February 5, 2024
T-Pain Removes His Name From Country Songs Due To ‘The Racism That Comes After’
When it comes to including his name in the country music he writes, T-Pain opts out to avoid "the racism that comes after."
T-Pain is a lot more than autotune and R&B crooning. The Florida native has been letting the world see his prowess within other music genres during his live shows. However, when it comes to including his name in the country music he writes, T-Pain opts out to avoid “the racism that comes after.”
The “Bartender” singer, born Faheem Rashad Najm, took to Instagram on Tuesday, Jan. 30, to speak candidly about his love for other music genres. Particularly country and gospel, two genres he credits for influencing the “harmonies” within his own style of music.
“Good music is good music. I don’t give a fu*k where it come from or what style it come in,” he says to the camera. “All the people I know feel like it’s not cool to listen to other genres of music.”
In fact, T-Pain loves country music so much that he’s even penned a few country tracks for other artists that he opts out of receiving credit for due to racism.
“I done wrote a lotta country songs. Stopped taking credit for it because as cool as it is to see your name in those credits and sh*t like that, the racism that comes after it is just like…..,” he shares.
“I’ll just take the check,” he added with a laugh.
Fans in the comments showed their support for T-Pain’s country music endeavors and requested to hear some of his country jams.
“Now i want to hear these Tpain country tunes,” one fan wrote.
“I need Chris Stapelton and Tpain to do a song together,” added someone else.
T-Pain performed live at the Sun Rose Room in West Hollywood, California, last year and went viral with his rendition of Chris Stapleton’s country music classic “Tennessee Whiskey.”
Elsewhere, he performed his rendition of Ozzy Osbourne’s “War Pigs,” and received praise from the Prince of Darkness himself.
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