#98: T-Pain; How the King of Autotune Went from $40 Million to $0
The Founder Podcast
Chris Lee
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a new episode of The Founder Podcast. In this episode, I’m joined by the man who made auto-tune a musical masterpiece - T-Pain! This episode pulls no punches, exploring the raw journey of a legendary artist. We'll delve into his humble beginnings, the challenges that tested his limits, and the successes that proved his status as a genre-bending icon. Prepare for unfiltered honesty as T-Pain reflects on his life, his music, and the impact he's had on the industry. Don't miss this chance to see the man behind the mask - an episode that's as real as it gets.
Highlights::
"Money won't solve your problems. It solves your financial issues but not your problems."
"You get to see where people's parameters are; you get to see if I'm down, everybody's cool... But when you get successful again, it's like, 'What makes you so good?'"
"Speak. Say the weird thing. Just do it. Just go. When you say it out loud, it creates problems in the past; when you hold it in, it creates problems in the future."
Timestamps:
00:00 - The Pitfalls of Early Fame
03:33 - Breaking Away from Religious Constraints
06:03 - Family Dynamics: Then vs. Now
10:06 - Evolving Personal Image
15:00 - Learning from Business Failures and Successes
19:30 - The Dark Side of Financial Management
26:10 - The Origin of a Signature Sound
33:04 - The Impact of Industry Critique on Career
37:25 - The Rollercoaster of Public Perception
43:11 - Reflecting on Life After the Show
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| 0:00.0 | I know there are obstacles and there's things that we had to grow up into. |
| 0:03.7 | There's a lot of immature things I did obviously because, you know, maybe don't give a 19 year old |
| 0:09.2 | 40 million dollars. |
| 0:10.2 | I don't know, you know what I mean? |
| 0:11.4 | So, 1940 million bucks, basically know you know. So 1940 million bucks basically what I know I mean that ran dry at one point. |
| 0:16.6 | Where did all go? I have no idea I have no idea. I've got to have some ideas. That's a crazy thing. |
| 0:23.0 | I don't have access to my money. |
| 0:25.0 | Really? |
| 0:26.0 | So I had my account and I had to call my manager to be like, |
| 0:29.0 | hey, yo, I want to buy this thing, |
| 0:31.0 | can you send me some money to my car. |
| 0:33.0 | And then that's how I got money. |
| 0:35.0 | I thought that's how it worked. |
| 0:36.0 | You're asking for permission to use my own money. |
| 0:38.0 | So they came and got me when I was 18 years old. |
| 0:41.0 | Right. |
| 0:42.0 | So I'm thinking that's just how that works |
| 0:43.8 | this must be big business I didn't know my business back then so it's like yeah |
| 0:48.1 | this must be how it works I had no intentions on that being my thing at all yeah |
| 0:51.9 | so I heard it on a Jennifer Lopez song |
| 0:54.0 | and then I was like, I want to try to do that thing for a whole song |
| 0:57.0 | but I don't know what it's called. |
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