T-PAIN T-POLL

I be like, «¿Como si llama, lil mama? Mi llamo Pain.»

how I'd rank these from favorite to least favorite:

"I'm a Flirt (remix)" (R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain)
"Church"
"Pop, Lock And Drop It (remix)" (Huey feat. Bow Wow & T-Pain)
"Good Life" (Kanye West feat. T-Pain)
"Backseat Action" f/ Shawnna
"Outta My System" (Bow Wow feat. T-Pain)
"2 Step (remix)" (Unk feat. T-Pain & Jim Jones, E-40)
"Same Girl (Remix)" (R. Kelly feat. T-Pain)
"Kiss Kiss" (Chris Brown feat. T-Pain)
"Know What I'm Doin'" (Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. T-Pain & Rick Ross)
"I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" featuring Mike Jones
"Creep Fast" (Twista feat. T-Pain)
"I'm Sprung"
"Bartender" featuring Akon
"I'm So Hood" (DJ Khaled feat. T-Pain, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, & Plies)
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" featuring Yung Joc
"U and Dat" (E-40 feat. T-Pain & Kandi Girl)
"Baby Don't Go" (Fabolous feat. T-Pain)
"Cyclone" (Baby Bash feat. T-Pain)
"Shawty" (Plies feat. T-Pain)

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"I'm a Flirt (remix)" (R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain)
"I'm Sprung"
"Bartender" featuring Akon
"Good Life" (Kanye West feat. T-Pain)
"U and Dat" (E-40 feat. T-Pain & Kandi Girl)
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" featuring Yung Joc
"Know What I'm Doin'" (Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. T-Pain & Rick Ross)
"2 Step (remix)" (Unk feat. T-Pain & Jim Jones, E-40)
"Baby Don't Go" (Fabolous feat. T-Pain)
"I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" featuring Mike Jones
"Cyclone" (Baby Bash feat. T-Pain)
"Outta My System" (Bow Wow feat. T-Pain)
"Kiss Kiss" (Chris Brown feat. T-Pain)
"Pop, Lock And Drop It (remix)" (Huey feat. Bow Wow & T-Pain)
"Shawty" (Plies feat. T-Pain)

"I'm a Flirt" should landslide out this motherfucker.

my god I need to catch up on my feat. T-Pain, still haven't gotten around to hearing Chris Brown, Baby Bash or anything since those.

I'm swinging between "I'm A Flirt" and "Bartender."

"Church" is good too, is it really a single?

I kinda don't want to vote for "Flirt" because T-Pain isn't the best or only good thing about it (R.'s last verse is my favorite). it would get my vote in a R. 2007 poll (which I was planning on doing at the end of the year), though. will probably go with "Church" or "Backseat Action" for this.

xpost - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lntTBRhuOwM

hadn't seen that!

still prolly gonna go with "Bartender"

Wait, that's "Church"? I heard the album but couldn't really remember which song "Church" was. Yeah, that is pretty damn great.

http://www.google.com/search?q=tpain+calm+the+fuck+down

Definitely "I'm A Flirt" for me.

me: how do you feel about t-pain
a bro: what's that
me: lol

ok that "Calm The Fuck Down" is pretty great. if I'd included non-hits/singles in this poll I'd definitely consider that or "Sounds Bad."

yeah, i agree, at first i just listened to it for the LOLs but it's a really great tune

"u and dat" is the sleeper BEST SONG EVER of this poll.

best t-pain verse of the year is the robotron "2 step" rmx. that said i'm voting for "shawty," which nowadays i feel is basically along the lines of miccio shilling for limp bizkit.

in all seriousness tho, plies thuggery (goonery?) makes the awesome and genuinely sweet t-pain chorus all the more awesomer and sweeter.

u and dat is garbage

i vote 'creep fast' by far

fuck i actually would have voted "know what i'm doin'". best song on like father, like son. totally forgot t-pain was on that shit.

"Know What I'm Doin'" (Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. T-Pain & Rick Ross)
"Shawty" (Plies feat. T-Pain)
"I'm a Flirt (remix)" (R. Kelly feat. T.I. & T-Pain)
"Good Life" (Kanye West feat. T-Pain)
"Backseat Action" f/ Shawnna
"U and Dat" (E-40 feat. T-Pain & Kandi Girl)
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" featuring Yung Joc
"2 Step (remix)" (Unk feat. T-Pain & Jim Jones, E-40)
"Bartender" featuring Akon
"I'm Sprung"
"Pop, Lock And Drop It (remix)" (Huey feat. Bow Wow & T-Pain)
"Baby Don't Go" (Fabolous feat. T-Pain)
"Creep Fast" (Twista feat. T-Pain)
"I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" featuring Mike Jones
"Church"
"Outta My System" (Bow Wow feat. T-Pain)
"I'm So Hood" (DJ Khaled feat. T-Pain, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, & Plies)
"Kiss Kiss" (Chris Brown feat. T-Pain)
"Same Girl (Remix)" (R. Kelly feat. T-Pain)
"Cyclone" (Baby Bash feat. T-Pain)

Limp Bizkit > "Shawty"

i voted 'flirt' bcz come on it's 'flirt' and it's sunshiney ebullient brilliance of a high order

that said the 'pop lock and drop it' rmx is the only t-pain i've heard where he takes the vocoder thing into polyphonic manic-robot territory, which is just awesome too

thank u for this poll al

The Chris Brown song is fucking awesome; 'Kiss Kiss' is gonna be racing for top five of the year for me.

T-Pain is high up on my list of fave artists at the moment.

as he shows up on more and more of my favorite songs of the year i wonder if i can accurately be said to hate t-pain anymore

REPENT!

tpain has endeared himself to me but that performance on the hip hop awards was AWFUL

"I'm Sprung"
"Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" featuring Yung Joc
"Creep Fast" (Twista feat. T-Pain)
j-shin ft t-pain - sent her an email
"2 Step (remix)" (Unk feat. T-Pain & Jim Jones, E-40)
"I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" featuring Mike Jones
"Pop, Lock And Drop It (remix)" (Huey feat. Bow Wow & T-Pain)
"Bartender" featuring Akon
"Shawty" (Plies feat. T-Pain)
thrill da playa ft t-pain & doughboy- yo chevy rmx

i imagine how i feel towards t-pain in 2007 is similar to how some feel about the modern cult of lil wayne. probly a little harsh of me though. also, i wonder if vocoderless 'church' coming out as a single + the absent britney work isn't the sign of a third will.i.am-ish stage of his career.

really not tryna make a thing of being internet shallow here but surely i can't be the only one allergic to even thinking about those kells & kanye passé-assed zero-replay "events"

it's definitely gonna be interesting to see what his next stage is (though I kinda want him to do a Sanga Ternt Rappa album). he could either disappear like Lil Jon or turn his guest spot ubiquity into people really caring about his own records, which for the most part they don't seem to yet. it's hard for me to compare his situation to Wayne's though, since they're both everywhere but with Wayne it's all based on (somewhat over-inflated) respect for his talent while T-Pain is still considered mostly a guilty pleasure or someone that people enjoy in spite of themselves, like even among your average rap/R&B radio listeners. aside from Kanye or occasional nutjobs like me hesitantly calling him a genius, most people just focus on the fact that he can't sing and that his autotuning shit is a gimmick, both of which are pretty much true, and yet...

I'm not even going to address the fact that (I think) you used "zero-replay" to describe "I'm A Flirt," though. But "Good Life" definitely loses more of its appeal almost every time I hear it.

Search: "Danceflo"

can someone kill cyclone for me

Amazingly I hadn't even heard it before looking it up on YouTube to figure out where it ranks on the list I posted on this thread. Once a song I'm sure I won't like hits the top 10 without my having heard it even once, I start to make a game out of how long I can go avoiding it (same thing happened with the Timbaland/OneRepublic song, which I unfortunately heard the other day). Is "Cyclone" getting heavy airplay on R&B station anywhere else?

Here. And the top 40 station, too. It's bad, but not, say, "Shawty" bad. T-Pain's untranscribable vocal sound effect at the end crack me up, but mostly this is just a half-assed "U & Dat" rehash.

I voted for "Kiss Kiss" only because I spent literally hours this morning trying to figure out what it is. I heard it on the radio Friday morning but came in right at T-Pain's rap. So I was searching for something that was way less sing-songy than Chris Brown. If "Kiss Kiss" were all T-Pain hyperventilating and "ooh-wee"ing unnaturally, I'd top ten it.

Btw, if you're ever looking for the title of a song you heard on the radio, check out yes.com.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i fucking hate cyclone with every fiber of my being

Cyclone's pretty horrible, but T-Pain's verse is somewhat redemptive.

i fucking hate cyclone with every fiber of my being

-- max, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:13 (5 hours ago) Link

Dude, it's not worth the energy.

if there's anything worse than that hackneyed synth line on "snap yo fingers" it's a fucking baby bash song jacking that same synth line wholesale a year or so later.

tru enough about the critical guilty pleasure thing, tho my point was more about a slight frustration at his comedy mugging for the limelight where once he just like, sang songs. and i know that's gonna sound pretty ridiculous to most people for whom 'stripper' and 'sprung' were equally as gimmicky as the stuff he does now (cos they are!) (tho sprung is a beautiful song) (but then so is 'buy u a drank') but in terms of comparing the albums there was just a realer rnb fidelity going on in the first that's gone missing a little in epiphany. but i'm not sure why i'm even bothering to press this point cos i doubt very much that anyone who stuck rapper ternt sanga on now would find it anything but a bit boring compared to the t-pain they're used to - the narrative probly doesnt work backwards.

(haha i wonder if there are grumpy og black eyed peas fans who are still saying the same about their fake roots incarnation)

(er 'joints & jam' IS obv the best bep single tho)

i'm probably just punishing 'flirt' for the album and trapped in the closets yeah, but once you lose patience with kells the good stuff loses charm same as the bad i find. the kanye album i havent had the strength to bother with again after its two weeks were up. quite dispiriting really.

mariah says t-pain's on her comeback single btw. ho hum!

Yeah I think you're kind of going out on a limb with the idea that T-Pain was ever real plain ol' R&B and not from the start a slumming rapper who could kinda carry a tune and used technology to help get him the rest of the way there. The distance from "Sprung" to what he's doing now is so much more minute than, say, the distance from early R. argument-songs to "Trapped." I should go back to that first album and see what I like, though, Epiphany's at its best for me in the more formal R&B moments, "Church" aside. And let's please not start with the calling the follow-up to one of the biggest albums of Mariah's career a "comeback."

No argument re: "Joints & Jam," though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

if there's anything worse than that hackneyed synth line on "snap yo fingers" it's a fucking baby bash song jacking that same synth line wholesale a year or so later.

-- J0rdan S., Monday, 29 October 2007 06:26 (17 hours ago) Link

Ha, I absolutely fucking love "Snap Yo Fingas", though (and mildly dislike "Cyclone".) For some reason I hadn't thought to put those two songs together. Again, it just stuck in my mind as a lesser "U & Dat".

"Church" could have used a couple votes, but otherwise, that looks about right.

there are moments when audiences can depart from the packaging that has strangled the genre and discover an affecting innocence, in spite of similes comparing asses to meteorological phenomena. (For this reason, I’ve been craving a cover of “Cyclone” from The Pipettes.)

the otherwise whtvr cyclone remix made me fully appreciate t-pain's overlooked contribution to society on the original.

ERRW-rwwrwr-rwrwr-rwrwr-ruhr-rww-rww-rww-RURR.

(gorilla zoe's dr hibbert impression also good)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/49953201237a67/

this got blanked on rolling rnb but i still like it. heard another t-pain outside production since (think it was bow wow, or omarion, or bow wow & omarion) and he used the same "great greatness" intro, UGH GET RID OF IT TP

isn't T-Pain's sound effect on "Cyclone" just the exact same thing R. did on the "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)" remix?

I'm driving across country this week and I went through KC, Columbia MO and STL today, and listened to R&B stations all day (like seven hours today). It was like T-Pain day (probably every day, I don't usually listen to the radio this much) but I was amazed: I heard T-Pain at least 8 times : heard "Kiss Kiss" three times, "Good Life" twice, and "Shawty", "I'm So Hood" and "Cyclone" each once.

fun fact: when "Beautiful Girls" came on my wife asked "does he have a speech impediment?" (n.b. she only listens to classical so listening to r&b with her is like culture shock)

This poll is missing "Low"

this poll was done before "low", which is by all means an awful song.

My wife has a pair of the boots with the furrrr and now I can't stop singing it to herrrr

this poll was done before "low", which is by all means an awful song.

DISAGREE

nb I know that T-Pain isn't on "Beautiful Girls" (just rereading my note made it sound like I'm more of an idiot than I am, shocking though that may be)

yeah this poll was kinda pre-"Low" but I would totally say that song is better than half the ones that were in the poll.

Want to change my vote to "I'm So Hood"

i'm so hood is fucking awesome

"u and dat" is the sleeper BEST SONG EVER of this poll.

-- J0rdan S., Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:59 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^

My wife has a pair of the boots with the furrrr and now I can't stop singing it to herrrr

-- Hurting 2, Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:11 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

lol

The "I'm So Hood" remix is partly so much better than the original because it uses a lot less of the T-Pain part, beat is killer but I don't really like what he does on it.

Probably need to run a new version of this poll.

yeah i think we could stand to re-run an up-to-date version of this once every 6 weeks

though to be fair most of the most recent stuff is sub-Good Life/Bartender/Buy U A Drank, to say nothing of Flirt.

# 2008: "Shawty Get Loose" (Lil Mama featuring Chris Brown & T-Pain)
# 2008: "She Got It" (2 Pistols featuring T-Pain & Tay Dizm)
# 2008: "The Boss" (Rick Ross featuring T-Pain)
# 2008: "Cash Flow" (Ace Gutta featuring Rick Ross & T-Pain)

these are all pretty good

before alex in baltimore jumps on that i listen to "the boss" and "shawty get loose" actively and "she got it" when it comes on the radio. "cash flow" is aight but im not mad at it or anything

I know you guys hate it, but "Get Low".

I'm sick of reading this as TAINT POLL, over and over. Someone just make a real taint poll, for pete's sake.

I figured the Rolling T-Pain Thread 2008 would be enough to cover the new stuff and maybe I'd do a poll at the end of the year. But if you guys think there should be a poll now, should it be for all the stuff in this poll + newer stuff, or just the newer stuff as its own poll? Because I can't honestly picture much post-"Low" stuff deserving votes over the early hitz.

no wait till end of the year

Is it just me, or did 2 Pistols name himself that so he could be right next to 2pac alphabetically?

http://i27.tinypic.com/2w3wfhh.jpg
1. T-Pain (Ft. Rick Ross) - The Boss 2:01
2. T-Pain - I'm So Hood Freestyle 0:58
3. T-Pain (Ft. Flo-Rida) - Low 1:45
4. T-Pain (Ft. Chris Brown) - Shawty Get Loose 1:16
5. T-Pain (Ft. Charlie Wilson) - Supa Sexy 2:14
6. T-Pain (Ft. Sammie Lloyd) - Feelin It 1:10
7. T-Pain (Ft. DJ Khaled Akon R. Kelly - We Takin Over 2:24
8. T-Pain (Ft. Tampa Tony) - Ridin Out 1:14
9. T-Pain (Ft. Akon) - Bartender 1:28
10. T-Pain (Ft. Young Whine) - So Fresh 1:21
11. T-Pain (Ft. Fabolous) - Baby Don't GO 1:38
12. T-Pain (Ft. Snook) - Untouchable 1:47
13. T-Pain (Ft. Kanye West) - Good Life 2:17
14. T-Pain (Ft. Yung Joc) - Buy U A Drank 2:11
15. T-Pain (Ft. Dolla Akon) - Who The F Is That 2:48
16. T-Pain (Ft. Chris Brown) - Greatness 1:38
17. T-Pain (Ft. Birmingham J) - Freaky Shit 1:40
18. T-Pain (Ft. Sean P) - U Ain't Know 2:00
19. T-Pain (Ft. Juvenile) - Everything 1:47
20. T-Pain (Ft. Brisco) - Come And Get Us 1:47
21. T-Pain (Ft. Baby Lil Wayne) - Know What I'm Doin 2:54
22. T-Pain (Ft. Twista) - Creep Fast 1:16
23. T-Pain (Ft. The Game) - On Bail 1:24
24. T-Pain (Ft. Huey) - Pop Lock And Drop It 2:41
25. T-Pain (Ft. Ak) - Drop It Down Low 1:28
26. T-Pain (Ft. Baby Bash) - Cyclone 1:50
27. T-Pain (Ft. Foxx) - Bounce 1:25
28. T-Pain (Ft. Plies) - Shawty 2:03
29. T-Pain (Ft. Cupid) - The Let Out 2:05
30. T-Pain (Ft. Chris Brown) - Kiss Kiss 2:11
31. T-Pain (Ft. R. Kelly T.I.) - I'm A Flirt 3:36
32. T-Pain (Ft. R. Kelly) - Same Girl 2:44
33. T-Pain (Ft. 2 Pistol) - She Got It 1:53
34. T-Pain (Ft. Ray Lavender) - Get It 2:05
35. T-Pain (Ft. Nivea) - Ask For It 2:30
36. T-Pain (Ft. Ruslana) - Moon Of Dreams 1:55
37. T-Pain (Ft. Styles P) - So High 3:58

I'm so pissed he canceled the Nokia show; I was looking forward to an evening with mr. pain.

i hate kiss kiss a lot

it sounds like he hit GOTHIC SYNTH 2A and BASSLINE 3B and sent it off the assembly

that song is awesome!!!

now that shit sounds like timbaland

chorus is a blast to yell

YOU KNOW MY BANK ROLL
GOT A LOT OF ZEROS
TEDDY PAIN
THE TALLAHASSEE HERO

I think the bridge of "The Boss" may singlehandedly turn me against T-Pain :(

alex in baltimore straight hatin
and he aint even rich
jordan s on the sideline
like aint that a bitch

it's like a 4 line bridge

to think that you made it through "shawty", "baby don't go", "cyclone" and "low" only to get derailed by a bridge in a rick ross song

"Let me ask you a question: if the T-Pain songs you listened to brought you to this, of what use was the listening?"

a lot of the crappy songs he's on he at least has an elegantly simple hook, the "boss boss b-boss" sputtering is just the horrible cherry on top of what was kind of an awkward track to begin with.

THREAD REVIVE

Songs been around for a while, but "Beam Me Up" with Tay Dizm and our fave Ricky Ross just released a video recently, so I hope to God I hear this blasting out of every car if this makes it on the radio. I'm loving this song so much

To agree with Alex above (albeit three months late): The first 20 seconds of that song are glorious, then the way the beats switch up throughout the song and the bridge... way awkward. I also never expected Rick ROss to use the phrase "thus far" in a chorus, ever.

"Church" 0

wha

miss u, pain

"Church" flopped as a single and i didn't know anybody besides me even liked it!

i think i just heard "i'm sprung" for the first time and uhh

how did you miss that song, you aren't THAT young

i have no idea, i must have heard it at some point but that was before i started to really get into r&b so it probably passed me by

tbf it did kind of quickly recede from the spotlight for a breakthrough hit by a ubiquitous artist, i haven't heard it in the wild in years, certainly not like "buy u a drank" or w/e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc