T-Pain Cites Racism For Choosing Not To Receive Credit For County Placements

T-Pain has revealed that his experience working as a songwriter for country recording artists has been both gratifying and traumatizing. The Tallahassee-bred artist recently shared an earnest video to his Instagram page that detailed his love for music genres other than Hip-Hop.

”Good music is good music I don’t care where it comes from, IDGAF where it comes from or what style it comes in,” T-Pain started off in the video. “All the people I know, like, feel like it’s not cool to listen to other genres of music. Country music is where I get all of my harmonies from. Country and gospel music that’s where all of my harmonies come from.”

However, T-Pain’s remarks took a rather bleak turn, though, when he began talking about the backlash he received when being credited on country music releases.

“I done wrote a lot of country sounds and I’ve stopped taking credit for it. As cool as it is to see your name in those credits and stuff like that, the racism that comes after that is just like…I’ll just take the check. Don’t put me on that s###,” he said.

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T-Pain recently made waves earlier this month after covers he did of country singer Chris Stapleton’s fan favorite hit “Tennessee Whiskey” and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” went viral upon the release of his new live performance album. His rendition of the song was so moving, it earned him props from Osbourne himself.