T-Pain Rants About Signing Diapers, Faces And Boobs For Fans: “You’re Not Going To Keep This”
T-Pain joined GQ for a new interview where he opened up about the moment he knew he made it and the crazy expectations that his fans sometimes have.
The Tallahassee native was also asked about the early days of his career regarding touring, to which he recalled opening up for Chris Brown and not “knowing what the hell I was doing.” As his fanbase grew, he also recalled supporters beginning to ask him to permanently ink his name on outlandish things like diapers, drinks and more.
When asked about some of the craziest items that he’s signed, he named, “Diapers, people’s faces. Obviously boobs,” adding, “You gotta have boobs in there.”
“I don’t think I’ve signed anything more crazy than diapers,” he explained. “Diapers directly on the baby. Oh my god. All the time. People are always trying to be different, but it ends up being the same thing every time. It’s the craziest thing! You’re going to throw this away in like, two hours! You’re not going to keep this.”
T-Pain speaks on stage at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcast live on FOX at the Microsoft Theater on March 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
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Pain first realized that he was bigger than what he thought he was around the time he released “I’m N Luv (Wit a Stripper).”
“That’s when things started getting real bothersome. It wasn’t bothersome,” he admitted. “It was just, ‘What’s the big deal?’ I’m one of those people that’s like, ‘Why do you think I’m important?’” Humbly spoken, Pain made it known that although his face may be plastered on TV, his songs played on air, and more — he’s only “a person like you.”
“If we’re both in the same airport, on the same flight, there’s nothing special about what I’m doing. It’s not a big deal that you get to see me,” he said. “It’s become a thing that people know about me. They know how I feel about pictures and videos and stuff like that. I installed in everybody like, ‘chill the f**k out. We’re all doing this together.’”
T-Pain at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at the Dolby Theatre on April 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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“I’m only as important as you make me. I get it, and I appreciate it, but we’re all supposed to be chilling together. I just get to be on the other side of the camera more than most people,” he added.
As celebrities sign up for the fame and all that comes with it, it’s understandable that at times it can become overwhelming. However, Pain says that the “appreciation is there and the love is there” but, “trying to make me more important than anyone else that’s also waiting on their flight? That just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Give T-Pain’s interview with GQ a read in its entirety here.
