{"id":83468,"date":"2014-10-30T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=83468"},"modified":"2014-10-30T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:57:35","slug":"t-pain-npr-music-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/t-pain-npr-music-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIjXUg1s5gc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>T-Pain&#8217;s fingerprints are all over pop and R&#038;B and hip-hop. He wasn&#8217;t the first musician to use Auto-Tune as an instrument \u2014 he noticed it on a Jennifer Lopez remix, and remembers &#8220;Deep&#8221; well \u2014 but it was, as he says, his style. For a while, in the mid-2000s, he lived at the top of the charts. He dominated that brief moment of our lives when ringtones were a thing. He was celebrated as an innovator, and he happily took his talents where he was invited, which was everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>But somewhere along the way, somebody got it twisted. &#8220;People felt like I was using it to sound good,&#8221; says T-Pain, in an interview that will air on All Things Considered. &#8220;But I was just using it to sound different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He just turned 30, but T-Pain has already done enough to drop a greatest hits album next week. We asked him if he&#8217;d grace the Tiny Desk without any embellishment or effects to show what&#8217;s really made his career: his voice, and those songs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Pain&#8217;s fingerprints are all over pop and R&#038;B and hip-hop. He wasn&#8217;t the first musician&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-lIg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}