Pharrell Williams reached out to T-Pain with a task that he believes only the Tallahassee-born singer can handle — make music that he believes R&B is missing.
During a recent livestream, T-Pain answered the phone from the legendary Virginia musician, and Pharrell immediately gave him a mission.
“What the fuck are you doing, man?” Pharrell asked. “There’s no one in your way. No one can make R&B that’s missing like you.”
Pharrell continued, telling T-Pain that he made making special R&B music “look easy.” “I feel like you’re the bridge to bringing back R&B to what I feel like it means to black people,” Pharrell continued. “You are the bridge. Ain’t nobody like you, bro. And you got the personality of the youth, where the youth would gravitate towards you.”
T-Pain listened to his ask and responded with, “True that. I fuck with that. Let me put my right brain on it, and I’ll reconvene, if you will.”
Check out a video of the moment below.
In other T-Pain news, the singer expressed his feelings about Jay-Z attacking auto-tune on “D.O.A.” during an appearance on the expediTIously podcast in June.
T-Pain brought up Hov’s critique of the technology by saying it “sucked.”
“I'm a Jay-Z fan still to this day,” T-Pain said. “One of my favorite songs from him was ‘Can't Knock the Hustle.’ And getting my hustle knocked wasn't on my bingo card.”
“That was another way of [saying] ‘Hey, man, y'all let me do what I'm doing. I'm still over here,’” T-Pain added. “It wasn't a call to kill T-Pain. It was like ‘Hey, guys. I'm still me now. I'm still Jay-Z. Y'all don't get too caught up with that shit over there. Ain't going to last too long.’”
