T-Pain"Epiphany"Era

[roentgenizdat]

10/13: 51 72 T-PAIN EPIPHANY 11,314 13,181 -14 675,155
10/20: 72 81 T-PAIN EPIPHANY 11,250 11,314 -1 686,405



SHOT: T-Pain - Bryan Barber, director

artist: T-Pain
song: "Church"
label: Jive/ZLG
director(s): Bryan Barber
production co: Believe Media

The video is a tie-in with the film Step Up 2 The Streets which will be released February 14, 2008.

[sdot23]

T-Pain Busy With Production, Label, Touring

It's shaping to be a very 2008 for T-Pain. The rapper tells Billboard he will continue supporting his Jive album, "Epiphany," while writing and producing for other artists and developing the acts signed to his label, Nappy Boy, which has various major-label partners.

Of his Nappy Boy artists, he's particularly excited about a group called Girlfriend, which he expects will have a single out early next year, via Nappy Boy/Atlantic.

Expect Nappy Boy to launch as a digital label early in January. Two other label acts will be rapper Tay Dizm, whose album will arrive in March, and T-Pain's original rap group, the Nappy Headz.

"Nappy Boy is T-Pain's brand and umbrella label," manager Michael Blumstein says. "The label will be a full-fledged indie label with PR, promo and everything else a physical label has, but will never go physical. You'll never see any albums in retail stores."

Meanwhile, T-Pain's own work will be everywhere in the coming months. On the branding side, he's working with eyewear maker Oakley to develop a signature line of T-Pain "Oil Can" frames. Musically, he's produced at least four songs, Blumstein says, on Usher's spring album, including possible first single "At the Time," and is featured on upcoming songs from Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson and Rick Ross. He's also co-producing Omarion's next project with Timbaland.


While the rapper obviously loves work, he's less fond of his time on the road. "I don't really like tours," he says. "It's too demanding. You got tour rules. You can't be you and they stop you from doing stuff and you can't do what you want to do onstage."

Still, Blumstein says T-Pain is "99%" confirmed for Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour, which is slated to begin in late February/March 2008. And, T-Pain plans to tour on his own after releasing his next album, its title still to be determined, in summer 2009.

Plans are even loosely being discussed for T-Pain to eventually ditch physical releases entirely. "Pain's got to fulfill another three albums for Jive, say five or six years," Blumfield says. "But once he fulfills that, he'll release records through Nappy Boy Entertainment. By then there'll be no physical stores outside of larger chains."

[Wavey✨️]

Workin Man.

[reception]

Nov 2, 10:44 PM EDT
Rapper Surrenders in License Violation

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Rapper T-Pain turned himself in Friday after being wanted on an outstanding warrant for driving with a suspended license, police said.

Officers observed T-Pain, whose real name is Faheem Najm, driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in June. At the time, his driver's license had been revoked for being a habitual traffic violator, officials reported.

The 23-year-old Tallahassee native turned himself in at the Leon County jail and was later released. He was to perform Sunday at the Tallahassee Civic Center.

A telephone message left with T-Pain's manager Friday night was not returned.

[Wavey✨️]

Uh Oh T-Pain lol.
This man is crazy with his voice everywhere doesn't he have like 9 Songs n the BB Hot 100
with him in it?

[Alex]

I live in Tallahassee, FL. He was here to perform at Florida A&M's Homecoming Concert. I think he still performed tonight, but I'm not sure (I'll find out tomorrow). At least he turned himself in and got it over with. His real name is hideous. And so is his face.

[**βécky**™]

^ but not his Vocodered voice.lol

[areyoureadytojump]

11/17 charts

126 T-PAIN EPIPHANY 6,036 6,712 -10% 716,252 (no cert yet)

[areyoureadytojump]

1/12/08 chart:

RE-ENTRY 183 T-PAIN EPIPHANY 7,585 -30% 10,895 769,646 (not certified)

[Alex]

Looks like the album won't reach 1,000,000 copies until Christmas 2008. Wow! That sucks. He reminds me of Rihanna: big singles but can't go platinum.

[SHOOTER]

^I agree. It's ridiculous that he had one of the biggest hits of 2007 and still hasn't sold 1 million.

[reception]

2008 Sony BMG Grammy After-Party

[sdot23]

LMAO!

[Mic Technique]

LOL. Sick hat.

[shaq91]

next single??

[busyboy]

He's working on a new album so I don't think he will release another single from Epiphany. And anyway, after "Bartender" he didn't exactly have another hit so it would be pointless.