T-Pain

Fun Fact: At the age of ten, T-Pain reworked his bedroom into a small studio with a keyboard, beat machine and four-track recorder, and began composing music.

Claim to Fame: In 2002, he founded his own label, Hard & B, and soon caught the spotlight as a solo artist when his song "I'm Fucked Up", a reworked version of Akon's "Locked Up", gained popularity in the region. Akon noticed the song and signed T-Pain to his newly formed Konvict Music record label.

Faheem Rasheed Najm At the age of ten, Najm reworked his bedroom into a small studio with a keyboard, beat machine and four-track recorder, and began composing music. He graduated from James S. Rickards High School. His stage name is short for "Tallahassee Pain" and was chosen because of the hardships he felt while living there. He is a Muslim. The first single is "I'm Sprung". The second single is "I'm N Luv ", featuring Mike Jones. The album debuted at #33 on the Billboard 200, eventually reaching gold.

Hot 97 Summer Jam concert.
In 2007, his second album Epiphany came out, with the club-oriented singles "Buy U a Drank " featuring Yung Joc and "Bartender" featuring Akon. Both singles were in the Top 5. Epiphany debuted at the top spot of the US Billboard 200 chart, and has sold about 1,000,000 units as of May 2008. being the first number-one album of his career. During that time, he appeared on the singles "I'm a Flirt" remix by R. Kelly with T.I., "Outta My System" by Bow Wow, "Baby Don't Go" by Fabolous, "I'm So Hood" by DJ Khaled with many other rappers, "Shawty" by Plies, "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown, "Low" by Flo Rida, and "Good Life" by Kanye West. Between the weeks of 24 November 2007 and 8 December 2007, T-Pain was featured in 4 top ten singles of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart

"Good Life" won the BET Award for the Best Collaboration and was nominated in several other categories.

His third album Thr33 Ringz was released on November 11, 2008. "Can't Believe It", featuring Lil Wayne, was the first single; the video premiered on BET on August 26. "Chopped & Skrewed", featuring Ludacris, is the second single in this album. "Freeze", featuring Chris Brown, was confirmed to be the third single. Guest appearances on Thr33 Ringz include T.I., Lil Wayne, Ludacris, DJ Khaled, Ciara, Chris Brown, Kanye West and many more. Pr33 Ringz was the introduction mixtape for the album.
T-Pain at General Motors Place concert in Vancouver in January 2009.
In 2008, T-Pain continued to appear on numerous charting rap singles, such as "She Got It" by 2 Pistols, "Go Girl" by Ciara, "The Boss" by Rick Ross, "Cash Flow" by Ace Hood, "Shawty Get Loose" by Lil Mama, "One More Drink" by Ludacris, and "Go Hard" by DJ Khaled with Kanye West. T-Pain and Ludacris collaborated to perform "Chopped & Skrewed" and "One More Drink" on American late-night television programs Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC November 14, 2008 and on NBC's Saturday Night Live on November 22, 2008. T-Pain appeared again on SNL on February 7, 2009 in the SNL Digital Short, "I'm on a Boat", along with castmember Andy Samberg and SNL writer/Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer.

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