Why t pain stopped singing hooks

None of it matters. Kanye has done backpack rap. But some of the best Kanye is the Kanye we got in , when the greatest rapper alive became a Eurodance sensation. To be a Kanye fan is to be locked in a constant cycle of anger and reluctant admiration.

Somehow he always manages to win the world back and it usually only takes a moment or two. And when he hits, boy does he hit. This track has his trademark high-minded classical bent Those strings! That Otis sample!

Yeezy is one of the few rappers in the world who can take a King Crimson sample all the way to 22 in the Hot Kanye paints himself as sympathetic, but not overwhelmingly so.

An ugly, gristly slab of Trent Reznor-esque Goth-pop, with Kanye standing resolute, unfurling haymaker after haymaker on an unexpecting America. When we watched him perform this song on "Saturday Night Live" in its live debut, it was proof that the fun and games were officially over. It never charted, it was never even released as a single. Peaking at No. And, most importantly, nobody — from New York City to Paris to outer space — will think of fish filet the same way ever again.

Soon, everyone was using Auto-Tune; listeners simply got sick of it, and he became a martyr for having influenced the trend. But what has made T-Pain most resentful since his fall from the top was seeing certain artists use Auto-Tune and not get criticized; rather, they were celebrated as innovators in a way that T-Pain never was. In an interview this past January with Vladimir Lyubovny, a d. Fuck you and everything you stand for. Hearing T-Pain recount these slights, one may suspect that he is trotting them out strategically, in service of getting press and laying the groundwork for the release of his next album.

But so what if he is? Anyone who has ever felt the sting of ridicule should be able to relate to his experiences, especially given how, contrary to what one might expect from a prosperous grown man with a stack of No. As he told the radio personality Sway , the criticism and mockery convinced him that he actually was worthless as an artist. Before I call T-Pain to interview him on a recent Friday evening, his publicist warns me not to expect bitterness but optimism—a T-Pain who no longer cares what anyone thinks, and is ready to return to center stage on his own terms.

People always tell him it makes no sense for someone in his position to care so much about idiot teen-agers posting comments on social media. Yeah, I can buy shit. But I want people to like me, too! For his new album, Precious Stones , he will be working as a one-person operation with no management and label under his belt. Striving for creative salvation, Pain left Cinematic Records -- where he released his effort 1Up -- to do things his way.

I learned enough from the game in previous years, and [I'm] trying to really articulate my own ideas instead of a team of people trying to do what they think is best for T-Pain," he relays. I'm real proud of this album right now. With Pain in the driver's seat for his new album, exploring different ways of recording has satisfied his appetite.

Whether he's recording with four people on one microphone or playing with The Kongos on a record, Pain is having the time of his life making the music that rings true to him. Being independent might seem like a massive hurdle for Pain, but he's used to having the odds stacked against him. Though he has proven to be a formidable hook-man and hitmaker throughout his career, criticism about his usage of AutoTune initially pulled him down mentally. Instead of wallowing in despair, Pain stood up and thrived under pressure, performing without AutoTune during his Tiny Desk concert for NPR and in , when he clinched the title on Fox's singing competition The Masked Singer.

Auto-Tune or not, I'm still putting out smashes -- it don't matter what it is. Even if I was the Auto-Tune guy, I'd still make smashes.