T-Pain sat down for an interview with The Breakfast Club where he made a sobering admission. The unofficial “Godfather of Auto-Tune” said at one point in his career he had roughly $40 million in his bank account, but due to bad business decisions, he wound up with nothing.
“That’s when I was running out of money,” he said in a clip. “That’s when my accountant was like, ‘Dude, you just bought a Bugatti, you’re out of money.’ And I was like, ‘No I’m not. I got this house I wanna get. I got this other house for my assistants, for my runners and producers.’
“So we bought a house after that and we just started going crazy with money, and I wasn’t paying attention to it. I thought if I didn’t have access to my own accounts then I wouldn’t have to look at it. So you know what I’m saying? It was bad business choices.”
Charlamagne then asked Tallahassee Pain what he meant by” broke” and it turns out he was broke, broke.
“I had to borrow money to get my kids Burger King,” he admitted. “It was a lot of bad investments. [I got into] real estate. I was letting my manager do it and he was way more optimistic than I was.
“He would buy complete dumps and think that we could just paint and we should be fine. Never sold anything I ever bought. These were terrible neighborhoods in Florida [laughs]. Yep, crackhouse for sure. Still a crackhouse right now.”
But last season’s winner of The Masked Singer was taught a valuable lesson and seemingly bounced back with ease.
“You get back up and you learn,” he concluded.
Watch the full interview below.
Sheesh
I hate this fucking stupid f.aggot for bringing all that wack exaggerated auto tune bullshit to the rap game. Look at the state of rap music today…damm near every track has that same retarded auto tune singing/rapping….LAME
You need a Snickers.
I’ll fuck you up you fuckin crook
Lmaoo take your old ass to bed. You still think people want to listen to Tupac and biggies wannabe gangster asses
If you consider 26 to be old then you must be 12 or some shit lmaoo, da fuck you know about hiphop??. I didn’t mention anything about Tupac or biggie either you weirdo. You must be real mad that I’m not a conformist pussy like you lol.
F U WHITE BOY
This dumbass hairline getting pushed back more and more every time I see him because of those stupid ass hairstyles. T-Pain soon bout to be looking like snoop with that helicopter landing pad on his head.
Daaaaaam bro easyyyy!! Lol
T-pain il get you a Whopper just let me fxck you in the ass til there’s shit on my dick
Bitch ass shit
40 mill? T-Pain was wild for that. I get sick to my stomach when my bank hits me with that 25 dollar overdraft fee.
Remember me?
Your name brings nostalgia! Right after losing my virginity I remember laying in bed reading one of your comments. You’re a legend
Been a minute!
blew 40 million? ya right when your net worth says 35 and we all know thats a lie
If he’s being honest of having 40 mil in the bank, I’d need to see a bank statement. Even in this bullshit article he’s quoted saying if he didn’t have access to his own accounts he wouldn’t need to look at it. How many diamond albums you living on, how many sold out 2-3 year worldwide tours you do? How many endorsement deals you catch in on. Your career spanned the era of auto tune singles and ringtones. Even if you made a fair amount of money for features and the odd single, if you ever had that kind of money in the bank my guess is your team wasn’t paying your taxes and you owe half to uncle Sam. Then again maybe he was hanging out with Scott Storch when he blew through his stack. I at least believe he made enough to lose as much as he did.
Fuuuuuuuck thats a lot of money to blow
T-Pain should rename himself to I- Am -An- Idiot.
Blowing $40million is beyond insane. The new MC Hammer or Mike Tyson. The sad thing is autotunes peak is gone so TPain can never get back that chart topping fame he had. Just tragic
$40million. How much hard work did that take to earn $40million?? I struggle to have any sympathy for idiots like this. ‘Bad business decisions’ haha fuckoff, $40million dollars worth of bad business decisions. What an idiot. Guy thought he was bill gates.