It’s not every day that a Grammy-winning music artist visits Millersville University. T-Pain and company will be performing at Pucillo Gym on Thursday April 16, with doors opening at 7 p.m.
For all those who are curious, T-Pain’s real name is Faheem Rasheed Najm. He has been featured with so many other artists it would take forever to name them all. He seems to be in every pop/rap/hiphop song on the radio. Pretty much, if it’s not Akon or Lil Wayne featured in a song, it’s T-Pain.
He was originally in the rap group “Nappy Headz.” However, he put out his first solo CD in 2005, called “Rappa Ternt Sanga,” which simply means he wants to be a rapper. Instead, T-Pain became this rapper/singer phenomenon. It will be interesting to see the songs he chooses to sing here at Millersville University because T-Pain sings other artists songs much more often than he sings his own.
He has been in hit songs such as “Got Money” by Lil Wayne, “Cyclone” by Baby Bash and “All the Above” by Maino. Some of his more well known personal solo songs include “Church,” “Bartender” and “Snap Yo Fingers.” T-Pain should be extremely entertaining, not only because of his musical abilities, but because of his performance abilities as well.
Many Rappers take themselves too seriously, and put on this show of being big, bad and in demand. However, T-Pain apparently can make fun of himself too. He is featured on “The Lonely Island’s” CD Incredibad, which is a compilation of rap/pop parodies from the guys of Saturday Night Live. T-Pain lends his star-power to the track, “I’m On a Boat.”
The best thing about the song is that T-Pain sounds and acts exactly as he does on every other song he is featured on. But at the same time he is making fun of himself, and anyone who can make fun of themselves is obviously able to have a good time. Thursday’s performance should prove just that.
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