Celebrity Central: T-Pain

Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1985), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the group Nappy Headz. In 2005, he became a singer and released his debut album Rappa Ternt Sanga which had singles like “Striper” on it. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain has extensively used the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect, which has laid him critics from some artists and producers.

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1985), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor. He began his career as a rapper in the group Nappy Headz.

In 2005, he became a singer and released his debut album Rappa Ternt Sanga which had singles like "Striper” on it. Throughout his career as a singer, T-Pain has extensively used the Auto-Tune pitch correction effect, which has laid him critics from some artists and producers.

Since the release of his debut album, T-Pain has produced numerous hits of his own and for other rappers and R&B singers. In 2008, he won a Grammy with rapper Kanye West for the single "Good Life”. In 2010, he won another Grammy with Jamie Foxx for the single "Blame It”. T-Pain is also the founder of the record label Nappy Boy Entertainment, established in 2005.

He features R&B icon, Chris Brown, in his latest single, "Best Love Song”; lyrics below:

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