Ahead of Jelly Roll’s debut performance at Stagecoach Friday night, the country singer has shared his rendition of Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” featuring an assist from T-Pain. The studio version of the cover, released as part of Amazon Music Originals’ lead-up to Stagecoach, arrives after Jelly Roll spent …
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Pitbull is gearing up for a Party After Dark Tour through North America, which will feature special guest T-Pain on all dates and Lil Jon joining them in select cities. The set is billed to include career-spanning hits along with some surprises. The 26-city jaunt begins on Aug. 21 at …
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If Coachella stages were categorized as internet slang, last week, Heineken House was the IYKYK (If you know, you know) of the nation’s most prominent music festival. Tucked away in the corner of the Empire Polo Club grounds on the festival’s opening weekend, Heineken set up the perfect oasis to …
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T-Pain was at a karaoke party last year when an R&B-flavored country ballad starting playing over the system. The rapper-turned-singer didn’t recognize it, so he opened up Shazam to listen — and the result came back as “Tennessee Whiskey,” by Chris Stapleton. “I made it a part of my ‘sad …
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T-Pain and Snoop Dogg team up for a “Big Adventure” in the duo’s new video for their collaborative single “That’s How We Ballin.” The visual, directed by T-Pain himself, recreates a pair of iconic scenes from the cult classic Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, including the video’s opening, a nod to that …
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T-Pain said he’s going to deliver range with his upcoming covers album. After the musician won The Masked Singer in 2019, he decided to pursue a new project: a covers album, titled On Top of the Covers, which he’s set to release on March 17. The upcoming seven-track album — …
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“We don’t have no movies about Marcus Garvey and the Black Star Line,” Chance the Rapper tells me about the influential Pan-Africanist leader and his short-lived steamship company designed to facilitate travel and commerce across the Black diaspora. “I think it’d be really powerful for Black people to see and …
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T-Pain stopped by The Late Late Show to perform his recent single, “That’s Just Tips.” Dressed in a red suit and white cowboy hat, the rapper gave a high-energy performance of the track along with his live band. The rapper dropped “That’s Just Tips” earlier this week via Nappy Boy …
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T-Pain’s influence over an era of pop music is hard to overstate. From 2005 to 2011, he scored 17 Top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and his innovative, Auto-Tune-fueled blend of rap and R&B laid the groundwork for artists like Kanye West, Travis Scott, and Lil Uzi Vert. …
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