Updated approved title! T.I. & T-Pain Talk Burnout, Fame, Alcoholism and Why Success Almost Broke Him

Um, but yeah, man, uh, you, you have mastered the art of Auto-Tune.

Auto-Tune.Mastering is tough.

Yeah, I thought, I mean-

[laughs]

... you probably one of the toughest motherfuckers I know to do it.

Uh, yeah.

Yeah.

I, I-

You know, you had to go to Roger Troutman or, or, or, um, or get the Teddy Riley or somebody-

Yeah

... you know?

Yeah.

No, well, that was, you know, that's, that's, that's talk box and vocoder so you had to actually know how to play and sing at the same time.

Right.

So mine was like the lazy version of that.

Mm.

But I think I...

I think I've, I think I just understood it more than everybody else because I actually looked into the science of it.

I actually was looking for it, and n- not only that, but when I used it, I was the artist and the engineer-

Mm

...

so I knew what had to happen in order to make it sound like it did sound.

So I think I had a lot more insight instead of just, "Hey, I got...

I wrote some, I wrote some lyrics down.

Throw Auto-Tune on it and see if it sound good."