Overcoming Personal Battles with T-Pain

The GaryVee Audio Experience

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 18.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a conversation I had back in 2017 with T-Pain. We discuss his profound influence on the music industry, the challenges of navigating credit and recognition, the dynamics of changing the game, and facing resistance. We also talk about his personal journey of overcoming depression. This episode is perfect for anyone looking to gain insights into the music industry, personal resilience, and the importance of embracing change.

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0:00.0	This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.
0:05.0	T-Pain for the 70 people who are watching right now that don't know who you are.
0:11.3	Give me a little bit of your origin story.
0:13.3	You know, Tallahassee Payne, T-Pain, hella from Tallahassee, Florida, came up pretty much
0:20.1	on my own, did my thing and got noticed by Acon, Acon Tommy, then this was 2005, Acon
0:28.3	Tommy 2005 in the same year.
0:30.5	He took me to job records, got me signed to job records, which job records is now on RCA records.
0:36.9	It's a lot happening in between that, obviously I skipped a bunch, but you know, I'm just
0:41.0	super awesome.
0:42.0	That's a really good way to put it.
0:45.8	Sums it up.
0:46.8	Sums it up.
0:47.8	But in the mid-2000s, you know, in that era, you really exploded on the scene.
0:51.6	Yeah.
0:52.6	Everybody thinks it's overnight.
0:53.6	It's never overnight.
0:54.6	You're doing your never.
0:55.6	You're doing your never.
0:56.6	I know enough of the origin story, but it happened quick.
1:00.6	It happened.
1:01.6	It happened because it was a different kind of sound, and I'm always fascinated by people.
1:05.5	My whole business career has been doing shit that nobody else was doing, or more importantly,
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