T-Pain is claiming that former ‘Voice’ coach Usher sent him into a four-year depression.
Getty A picture shows channel logos displayed on screens and a mixing console in the control room of the studios of new French football television channel Telefoot in Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris, on August 18, 2020. In a new Netflix docuseries, “This Is Pop”, T-Pain claims that Usher’s comments about his use of autotune sent the “Buy U a Drank” singer into a four-year depression. In the first season of the Netflix show, per Too Fab, T-Pain recalled Usher talking to him on a plane ride to the BET Awards. T-Pain said, “He was like, ‘I want to tell you something, man’. He sounded real concerned. He was like, ‘Man, you kinda f***** up music.’” T-Pain explained that while he tried to take no offense to the comments, he eventually started questioning whether or not Usher was right. “I was like, ‘What did I do? I came out and I used Auto-Tune.’ He was like, ‘Yeah, you f—– it up.’ I’m like, ‘But I used it, I didn’t tell everybody else to start using it.’” T-Pain described the interaction as a pivotal moment in his career.
