And you know what I like?
And this is probably no surprise, also.
I love rap.
And a lot of people don't like rap, but I love rap.
And I know I look innocent.
But beneath this, I am tatted up.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
All to there
I've got like short sleeves.
And I've got a tube top tat.
I've got leggings.
I've got something back here.
Man, they're everywhere.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
Tats.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
But I do love rap.
And one of the things that I love about rap now
is these microphones that rappers have
that they're using.
They make your voice change.
(AUTO-TUNE) I don't know if you've heard this thing.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
You'd holla at your girl.
Word to your mother.
Mother.
[DISTORTED VOCALIZING] Hello, word to your mother.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
That's hello to your mother.
I don't know why this thing has not
caught on more, because it is so much fun.
(AUTO-TUNE) Anything you say in this thing here goes.
Ha.
Paging Dr. Grossman.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
(AUTO-TUNE) To surgery, Dr. Grossman, to surgery.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Right?
(AUTO-TUNE) No parking in the red zone.
Red zone's for loading and unloading only.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
So much fun.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
And you know what?
I recommend getting-- if you can find something like this,
it makes things that are difficult to say much easier.
(AUTO-TUNE) Honey, I'm leaving you for my secretary.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
(AUTO-TUNE) I'm pregnant.
It's not yours.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
(AUTO-TUNE) Mom, Dad, Kathy's not my roommate.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Anyway, so what happened over the last few years,
this microphone has changed hip-hop music considerably.
And you might not know this, but it actually was made popular
by a rapper named T-Pain.
T-Pain is not his real name, obviously.
It's Mr. T-Pain, and Mr. T-Pain is here.
I think this guy deserves some credit.
Mr. T-Pain, come on out.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
They love you.
T-Pain.
I suggested to T-Pain backstage that we could sing--
(AUTO-TUNE) you have to really talk
in a certain kind of way to do this.
Because if you just talk, it doesn't do it.
What makes it do this?
(AUTO-TUNE) I pretty much think it's my voice.
(AUTO-TUNE) And so anything you say
turns into a song.
(AUTO-TUNE) Maybe just a little bit.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
(AUTO-TUNE) And so we can
make a song, just you and me.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
(AUTO-TUNE) Well, it's the Ellen Show.
You better know.
No homie, there is no other better show.
So let me know.
Oh, let it go.
And you are all chilling at the Ellen Show.
Hey, hey, hey.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
See?
I was saying that this would be so much--
don't you want this?
Don't you want to be able to do this?
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Well, this entrepreneur, this smart businessman here,
came up with a very cool app if you're
lucky enough to have an iPhone, which I hope you do.
Tell him what you're doing for the people.
This is what I'm doing for the people.
I got everybody a free download of my new auto-tune
application, "I Am T-Pain."
So get ready for one of these.
And you talk like this.
And every one of these has a code on the back ready to go.
(AUTO-TUNE) And you talk like this into your iPhone,
and then you sound like that automatically.
What's even better.
Ellen, I actually got you an iPhone preloaded with the "I Am
T-Pain" auto-tune application.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Oh, thank you so much.
How about it?
Yeah!
Then I'm going to say to you right now, (DISTORTED
SINGING) T-Pain, let's dance.
[MUSIC PLAYING]