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T-PAIN EXPLAINS BRITNEY’S SHAVED HEAD: Plus, singer doesn’t regret quitting jr. high.
*Singer T-Pain has produced two songs for the upcoming Britney Spears album and says he knows the real deal behind her sudden appearance at a hair salon in February determined to shave her head.
“Do you know why she was shaving her head? Because it was so important to other people,” Pain told the Associated Press. “She is like, ‘Listen. Don't touch my hair anymore. Stop touching my hair.’ She still had hair and all that (when I worked with her). People were like, ‘We've got to make your hair before you go outside. You can't leave.’ She went ... ‘Now I don't have hair. What you going to do?’”
T-Pain, born Faheem Najm, is currently enjoying chart success with “Buy U a Drank,” the first single from his new album “Epiphany” via Akon’s label, Konvict Music. Before his debut album “Rappa Ternt Sanga” was released in 2005 with two hit singles, including last year's "I'm In Luv (Wit a Stripper)," the former member of rap group Nappy Headz said he was en route to get a job application from McDonalds when he got the call-of-a-lifetime from Akon.
“I was giving up. I was literally in my dad's house renting my studio out, running it off of a generator outside. People couldn't even record,” recalls the Tallahassee native. “The people who lived behind us was calling the police because of the noise ordinance because they heard the generator all day and all night. I was eating mayonnaise out of the jar. It was bad. I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad. Then that one day I went to go get that application. I had been hanging out in front of there so much I knew the managers and all. I had no problem getting a job or anything. I went to go get that application and that's when Akon called me.”
T-Pain was also asked by AP about his decision to drop out of school in junior high, and whether his love for the vocal synthesizer may cause folks to think he can’t sing without it..
AP: You didn't finish junior high. Do you regret not finishing?
TP. No. I just knew half of the history class was bullcrap. Math class, that helped me out. Science, I wasn't going to be a scientist. I know how to burn stuff and cut frogs open.
AP: Do you want to break away from the vocal synthesizer to prove to people you can sing well without it?
TP. That is irrelevant that I have the audio tune on my voice. There are even songs on the first record without it. I have done so many shows live. You can't put an effect on your voice live so everyone knows I can sing without it. There are songs I have done with other people without it and there are songs on this album without it. I kept it going because that is my signature. When people hear that effect they say, "T-Pain must be on the song or that's somebody trying to be like T-Pain."
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