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Freep.com has an interesting article on the irony that is T-Pain:

• His favorite lyrical topic is the strip club, but he’s married with children.

• He is the king of Auto-Tune, the software that typically is used to correct a singer’s pitch, but that he distinctively taps to process his voice into a signature robo-croon. Unlike most performers, he eschews the use of it live.

• He’s had some clown phobia in the past, but his new album “Thr33 Ringz” and stage show have a circus theme and employ clowns and fire-eaters.

And the money quote:

As for the strip club fixation — the first two singles from “Thr33 Ringz,” “Can’t Believe It” and “Chopped & Skrewed,” both feature the gentlemen’s hideaway prominently — T-Pain says his wife is totally down with it. “She was always with me at the strip clubs. … I leave that part out of the songs. It’s not really appealing, like, ‘Hey, I want to talk to you while I’m in the club and by the way my wife is like two seats down from us.’ My songs are usually about real situations and stuff like that, but I try to leave that part out.”

Uh huh. But T-pain goes on to say he’s quite fair when it comes to his wife visiting male strip clubs:

So would he turn the tables and go with her to, say, Danny’s of Windsor? “She has no interest. … Yeah, I’d go. It’s only fair.”

SMH.

I admit I feel about T-Pain in much the same way I felt about R-Kelly back in the day: I enjoy their music, but I realize I completely and utterly wrong it is. I mean really, T-Pain has got to be the elementary school rapper/singer. Let’s check out the lyrics to “Bartender” lyrics:

Oh she made us drinks, to drink
We drunk ‘em, got drunk
And then I think she thinks I’m cool
She gave me a wink, I winked back
And then I think that, we headed out something proper like…

Oh yeah the thought, depth and originality of that chorus. And that’s why the article mentions that T-Pain is accused of “dumbing down” hip-hop. It’s like rhymes written by preschoolers. As a matter o fact we can call it “nursery rap rhymes,” ’cause that’s how childish and nonsensical they did to be.

And lately I think T-Pain has been suffering from the Kells curse as well, his music has gotten so out there that it’s just not good anymore. All that dumbing down is catching up with him. Let’s be real, when Kelly started rapping about midgets I knew it was the beginning of the end. If the pedophilia rap didn’t kill him, his bad music would.

T-Pain’s latest solo efforts are treading in the land of the weird and outright dumb. It really makes you scratch your head and say, “Huh?” However, I wouldn’t go so far as to predict his demise just yet. I think we are gonna here a lot more of T-Pain for some time to go. Whether we want to or not.