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Lil Wayne Is In Favor Of The Redistribution Of Wealth


Lil Wayne, T-Pain, and Mack Maine's rhyming Robin Hood act in the video for "Got Money" not only shows why so many banks are turned into dance clubs by developers who are bored by having depositories on their books, it reveals the guys' seemingly easy strategy for giving money back to the people—throwing it out of the backs of trucks. (Just make sure you don't get hit by the pursuing cop car, everybody!) My only complaint is that they couldn't get an Ethan Hunt-dangling-from-the-ceiling Mission: Impossible homage in there somehow, but perhaps they're saving that for the sequel that was hinted at near the clip's end. [YouTube]

9:15 AM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Maura Johnston
452 views, 6 comments

Latest by the rich girls are weeping: @Tauwan: I hate feeling like I'm being beat around the head with a song. That's totally what "When I Grow Up" is like. But oh no! The HA HA HA HA is stuck in my head now, and the mushy, more »

rappa turnt steala

T-Pain Sued For Stealing "I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" From TV's Huggy Bear

So here's how the great "I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" heist of 2005 went down. Three producers—Rodney King (no, not him), Jeff Byrd, and James Reese—wrote a song named "Makin' Luv 2 A Player" in 1997, which was then recorded by Antonio Fargas, a.k.a. TV's "Huggy Bear." A year later, King and Fargas met with Steve Rifkind, then-owner of Loud Records, who was interested in having the Wu-Tang Clan or Fat Joe redo the track. The parties couldn't come to a mutual agreement, but Rifkind allegedly kept a copy of the song. Eventually, according to the producers, T-Pain was given a copy of the song by Akon; his label Konvict Music, which signed T-Pain, was connected to Rifkind's SRC Records. Because this Antonio Fargas track is just that damn good. More »

5:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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everybody's a winner

BET Awards Honor The Young, The Old, The Dead, And The-Dream

The list of winners from last night's BET Awards is full of fascination and surprise for any nerd who can't help but care. Did the right "feat. T-Pain" win Best Collaboration? (Yes.) Is Missy Elliott doing better than any female artist who actually released an album in the last year? (Lil' Mama was robbed!) Did UGK deserve "Best Group" and "Best Video" more than Playaz' Circle and Ashanti or was it just a tribute to the passing Pimp C? (Both.) Kanye over Lil' Wayne? (Weezy will have to settle for Viewer's Choice.) Chris Brown over Ne-Yo? (A tragic tear under a tilted hat.) More »

3:45 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Anthony Miccio
279 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: So how exactly does one make the Video of the Year, and NOT be named Video Director of the year? more »

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Lil Mama Gets Real, Encourages T-Pain To Join Her


Lil Mama told SOHH over the weekend that her album VYP—which has fallen off the Billboard charts after just two months in stores—was completely botched by Jive. "My fan base is out of this world and the youth really look up to me and I know for a fact my album wasn't promoted correctly because people would come up to me like, 'Oh your album is out?' Or, 'This is the second one?' " Well, perhaps the ultimate recognition-booster in today's frenetic music world—a single with T-Pain—will help lift her profile. "What It Is (Strike A Pose)" is certainly deserving of it; it's a pretty straightforward track that has a big chunk of of old-school charm. Also: I'm pretty sure T-Pain is actually singing without AutoTune enhancement—you can actually hear him inhale at one point! [YouTube via THIS IZ HIP-HOP / SOHH via RealTalkNY]

9:00 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Maura Johnston
187 views, 6 comments

Latest by Nunya B: @bcapirigi: It still tosses the whole album rather fascinatingly off-course- good for me to nerd out to, bad for sales. more »

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I Cannot Get "Butternut Reduction" Out Of My Head


The first part of this cartoon, involving a phone conversation between Akon and T-Pain, is cute enough, but it's Snoop Dogg's "Buttermilk Butternut Reduction" that's had me going back to this thing all morning. "And then we roast it slow...surround it with escargot..." I don't know, maybe I've been watching too much Top Chef.
Akon Calls T-Pain [Superdeluxe, via Notes From A Different Kitchen]
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12:45 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,972 views, 5 comments

maybe the failure of charlie wilson's war rubbed off

Time To Get With The Charlie Wilson Program, People

While it seems that having T-Pain on your track is enough to drive a song to the top these days, apparently that axiom doesn't quite apply to 55-year-old Charlie Wilson, formerly of the Gap Band. America, you've let 2 Pistols have a moment in the sun—it's time to give some love to Uncle Charlie. (Wait, that doesn't sound exactly like I had intended.) More »

12:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Dan Gibson
212 views, 3 comments

this post almost featured t-pain

I've Officially Lost Touch With Urban Youth Culture


I like to think of myself as having my finger on the pulse of youth culture (not literally, as per my agreement with the state of Arizona). When I spent a evening at the local skating rink, I managed to keep up with the pre-drinking age DJ's and their "Does The White Guy Know Urban Music?" quiz. But reading through the radio charts this morning, I realized quickly that T-Pain is releasing music quicker than I can hear it at this point. More »

11:05 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Dan Gibson
607 views, 3 comments

Latest by noliebro: I am stunned how modern Hip-hop artists release around 4 albums a year and yet somehow Hip-hop radio plays the same playlist of 10 songs all friggin day....if i hear "shorty she's a ten.." one more time I am gonna more »

Add another name beside "Toby Keith" on the ever-growing list of T-Pain's dream collaborations: "Really, to just do a T-Pain/Limp Bizkit song, that would be awesome for me." Could this rappa-rocka summit prove the end of the sanga's bulletproof Billboard run? Or could T-Pain's magic touch actually get hatless pop pariah Fred Durst back on the radio? [MTV / Photo: AP]

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T-Pain Is N Luv Wit A Strippa The Angry American

If the existence of Lil Jon's Big & Rich remix didn't send enough country-rap chills down your spine, how about the news that T-Pain is sprung off the idea of adding a little "who's your daddy?" to his next Auto-Tuned outing? Mr. Pain has made it known that he'd like naughty Christmas elf Toby Keith to guest on his next album. And if that doesn't work, maybe they could just bro down, get into some trouble involving bartenders, and hate on the Dixie Chicks? More »

2:30 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Jess Harvell
329 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: @JohnDoe: I understand. Sometimes on hip-hop and R&B posts I feel like I'm howling into a wind tunnel. The unfortunate truth is that it's hard to take T-Pain seriously. Most of us, I reckon, are flummoxed by his existence and just more »

We're all probably a little sick of Auto-Tune's stranglehold on pop and urban radio thanks to Akon, T-Pain, and friends, and a title like "Auto-Tune Abuse In Pop Music" might have you expecting the long-awaited polemic against the vocal effect and its recent overuse as a gimmicky aesthetic in its own right, rather than as a studio corrective for weak performances. Yet the author of this engineering/producing blog seems to be serious with "criticisms" like this one about the production on Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls": "'OoooOver' doesn't sound human." Or from the comments: "Surely the T-Pain clip was done purposely to achieve that effect..." You think?? [Hometracked via Daily Swarm]

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blind item

Which Musical Metrosexual Can't Stop Getting His Nails Done?

This is probably the silliest Idolator blind item poll in an illustrious history of silly-ass blind item polls, especially since male beautifying is no longer so verboten as to be shocking. (I'm even shaving more than once a month now. Up next: ironing my shirts.) Nonetheless we must scratch our heads as we wonder: "Which macho crooner secretly loves manicures and pedicures? The ladies' man pretends he's off to the gym whenever he's going to get pampered." Admittedly it was the "macho" part that initially threw us, as it 86's about 95 percent of the XY chromosomes currently clogging Billboard, but we think we've come up with a few distinct possibilities and a couple of outliers. More »

4:45 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Jess Harvell
887 views, 5 comments

Latest by zaky: Barry Manilow! more »

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Lil' Mama Demolishes Everyone In Her Path


"Everyone needs T-Pain, Maura. Haven't you figured that out?" Jess asked me when I griped about the new Lil Mama single, which features T-Pain and Chris Brown, to him. And I can see his point in a way; Lil Mama's follow-up single to "Lip Gloss," the not-bad-at-all "G-Slide (Tour Bus)," was one of those songs that managed to hit only in the alternate pop universe of TRL, and her album's been pushed back so much, she probably won't be very lil by the time it comes out. So starpower can only help her career. But! More »

1:30 PM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By mjohnston
415 views, 5 comments

Latest by jasonelias: I was out by the "Janet Jack" line. more »

No. 3: R. Kelly And Friends Are Dogs On The Prowl And lord help us if a non-flirter gets in their way.

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No. 15: T-Pain Would Like Everyone Reading This To Please Chill You're just way too worked up for Teddy Penderazdoun's comfort zone right now.

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He's N Luv (Wit the Radio): Flo Rida Gives T-Pain Umpteenth Hot 100 Smash Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":

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T-Pain was arrested this morning "on outstanding warrants for a non moving traffic violation and driving while license suspended." Here's hoping he's sprung soon. (Blame Maura for that one.) [HHNLive]

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What Can Brown Do For Us?: Chris Blows a "Kiss" Right Behind Soulja Boy on Hot 100 Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":

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playlisting

You Will Not Escape T-Pain (Especially If You're Watching BET)

The full list of this week's adds to BET's video playlist: More »