But the real reason we love this video is because instead of synths and drums, T-Pain (real name: Teddy Pendergrass) sings over grand piano and violin accompaniment, which transform songs like "Bartender," "Buy U A Drank" and "Best Love Song" from dance hits to heart-wrenching ballads. someone's living room, which immediately gives the clip a more intimate feel than your typical T-Pain music video. Today, he released a new video made with YouTube music video director Kurt Hugo Schneider: a mash-up of some of T-Pain's biggest bangers, and the results are a lot more emotional than you might first expect.
He also recently unearthed an unreleased 2009 mixtape he made with Lil Wayne called T-Wayne and for a moment reminded us all of T-Pain's mid-aughts glory days as the hip-hop industry's patron saint of Auto-Tune. As he's faded from the top of the charts, he's become increasingly self-aware and willing to embrace some goofier (and entertaining-as-hell) projects, like when he performed a riveting Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. MJG, Paul Wall, Pimp C, Too hort, Twista) T-Pain talking God damn lil mama, you aint heard the.