Auto-tune crooner T-Pain may be responsible for the evolution of Hip-Hop music in the early 2010s but according to fellow musician Usher Raymond, he ruined the genre.
Watch: T-Pain reveals what Usher told him
In a snippet taken from a Netflix series This Is Pop, T-Pain opened up about the root cause of what became a four-year depression.
In 2013, the I’m Sprung star was on a flight trip to the BET Awards with Usher, who was a close friend of his at the time. According to T-Pain, a flight attendant rocked him out of sleep, informing him that Usher wanted his audience.
Little did he know, the Confessions singer had a few blunt words to unbottle from his chest.
“Usher was my friend. I really respect Usher. And he said, ‘I’m gonna tell you something, man. You kinda f****d up music,'” Pain recalled.
Usher’s brutal confession sent his friend into a deep state of depression that went on for four years.
A highly revered vocalist with a cult following of women who would trade anything for a glance to be cast their way was informing T-Pain who, at the time, was already faced with harsh criticism for his mechanically adjusted voice (harken back to Jay-Z’s Death of Autotune), that he was the reason music lost it’s true essence.
“‘Yeah man you really f****d up music for real singers.’ I was like, ‘What did I do? I came out and I used Auto-Tune.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, you f****d it up.’ I’m like, ‘But I used it, I didn’t tell everybody else to start using it,’” T-Pain added.
Here’s the clip where T-Pain spoke candidly about the heartbreak Usher caused him:
Social media guns after Usher
As soon as the snippet landed on social media, it took off. It seems Usher can’t catch a break from taking backlash, be it from snide comments he made about Nicki Minaj, to the infamous ‘usher bucks‘ that ruined the reputation of a Las Vegas stripper.
Here are some of the reactions we picked out from the trending topic:
