T-Pain has long been considered one of the innovators of bringing Auto-Tune to the mainstream in the late 2000s, leading rappers like Kanye West and Lil Wayne to use it prominently in their music.
According to Diddy’s engineer Matt Testa, the Hip Hop mogul saw T-Pain as the architect of the movement and even asked for his permission to use Auto-Tune. After receiving the green light, T-Pain ended up getting royalties without contributing anything other than his influence. In a new interview with Revolt, Testa told the story and explained how the sound at that time shaped Diddy-Dirty Money’s Last Train to Paris album.
“At that time, T-Pain was heavy on the Auto-Tune and was running up the charts,” he said. “Puff played it off as a joke, but was serious when he told T-Pain, ‘I want your permission to use auto-tune.’ T-Pain was like, ‘Yeah, whatever. It’s not mine, you can use it (laughs).’ He ended up giving Pain a royalty point on the album and [the agreement] was written on a napkin. Pain definitely got that point because I spoke to him recently (laughs).
He added, “I also remember that one of the first records we ever cut was ‘Strobe Lights’ and it had that dope synth in it with a low texture, auto-tune heavy vocals. Around that time, Kanye [West]’s ‘Love Lockdown’ came out and I remember Puff saying, ‘Fuck! This dude is going to take my sound. That’s what I’m going for. I want that vibe.’ But, Kanye went a little left [with 808s & Heartbreak] and we kept it really soulful.”
T-Pain appeared on The Breakfast Club in November 2017 and reflected on other artists copying what he was doing.
“You can’t bounce back from blatantly copying my swag and then be like, ‘Yo, we cool now?’ — no,” he said. “I didn’t have to repair that because they know what they did. And it was the people that called me to get on those songs, so they was calling me to get on those songs so they could use it.
“It was just a whole generation of people like, if you get T-Pain on this you can do exactly what he does. And then after that, you don’t have to get him anymore because he’s already solidified, he’s got the T-Pain stamp and he can just keep running with it. I got tricked into other people stealing my swag.”
He added he wouldn’t have been upset if artists simply paid homage.
Diddy celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Last Train to Paris on Monday (December 14) by sharing unreleased footage in the studio with Kid Cudi and Busta Rhymes.
Both artists never made it onto the final version of the album, which went on to feature Swizz Beatz, The Notorious B.I.G., Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, T.I., Chris Brown and many others.
And to lick his butthole
Fuck Diddy
“Hi, yeah… I’m going to steal your shit so…. yeah….take that,take that.”
Diddy isn’t Hip Hop, He’s LBGTQ
Can we get a Tpain vs lil yachty battle.. new v.old
Yatchy sucks ass
Diddy does too just in a different way that’s NSFW lol
Diddy is looking to sign Samwell and Fly Young Red and Lil Nas X to form the Supergroup, The DaSackBoyz
Funny cause he didn’t pay most of his artists
And still doesn’t
And yet he still hasn’t paid Mase for what he was worth .
Fact
This dude 100% responsible for BIGs death and he profited off of it for that album after. Who gives a fuck what he did for tpain
You mad cos a weak clown like puffy is Diddy rich. Lies damned lies.
No, he’s a bandit. He’s steals royalties, publishing, producer credits,and male booty. That’s all not only true, it’s been verified. Ask Jaguar Wright about what she walked in on between Christopher Williams and Diddy. Or ask Diddy’s ex-bodyguard, Gene Deal about the gay bars and clubs that he had to go to. The fact that Diddy openly identifies as gender fluid. I mean c’mon son. The fact that Styles P threw a chair at Diddy and wanted out of Bad Boy Records wasn’t just about the money. Why you think Jadakiss and Sheek Louch don’t speak on it much. The fact that Diddy, a grown man likes to take other grown men who aren’t his children shopping. He’s Rupaul Billy Porter Jussie Smollett Gay.
But no respect for Pete Rock and stilling the beat for Juicy???? Pay Pete f#$ker.
No shit…this story came out when the album did? WTF is this doing on here now?