I really respect Usher,” he recalled in the exclusive clip. In a clip from the upcoming Netflix series This Is Pop, published by Entertainment Weekly, the 35-year-old spoke about how criticism from veterans like Usher left him demoralized as the industry sought a scapegoat for the popularized use of auto-tune.
T-Pain is now revealing how steering the hip hop zeitgeist of the early aughts led him into a spiraling four-year depression. After the debut of his hit single “I’m Sprung” climbed the charts in 2005, the voice-alteration technology would be rightfully dubbed “The T Pain Effect” and birthed a generation of rappers who incorporated the voice effects into their catalog.
The use of auto-tune’s innovative capabilities has always been alive and well in pop music but the digital processor’s revolutionary surge in hip-hop arenas can easily be traced to none of other than T-Pain.
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