T-Pain opening Wisconsin music faculty

T-Pain has many iconic tracks to his identify, however arguably, his 2008 collaboration with Lil Wayne, ‘Can’t Consider It’ is his most interesting, together with his trademark auto-tune vocals and lyrics piercing popular culture extra deeply than he has ever executed elsewhere.

Chatting with MTV Information, T-Pain as soon as defined the motivations behind the hit: “[The song] is basically a perspective of not settling for what you doing. You can be doing better. Even if you think you’re at the peak of your career, you’re at the top, it’s something else you can be doing. Don’t settle into what you been pretty much forced into doing.”

Nevertheless, aside from the massive refrain, essentially the most well-known a part of the observe is the second T-Pain – a native of Tallahassee, Florida – spits the rhyme: “Put you in the mansion, somewhere in Wiscansin (Wisconsin).” Whereas the track sees T-Pain point out locations from throughout the globe, this line mentioning “Wiscansin” turned legendary and has related the rapper with the midwestern state ever since. It’s since been a match made in heaven.

Famously, the connection between T-Pain and Wisconsin has been a loving one. In 2022, the ‘Bartender’ musician was formally recognised by the state throughout his Highway To Wiscansin tour. Giving the state an actual deal with, as an alternative of performing solo when stopping there, he organised the Wiscansin Fest, which noticed the likes of Lil Jon, Juvenile, Yung Bleu, Okay Camp, O.T. Genasis and extra take to the stage.

When it was lastly T-Pain’s time to carry out, the state consultant, Kalan Haywood, stunned him from the state workplace, recognising June eleventh as T-Pain Day. When the rapper shared clips on social media, he might be seen tearing up as he obtained his plaque, thanking everybody for the assist. 

In a brand new interview with Billboard, T-Pain defined as soon as once more that he’s planning to open a music faculty in Wisconsin to maintain giving again to the state. 

“I just really felt like I was Andre 3000 when I was recording that song,” he mentioned. “That was my spirit animal that I had on me while I was recording that song.”

He continued: “Again, that fostered the era of the ‘mansion in Wiscansin’ infamous rhyme. And since then, we’ve been really able to incorporate that into everything. […] All my tours that I go on now are Wisconsin based. We have a ‘Wiscansin University.’ All the merch is ‘Wiscansin’ based. We’re actually starting a school in Wisconsin. It’s a music school.”