T-Pain Got an iPhone App, Lil Kim Got Crazy Looking
- story Matthew Schnipper
Okay so not surprisingly big news that T-Pain is cashing in on the two things that make tons of money in our recession—Apple products and Auto-Tune—combining them into I Am T-Pain, an iPhone app that runs your voice through some Willy Wonka gerbilizer and makes you sound like laffy taffy. Gizmodo has a good technical rundown of the program, which seems like it may be worth your three dollars. The above video is just T-Pain showing it to a bunch of rappers, singers and Asher Roth, and is mostly unremarkable with the exception of how completely insane Lil Kim looks. This is probably old news, but it just seemed particularly egregious, like some obsessive Jocelyn Wildenstein fan. Kim, you are too cool to become a cat lady, from now on please let Auto-Tune be your most unnatural indulgence.
Schnipper’s Slept On
- story Matthew Schnipper
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s T-Pain’s “I’m Sprung” 12-inch. Watch the video and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.
Freeload: T-Pain + Tha Bizness = T-Wizness
- story THE FADER
Just when we thought we were getting closer to that T-Wayne album we’ve so openly lusted after, Mr. Big Ass Chain seems to have shifted his collaborative attention to working with one of our newest production obsessions, Tha Bizness. The duo inspired Pain to revisit the days before he turnt sanga on “Special Guest,” which is somehow no less the serenade for Pain’s rapping. “It’s So Easy” features Sophia Fresh (actually a group of three) and finds Pain using some type of pocket autotune that doesn’t equalize his voice so much as bend it into teenage gnome territory.
Download: T-Pain, “Special Guest”
Download: T-Pain f. Sophia Fresh, “It’s So Easy”
Jay-Z “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)” CDQ + Sample Source + Summer Jam Video THAT’S IT
- story THE FADER
Since debuting Friday night on Flex’s Hot 97 show, Jay’s new street single for Blueprint 3 has appeared in our inboxes in at least five different incarnations: radio rip, radio rip w/out DJ Clue’s name being edited out of the third verse, clean CD-quality, dirty CD-quality and CD-quality with extra cheese. This is apparently the CDQ version but still sounds a little muddy to us. Regardless, expect there to be 1,001 rappers jumping on No I.D.’s ridiculous beat in the next month or so.
A couple days ago we were thinking this might ignite the kind of creative nuclear war that would see super producers and rappers and rappas ternt sangas launching megaton jams for the rest of the summer. Jay bringing out T-Pain during his performance of “D.O.A.” at Summer Jam yesterday (video above) makes it pretty clear they’re all bros. So, unless DJ Webstar or Ron Browz or Ricky Blaze or Cher or all of Jamaica decide to go in, it looks like we’re just going to get a well-conceived plan to market Blueprint 3. Unless, that is, Lil Wayne has something to say about all this? Come on, dudes, give us something. Jay-Z just sonned your whole life.
Download: Jay-Z “D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)”
Download: Janko Nilovic “In the Space” (No ID’s sample source for “D.O.A.”)
Freeload: Rick Ross f. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T-Pain, “Maybach Music 2″
- story THE FADER
This song literally starts exactly like the Berlitz French tape that’s been stuck in the office jambox for the last year—soft strings, tumbling keys, inviting sax— only instead of learning how to find a bathroom we learn that Ross, Yeezy, Weezy and T-Pain still make other people sound super boring. The irony being that we already knew that and still don’t know how to poop in France.
Download: Rick Ross f. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & T-Pain, “Maybach Music 2″
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posted on Apr 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags freeload, hip hop, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T-Pain
Freeload: T-Wayne “He Raps He Sings It’s T-Wayne”
- story THE FADER
OMFG INTERNET, WE LOVE YOU. Not only did we unearth a single from the mythical T-Wayne (T-Pain f. Lil Wayne) project from your boundless coffers… the song is titled as though the two are embarking on some sort of Looney Tunes-style early 20th Century vaudeville act. So much better than the Itchy and Scratchy Show! As stated, T-Pain is rapping (murdering, really) on this track, while Wayne is singing his face off, all over a kind of devilish reggae beat. We are not mad, never were. In fact we’re throwing a little confetti-and-coffee party in the office to celebrate the reality of T-Wayne. So, so real. So psyched.
Download: T-Wayne, “He Raps He Sings It’s T-Wayne”
Freeload: YV f. T-Pain + Fabo, “Own Step”
- story THE FADER
New song from YV, the dude you’ll probably remember from the Willy Will produced semi-hit “I Got a Dollar.” This time around he’s got T-Pain and the always welcome Fabo, who, once he escapes from label purgatory, could possibly release the spaceship rap magnum opus we know he has in him.
Download: YV f. T-Pain + Fabo, “Own Step” (via BLVD ST)
Freeload: Jamie Foxx f. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes & T-Pain, “Blame It (Remix)”
- story THE FADER
Dudes, if we wrote down everything we’ve blamed on the alcohol you could have a ticker tape parade, but what makes this song kind of touching is the knowledge that Jamie Foxx frequently gets twisted and dances with Joaquin Phoenix. It’s not a hollow club song, it means something to Jamie.
Download: Jamie Foxx f. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes & T-Pain, “Blame It (Remix)”
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posted on Jan 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Busta Rhymes, freeload, hip hop, Jamie Foxx, Lil Wayne, R&B, T-Pain
Video: T-Pain f. Chris Brown, “Freeze”
- story THE FADER
Pretty good fx by Syndrome and probably the best starting still frame of 2009, but they still have a long way to go to surpass the greatness of Homeboy Sandman’s lightning bolts.
Auto-Tune Voted for McCain/Palin
- story THE FADER
We obviously don’t have the same animosity toward Auto-Tune as most other hip hop listeners on the internet, but this made us laugh pretty good. Some dudes calling themselves Roger Riley and Teddy Troutman recently made a couple Auto-Tuned remixes of Black Moon and A Tribe Called Quest’s classics available to Rappers I Know, and while it’s obvious the intent was to put a nail in the software’s coffin, we have to say that we are actually into Phife’s verse on “Electric Relaxation.” It’s like being in a room with a robot parrot or what we thought Dan Deacon would sound like after reading his press release. If the Death of Autotune project these songs are supposedly from ever surfaces, we will play it like Girl Talk at Microsoft’s Christmas party.
Download: Roger Riley & Teddy Troutman, “Buck Em Down” b/w “Electric Relaxation” from Death of Autotune
