T-Pain stopped taking credit for writing country songs because of the “racism” he faced.
The 39-year-old rapper admitted he is a big fan of the genre and it has inspired a number of his own songs, even if other people don’t think it is “cool” to look at other musical styles.
He said in a TikTok video: “Good music is good music. I don’t (care) where it comes from or what style it comes in. All the people I know feel like it’s not cool to listen to other genres of music. Country music is where I get all my harmonies.”
And the “Bartender” hitmaker – real name Faheem Rashad Najm – admitted he’s hidden the full extent of his forays into the country world because he doesn’t want to experience a backlash due to his skin color.
He continued: “I done wrote a lot of country songs (but) I stopped taking credit for it because as cool as it is to see your name in those credits and (stuff) like that, the racism that comes after it is just like, “I’ll just take the cheque. Don’t put me on that. I’ll just take the cheque, bro. Never mind, dude.””
Although T-Pain didn’t reveal who he had written for or if he uses an alias, he previously claimed to have penned tracks for a number of “very important” country artists when he spent two years living in Nashville.
He told ‘The Breakfast Club’: “I write a lot of country music for huge country artists that would rather not have it known that I write for them. I got back up with Taylor Swift, Luke Bryan, Rhett Akins (and) Dallas Davidson. So, you know, I’ve written a lot for a lot (for) very important country artists.”
