It’s either small club shows or weak festivals and stuff like that. No, no, no. The show scene in Tallahassee has changed tremendously. I didn't get noticed until I started singing, so that helped out a lot.įrom 2005: Tallahassee's T-Pain becomes hot commodityĭid you play local shows when you first started out? I wanted to be a rapper turned singer and that’s what really changed my career. So yeah, while I was in Tallahassee everyone was rapping and that’s why I named my first album “Rappa Ternt Sanga.” I felt like I was getting swallowed up in all these rappers and I thought, “I need to change something." So I became one of the singers. Actually, I knew four singers, but three of them were in a group and two didn’t even live in Tallahassee. I think I knew two singers and that was, as far as the R&B side of things, all I knew.
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It’s the only place I have gone to every time I have been in Tallahassee.Ĭan you describe the Tallahassee music scene when you began writing and recording music? I used to eat there every day when I was in Tallahassee so every time I go back, that’s the main place. Q: How often are you traveling to Tallahassee?Ī: I actually visit a lot, I just try not to make it known.
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In an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat, T-Pain talks about his new album, his mixology book and his hometown of Tallahassee.
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“I don’t even think I realized this for a long time - that’s the very moment that started a four-year depression for me,” T-Pain said in a clip from a Netflix docuseries “This Is Pop,” out Tuesday. Usher allegedly told the Tallahassee singer he damaged the music industry “for real singers.” In April, T-Pain discovered a wealth of missed Instagram direct messages that caused a social media frenzy after he posted a reaction video apologizing to the many celebrities who reached out over the years.Ī brief clip of T-Pain opening up about a difficult conversation he had with singer Usher, early in his career, has received national headlines, too.