WATCH: T-Pain and Usher Reconcile After Tense Auto-Tune Accusations

L-R: Usher, T-Pain
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WATCH: T-Pain and Usher Reconcile After Tense Auto-Tune Accusations

T-Pain's "rappa ternt sanga" energy powered the pop charts like a solar panel in the late '00s and early '10s - but not everyone was happy with his Auto-Tune-augmented sound. Now, the Florida native has made public amends with one of the superstars who accused him of "ruining" music: R&B/pop hitmaker Usher.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“I’m telling you, we ain’t going through nothing, bro," T-Pain told Usher onstage at an event for controversial comedian Dave Chappelle on Nov. 21. "It’s all love. In a time when we’re divided the most, we need to be together the most. I love you, bro. I’m never not gonna love you, bro, trust me.”

The public display of affection comes after a clip from the Netflix docuseries This is Pop finds T-Pain recounting a 2013 conversation he had with Usher where the Confessions star accused the "Buy U a Drank" singer of overusing Auto-Tune. "He said, ‘I’m gonna tell you something, man. You kinda fucked up music,’” T-Pain said. “‘Yeah man you really fucked 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 fucked it up.’ I’m like, ‘But I used it, I didn’t tell everybody else to start using it.’ I don’t even think I realized this for a long time, but that’s the very moment that started a four-year depression for me.”

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It's worth noting that T-Pain received major props for an Auto-Tune-free Tiny Desk Concert for NPR only a year later, and won the inaugural American season of The Masked Singer in 2019 by impressing judges with his unadorned vocals while dressed in a monster costume.

Earlier this year, Usher talked to Billboard about his reaction to learning T-Pain's feelings. "It was very hurtful to know that he had experienced that kind of hardship in life,” Usher told the magazine. “I wouldn’t wish that on any person. Private conversations for me have always been intended to uplift. But when or if people get pieces of it, they can always have some other interpretation. But we’ve spoken since and we’re good.” (T-Pain later said that exchange never took place.)

In any event, this beef is squashed, and now we can all go back to agreeing T-Pain's contributions to music are welcome, from Flo Rida's "Low" to The Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat."

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