- That doesn't get a clap, T-Pain, that gets a slow clap.
(hands clapping)
That gets the janitor at the end of "Rudy" clap,
in the stands. (hands clapping)
(laughing)
Bro, imagine being--
- Thank you.
- Just imagine being T-Pain, where you just,
when you sing it sounds that good.
Dude, I would not even talk anymore.
I would just sing shit.
(laughing)
I would pick up the phone and sing hello.
It's crazy, man.
- You know what's crazy?
I got pitched a reality show.
Somebody was trying to make a reality show
that was kinda like,
it was a house full of people.
It was a house full of people,
but everybody had to sing everything they say.
You couldn't talk in the shit.
You couldn't talk in the house.
If you were in the house, you couldn't talk,
and everybody had to sing,
and whoever did the worst got kicked.
It was like a "Big Brother" thing, but everybody's singing,
and it was just one of the worst ideas
that I've ever heard in my fucking life.
(laughing)
I'm so glad it never went to network
and it never actually got properly pitched
'cause that was just the worst fucking thing of all time.
It was just, nobody wants to--
- If there's TV shows getting made like that,
I think we can give Tory his quarantine radio show.
- Absolutely!
(laughing)
Give Tory Lanez a goddamn show.
Jesus, MTV, what the fuck?
Let's go.
- All right, I'm pouring up a little bit here, T-Pain.
I didn't want you to be alone.
- Oh, what is that, Skull vodka?
- Dude, I wish it was Skull vodka.
I got bourbon in there right now.
I got this at the liquor store for $30 last night.
I was like absolutely.
- You making me look dumb and cheap right now
with this blue cup.
(laughing)
- Cheers, brother.
- You got a chalice and shit.
For sure, absolutely.
- I balanced it out.
Truth be told, I was like I don't want someone coming over
and thinking I'm a crazy person with a skull.
So I got one of these bad boys too.
I got everything on deck, bro.
- Can you actually play one of those guitars back there?
- A little bit.
I mean, nothing crazy.
This one's--
- Let me hear your best, the one you know for real.
- Like a solo song?
- Yeah, get the, get the grandpa guitar,
and play the one you know for real.
- Oh, I don't know if I know songs by heart, man.
Do you know--
- No, I'm just saying, the one you know.
The one if somebody like me saw them guitars back there
and was like, "Bro, you play guitar?
"Let's go."
The one you would go to right now, let's go.
- Bro, I ain't got, what are the chords to,
give me the chords to "Buy U A Drank."
- No, no, no, no.
I want the one you know.
The one that you got those guitars for.
- Well, I'm telling you, if I don't have chordified.net
in front of me, I am lost.
- (laughs) No, but you know.
Let's hear a E chord real quick.
Bust it, E major.
- I'll give you a little live on Twitch with T-Pain.
(guitar music)
Isn't that a little ditty?
Not bad, right?
- You know how to play guitar for real.
- I mean, it's--
- I'm trying to calling you out.
(laughing)
Free bird!
- (laughs) Exactly.
- Free bird. (laughs)
- Do you get busy on the guitar?
- I do not get busy on the guitar.
I know four chords on a guitar, to where I can get any song.
- Bro, you're putting me on blast on Twitch.
Look at you, bro.
- I got nothing, I got nothing.
Here's what I got.
Hold on, 'cause I got, I got the Artiphon,
the Instrument 1, and this is pretty much every instrument
that you want in one thing.
So, yeah, oh no, it's crazy.
- That straight up looks like something
you just invented, bro.
- No, I bought it from a pawn shop in the future.
(laughing)
But no, it's called the Artiphon Instrument 1,
and it's a MIDI instrument so you can play,
you can play the piano like a guitar.
These are the, these are the frets.
You can go crazy on this whole thing,
and it already has built in joints
where you can change everything, it's great.
That's the only guitar that I'm playing right now.
I wish they would put a spot
to where you could hang a strap on it,
but I mean, they do, but it's not my kinda strap, I guess.
- T-Pain, what is 3020 like?
(laughing)
That shit looks like it's from a century from now.
- Obama's president again.
They let people reelect.
(laughing)
They let people go again.
(laughing)
- Speaking of, we're on Twitch, we gotta talk gaming, dude.
You got your own gaming team now, which is, it's really,
what is this, how do you--
- I'm developing a gaming team.
- What'd you say?
- I'm developing a gaming team,
but it's Nappy Boy Gaming so far,
and right now it's kinda just me because I'm stubborn.
I know gamers have their stints,
to where they have a good gaming day and a bad gaming day.
I'm looking at the bad ones.
I wanna see all the bad ones.
If you wanna be a part of Nappy Boy Gaming,
post your good days and post your bad days too.
Don't just post your great days like this is when I got
50 kills on Call of Duty,
or this is when I sold the most turnips on Animal Crossing.
Don't just post your good days.
Post the bad ones too.
So, if you wanna be apart of it,
I need to see every dynamic of what you're doing.
But, yeah, Nappy Boy Gaming is a big thing
that I wanna really get into.
I'm actually getting into it,
but I wanna get the public involved in it too.
So, it's helping out with the immense boredom
of what the fuck is going on right now
and I am excited about it because it's actually getting me
in touch with other people outside of my damn house.
And I ain't been outside in two weeks,
and I'm starting to go crazy, okay?
- What's your game?
Gimme your top three,
what are you getting busy on right now?
- Well, it depends on what room I'm in.
If I'm in the retro room with my drifting simulator,
then I'm on Assetto Corsa.
If I'm in my VR room, then I'm doing Half-Life: Alyx,
and I'm doing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,
and sometimes, I go back to Black Ops 4.
Sometimes, I go back.
I kinda predate myself, but I do Job Simulator,
Island Simulator, Vacation Simulator.
I do Surgeon Simulator.
A lotta simulators, obviously, but it's a lot of VR.
Oh, Star Trek, Star Trek, the game they got on Oculus.
I got the stand alone Oculus thing that I do.
Bro, I play games, bro.
Oh, right now, I'm doing, oh my God,
Star Wars, the fallen Jedi.
Oh my God, what a fucking difficult game
when you got it on extreme
and you got the difficulty all the way up.
Oh my God, fuck that game, man.
It's just, it's frustrating.
I almost hit my wife with a goddamn controller
the other day, and I mean, obviously, I didn't mean to,
but I just threw the controller
and she was just in the way.
(laughing)
Oh my God, it's a frustrating fucking game, man.
Fuck that game, fuck that.
- Do you get busy with any sports games?
- I stopped playing, you know what?
I don't play sports games because I'm trash at sports
in real life.
So I don't bring that,
I don't try to bring that into fruition with anybody's.
Even when I'm doing Assetto Corsa,
I'm not great at drifting, but at least I tell people like,
"Yo, if you're drifting, I'm coming in this server
"to fuck up your drifting."
This is what I'm coming for.
I'm making sure that you don't get a full run on this track.
I'm for sure, I'm coming to fuck this up.
But, when you're playing 2K, anything 2K,
you just don't wanna get involved with those people
because they're very serious about their games,
and they're very serious about how they fucking play.
So I try not to interrupt those people with my trashness,
if that's a word.
Is that a word, trashness?
Trashery.
- It might be from the future too.
- Right, in the 2030, trashness is a word.
So, there it is.
(laughing)
- I wanna issue a public challenge, man.
I don't know what your schedule looks like,
but we got this new Twitch channel for MTV.
I say T-Pain comes back to MTV on Twitch
with a straight up gaming showdown.
- Oh, absolutely!
Oh, we can go, we can go.
- We gotta make that happen, man.
Call of Duty, whatever.
- As long as it's not a sports game.
(laughing)
Now, if you want me to do that, bro, oh my God.
I'm trying to get not so much closer,
I'm trying to figure out why my son likes what he likes,
and I started playing 2K20 because that's the new thing.
I mean, he doesn't give a one shit that my song
is actually on the game.
(laughing)
I got a song on the game
and he don't give one shit about that.
He's just like, "Yeah, cool.
"LeBron, absolutely, cool, let's do that."
And then, so, (laughs)
but I'm trying to like the shit that he likes,
and I'm like okay, let me see why he likes
playing this game so much.
No, I can't do it.
I'm trash, I don't know how to pass the ball.
I can't pass the ball.
I don't when, I don't know where the fucking,
the ball is under the goal.
When I'm under the goal, I have no idea where anything is.
Everything gets confusing right at the last second.
I don't know how to fucking do the tip off.
I don't know none of that shit.
So I'm like, "You know what, son?
"Fuck you, son, have that shit.
"You know what, that's one thing that you got.
"The rest of it, you living in a house,
"and you having clothes, and a phone,
"and a game, a PlayStation to play this shit on,
"that's me, bitch.
"Fuck you, son."
(laughing)
- Man, it gets intense over there, man.
- Yeah, fuck them kids.
(laughing)
He good as shit at that fucking game and I'm mad.
I'm pissed off.
I'll tell you what he ain't good at, paying bills.
He ain't good at that shit at all.
Fuck them kids.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh, bro.
Well, I'm looking forward to this.
We can, I think Call of Duty
would make for a great showdown, T-Pain.
- I'm ready, bro.
Okay, first of all, let me tell you something.
The first time I played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
was at a Mountain Dew,
a Mountain Dew tournament that we were doing.
Bro, I got the chance and I did it.
I did it and it's on video.
I headshotted Strop, bro.
- There's evidence?
- It breaks, it breaks me up to this day.
I headshotted Strop, bro.
(laughing)
The headshot king, I headshotted him.
I headshotted him, I got him.
I fucking got him.
I almost won.
I got into the semifinals
and it was a cat and fucking, God dammit,
I can't remember who it was.
But, all I know is I didn't win, but I got,
I was in the final match to win, and oh my God.
I'm so mad, man.
Vince Staples was there.
(laughing)
Vince Staples, I got him out the tournament immediately.
Fuck, bro, you're trash at Modern Warfare, bro.
Come get the smoke, let's go.
Let's actually go.
Oh Jesus, that was a weird day for me
because all the way up until four minutes
before the tournament started,
they told me I couldn't play the game
with mouse and keyboard.
And I'm like, "That's the only way to play this game.
"What the fuck are y'all talking about?
"I don't want aim assist."
You know what I'm saying?
I'm a real gamer, bro.
I need my flick.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not about to play this game with fucking controller.
I need mouse and keyboard.
And they was like,
"Oh, well we, all we got is PlayStations."
And I'm like, "Yeah, you can fucking get a mouse
"and get one of them PlayStations.
"Y'all made this game and y'all don't know this?
"This is weird."
And then, they brought me a mouse and keyboard
four minutes before the thing happened,
and then Hulk smash is what I did.
That's what I did, thank you.
(laughing)
- You can use whatever you want for the MTV livestream.
T-Pain's rules.
- Absolutely, I'm glad for that
because I was gonna talk shit about that if not.
(laughing)
- No, we're all good.
We're gonna kick it back to your music for the second half
of that sandwich you're making us.
But, you're doing something so cool with TikTok,
and TikTok gets a lot of attention
because it's for the dances and that's cool,
but it's so much more than that.
And you being a creative guy, you're doing,
I don't wanna be, are you calling it a challenge?
I don't wanna call it a challenge and cheapen it,
but you're finding new talent through this--
- It is a challenge.
It is a challenge because, I mean,
it's about getting up in the ranks,
and it's about making the best thing.
So, basically what I'm doing is called
the T-Pain Songwriter Challenge,
and I was making a beat on Twitch one night
and my homegirl, Ray Ray, she took one of those beats
and wrote a song to it, and then put it on TikTok
as reacting to it.
And man, I've never heard somebody write a song so dope
to a beat that I was just whatever about.
So, when she did that, I was like oh my God.
I can spread love to the people this way.
So, what I decided to do was I start making beats
on Twitch again, and when people post it on TikTok,
and they react to it, and they write a song to the beats
that I'm making, you get a chance,
if you write the best song, you can win the beat.
You can have the beat for free.
You don't have to pay for it.
You don't have to do nothing but write a dope ass song.
So, I send people the beat and my homeboy,
Fabian Marasciullo that mixes all my fucking music
and it makes it sound good,
he's lended out his hand to say, "Bro, I'll mix them songs.
"Whatever song that you pick, I'll mix those songs."
So, not only do you get a free beat from T-Pain,
but you get your song mixed and mastered for free.
So, it's one of those, it's one of those things
to where it's kind of a challenge,
but it's also just me reaching out
and make sure people are good in these times, man.
I wanted to spread this love,
especially with beats that I'm just in here
making with nothing.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't plan on using these beats for anything,
so why not make sure the people are good?
You know what I'm saying?
- Totally, well, and it's tough to be able to tap
into this perspective.
Imagine if you were me.
Dude, if I was growing up and I could do a song
over a Pharrell beat or a Kanye beat, it's like--
- Absolutely.
- That would be,
that's all my friends and I would do after school.
- And that's what you would do with beats
that were already used,
and beats that were already out and shit.
Now, I'm giving you guys beats
that I just have in my computer outta nowhere.
So, I think it's a better collaborative effect
if you're on a beat that's nobody's used,
nobody's done the shit.
And if I think, if I see you have the best song
written to it, I just give you the beat.
Bro, it's more touching, it's more intuitive,
it's more, it's more collaborative with artists,
an artist that you would think,
that you would never have contact with.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm reaching out to people, man.
I'm making sure people are good
during this fucking weird ass shit.
(laughing)
- All right, here's what I would like to do
if you're down for this, T-Pain,
is give us the second half of the songs.
And then I wanna open it up to the chat just a little bit
because we haven't been giving the chat a ton of love
'cause there's so much to talk about,
and just take fan questions.
Is that cool?
- Totally fine, I'm fucking ready for it.
- All right, rad. (laughs)
That dramatic pause, I was like maybe he's gonna say no.
All right, cool, so yeah, take it away dude,
and then we'll be back with some fan questions for T-Pain.