Hat-wearing MC T-Pain has become somewhat notorious for his liberal use of AutoTune, which is why his new song “Dope”—which, he says during the introduction, is a taste of his forthcoming album—is surprising: There isn’t a blippy vocal to be found on the track. Instead, what you have is a lot of T-Pain very strenuously rhyming over a bumblebee-swarm beat, with the topic being how he’s rich and can afford to wear the BIG ASS CHAIN seen at left and blah blah blah blah blah. I dunno, I maybe would have rather heard the AutoTune than the bragging about his net worth, you know? There’s a reason I don’t watch those dumb Fabulous Life shows, either. Clip after the jump.
T-Pain feat. Shawnna – Dope [YouTube; HT Vulture]
This is dreadful. His voice sounds rather like my teenage brother when he’s on karaoke during Christmas drunkenness (sorry brother!). If something is going to be mindlessly vapid, it should at least have a nice beat or interesting vocals or blippity bloops to distract the mind and somehow redeem it. Alas.