T-Pain almost ended up working at McDonald’s

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AP: What do you think will surprise people most about this album?

T-Pain: Everybody thinks the album is going to be a bunch of “I’m N Luv (Wit A Strippers).” I am hitting on way more stuff than that. I’ve got a song called “Suicide” that’s talking about the awareness of AIDS and drug addiction. A lot of people don’t think I got songs like that. They see my image and they go, “He’s hood. He is going to talk about some hood stuff or a lot of sex on his album.” I hit on a lot of different subjects.

AP: You produced two songs for Britney Spears. What is your impression of her?

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T-Pain: That was the most beautiful thing in the world. Do you know why she was shaving her head? Because it was so important to other people. She is like, “Listen. Don’t touch my hair anymore. Stop touching my hair.” She still had hair and all that (when I worked with her). People were like, “We’ve got to make your hair before you go outside. You can’t leave.” She went ... “Now I don’t have hair. What you going to do?” You can’t hate R. Kelly. You can’t hate Britney Spears because you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she’s still on TV. Every time I say something about her, “People are like, ‘For real, Britney Spears. How was that?” You can’t get rid of these people no matter what they do. R. Kelly, 16 years in the game, one incident can’t take away the last 15 years.

AP: What do you want people to know about this album?

T-Pain: I’ve made club songs and I’ve made radio songs and I’ve made the car songs. These songs are T-Pain songs. These are my songs. This is all me and it came from my heart. If people like this album that means they like me as a person.

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