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T-Pain Has Stopped Taking Credit for Country Songs He's Written Due to Racism

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0:00 you're going to put someone on game on country like where would you tell them to start I don't like country I tell them go to Bluegrass I would honestly say go to a country bar or a country club and like not Country Club but like a a golf get out of here you don't pay your dues this ain't very [Music] country hey who here is a fan of t p oh dude Love T Pain man he's great big fan Joe you don't like T pay I was thinking about his music when you said that he was it was playing my do you like T pay I do enjoy he's a really good judge huh yeah I want him to talk to me with a B quarter what do you mean what do you mean what is this what is this judge thing because of World of Dance or no because on ABDC when we when we beat his team he was the judge ████ t p he's

0:52 the only guy that can seeing Tennessee whiskey as good as Chris Stapleton in my opinion I think every other cover is like doesn't even live up it's funny how when that came out everyone was like he can actually s he's so good he's very good do you know he's also equally as good as just being a songwriter in general he's written so much music that he evens he even writes country songs for other artists but he actually just stopped taking credit for them after facing a lot of racism is that fact oh that's sad why cuz they're like you a why it's like music I think it's actually probably from his oh like you you trying to be what like why you why you selling out why you why you writing for theatis or that's not hip hop or something you know what maybe he's riding for uh the KKK country music

1:43 that's why they're like stop it do you listen to KKK country music I haven't yet country there's a good spot I don't want to tune into that country with the K what think about that that's pretty crazy that there's so many writers that could write globally they could write for any genre anywhere but they they're limited by that so weird he's just an insane musician yeah he's just super talented dude all musicians could write anything really Mars came up first as a writer for many many years he did songs like for fari movement he did songs for Mano really wow yeah so tpay who is now 39 recently posted a video on Tik Tok where he reveals that he's ghostwritten a handful of tracks for country artists but admitted that he as a fan of the genre he's compelled to stop taking credit for the songs he's worked on due

2:33 to racism that he's experienced thing is he even mentioned in this Tik Tok video too that he says like good music is good music I don't give a ████ where it comes from or what style it is country music is where I got all my harmonies country and gospel music that's where all my harmonies come from but it's crazy just to think that he'll just grab the bag on it out cuz he's like don't even put my name in the credit because he's just going to get racist backlash for sometimes you get more money for that what do you mean you sometimes you get paid more for not saying give me the credit for it I just want more money sometimes you do get paid a little sometimes depends that's why you're $19 million imagine that would be so sick if that was me he's worth $19 million by the way do you have that wouldn't be impressive to him of all people do you have do you have oh I'm sorry to hear that sorry for the bad news just knows you're not a warlord yet do you have music credits not on anything like major

3:24 you took his name out of it cuz he got PA more wait what do you do professional oh I well I I'm a music producer like freelance but but it's very Niche it's not like uh three albums telling me hey he's like a DJ at the Raves he's like he's like on Molly he's like guys it's very Niche what I do Mom and Dad don't worry about it to yeah it's very Niche don't worry yeah it's not cool like this yeah T's co-written songs for Sierra fler Kanye West Lil Wayne and Snoop Dog you could probably make anything why we talking about t is it because he's facing racism what kind of racism was it anyway was it like the kind that we were saying where it's like his own crowd I think it's from his own kind that's what I think I think it's it's from uh country redneck dudes that

4:15 are loving this song and then they look at the album and then written by T you telling me a black man knows the white man Soul it's like finding out Ragu salsa is not what you thought yeah it's probably both it's got to be both cuz even isn't there right now where Beyonce Made A Country Song and like the country stations won't play it that's so she's from Texas right like she her song's about Texas isn't it I don't know but well dude country is just popping up everywhere I didn't realize how many people actually listen to country like and all the Ubers I've been taking in the past couple days I'm like everyone you know who loves country that tripped me out Hawaii oh yeah yeah hell of people in Hawaii Liv in the country you know whatting I'm starting to start I'm starting to to wne on to the other side of it I I think I used to grow up not liking country so much I was like I'm just going to it was a stereotypical thing tonight but I think it's also as a kid when you're you're super naive to it

5:05 you think country all country is like Twain country like super like you know barbecue stain on my white T-shirt you know what I mean like yeah that's not bad though derogatory what you just did I don't like country I like blue grass You Blue Grass is dope no you know what you should do look up on Spotify any song that you like and then write Bluegrass guarantee there's a Blass version and it hits Ignition remix on Bluegrass get out of here cuz it has some like soul to it you know like well it actually it has a lot of musical skill too banjo ████ it's not that it's a lot of it's it's very picky it's very picky when you see a guy shred on it though it's banjo shredding dude it makes you feel like you're a hillbilly Bootlegger running away from the cops it's fastpaced and

5:56 it's and it's empowering it's very look look up Bluegrass versions of songs that you like they're just that's the easiest way to get into it and understand like this s███'s dope I'm going check it out I'll listen to some blue grass yeah you got listen you got ████ listen to ████ Billy strings man that motherfucker's good you're going to put someone on game on country like where would you tell them to start I don't like country I tell them go to Bluegrass ████ that ████ I I would honestly say go to a country bar or a country club and like not Country Club but like a a golf get the hell out of here you don't pay your dues this ain't very country but like go to a place where people are actually like partying yeah it's fun time that's the best like like a line dance club dude I'll go line we should go line dancing bro hey no we shouldn't I want a line dance my mom does line dancing she got the to the don't break my heart my AK breaking heart I like

6:46 that song maybe that's why you remember how in like Elementary School PE you had to like do ████ line dancing all that ████ you have Trauma from is that way yeah it's also like godam I just don't think you understand but then maybe that's also what got me into Dan so I don't know I think a catchy song is just it'll transcend just like Lil Nas ex back in the day when he had Oldtown road that was like nobody was like I'm not listening that you know the horse in the back seat right yeah people just liked it cuz it was it's good enough right it just has to transcend good music is good music but doesn't mean it don't come with racism in America yeah but everything comes with some form of hate a little bit you're pissing everybody off yeah that's part of the marketing you can always spin it if you're good I still think America is way less racist than like any part of Asia already yeah I think out of the globe Asians are probably the most racist but we don't get any of them no I

7:37 feel like a lot of Asians aren't necessarily like racist discriminatory they're racist like objective like that that is a different race objectively racist it's just a fact this person sucks I I defit agree cuz at least here in America racism is a choice you make no emotion yeah we're supposed to be a Melting Pot everything's supposed to be inclusive anyway but then we to divide yeah where if you're like you go to China it's like everyone's Chinese you're a tall black guy it's like wow yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah or you're just that's true cuz racism over here is like uh in America is like oh I don't like you therefore I should kill you right and over there it's like you're weird therefore I should kill you wait which racis no but like I'm saying like when racism goes bad in the states it's like

8:27 it's like people there's violence attached to it cuz they're like oh you're dangerous I hate you I'm going to kill you right there's like racism attack like there's like you see these other people as a threat therefore you must attack them like it that's the bad side of how how bad it could get in the states or like you know there's like violence ATT extreme yeah it's extreme but I'm saying like that's when you think of it you think of major negative consequences to racism in America but in like Asia you see a old Chinese lady talk fing ████ yeah but I feel like they're like they've had Wars between the races like it's they're actively trying to genocide each other sometimes so many years and it's kind of panned out like hey this is our team this is our side now kind of like uh Chinese and weager oh yeah yeah bangad have better

9:18 hypocrisy right on covering up the intention for why we go to war cuz like Bangladesh is like a pretty new country I think and they and I asked um they I asked one of my relatives a long time ago I was like why you guys like split off from like India and Pakistan she's like she like oh we we we have our own language like we have to go to war to preserve our language and I was like oh okay no doubt you know whatever I thought it's cuz y all wanted to protect your Tigers maybe maybe over Tigers they're very different now yeah like the Bangladesh is like very uh Pro Western in every way it's like a huge us Ally and then but also Muslim and then India is totally different in terms of like the religious makeup and yeah I don't know um I still actually I will say um out of all countries I've ever been to I feel like Thailand is the least racist place I've ever seen seems like the least judgmental overall huh like they

10:10 just seem like everything kind of flies and it's okay like it just is what it is yeah yeah yeah yeah they also got a different view of objective racism though it's like positive right it's like oh there's that old white guy he's coming for the ████ yeah they don't see it as a negative yeah that's I I'd say thailander out of all the places I've been to and the people I've met like I think the Thai people the most sort of like pure and least judgmental like they're just like yeah they're just like open with everybody basically where do you rate a country like you know how Australia gets a lot of ████ because they're racist but then in a way of like oh we didn't know that was offensive you know how like is that true racism or is that just ignorance I don't know cuz you know they be they be messing up a lot while they'll do like a blackface thing and then and then to the rest of the world they're like we didn't know see I think from a lot of Aussies that I talk to there's blackface in everything they they talk about that's what I'm saying like uh uh they were talking about how

11:01 they called uh they used to call aboriginals black Fellers and I'd be and they' like yeah we can't like say that now and I was like what do you mean you can't say that now like you didn't know that wasn't like that cool to say yeah yeah yeah it's true black and then they have this thing called like they're like oh you ever have a Molly cookie or something like that like they yeah yeah Molly and then you look at it and it's I'm like what is that and it's a it's a cookie of someone in blackace and I was like yo what they well they said they discontinued their mainstream humor still has the ching chong classic jokes in it too like that's the kind of as long as us Chinese people are still laughing I think it's okay sometimes my friend in Australia Tony he like a couple of years ago had a show called The China Boy show yeah and it was literally just him and Chinese doing his characters you also have a guy on your phone called China

11:53 man but that's different that's different from like a white Australian guy playing a China guy and he's like welcome to China show that'll be funny [Music] too

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