jon-plot-joint-tour-post-pandemic-after-verzuz-success-news.109385.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> his Verzuz with Lil Jon</a> and said that after it was over, his phone wouldn&#8217;t stop ringing off the hook. Check out T-Pain&#8217;s full interview with Black Girl Nerds below and revisit his classic hit &#8220;Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin&#8217;)&#8221;<a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/yung-joc-talks-pandemic-wedding-planning-viral-rideshare-moment-and-new-rick-ross-collab-news.127313.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> featuring Yung Joc</a>.
Also, make sure to check out our feature: <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/auto-tune-in-hip-hop-a-brief-history-from-t-pain-to-future-news.122367.html" class="cover-title endlessScrollCommon-title-anchor article">Auto-Tune In Hip-Hop: A Brief History From T-Pain To Future</a>.
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