Posted: Nov Wed 2008 11:08 AM CST
T-Pain And JT Marry Up (Can’t Believe It)
Forget about Santa’s elves. T-Pain has Justin Timberlake.
That’s right. J.T. has signed on to help the rapper with the remix of his hit record Can’t Believe It. Justin’s voice will be heard on the new hoppin’ spinout. You’re welcome, world.
“We actually met six months ago”
“We actually met, like, six months ago. I was at the studio in Miami working on my album, and he was in the room next door,” T-Pain texted the MTV News interviewer this weekend. “He came to my room, and I played him some records from the album, and he said ’Can’t Believe It’ was his favorite song I ever did. I was shocked.”
He obviously got tickled over the whole thing, then-the next thing they received was “Pain laughs.”
After he’d recovered, he went on. “So knowing that [Justin loved the record], I wanted him on the record since that day,” he txted. “But it never happened until [last] week. I got a call that said, ‘Hey, Justin hopped on “Can’t Believe It.”‘ It’s just awesome when someone who don’t ever do remixes with anyone hopped on my song out of every hot record out there. I never expected it to happen. That’s some real sh–. I just called him to tell him thank you!”
Texting fingers
His texting fingers are obviously very good. We won’t even go into those mad b’zeats of his.
There’s a fun 30-sec clip available for your listening pleasure below. In the new “Can’t Believe It” track, Lil Wayne’s been replaced by JT, who asks “Hey, Pain, I don’t normally do this, but let me talk to them for a second,” then wooes the ladies with this smooth words, and his legendary Auto-Tune effect.
“I can put you in a townhouse”
“I can put you in a townhouse/ I can put you in my house,” Justin croons. “I’m talking about Timberlake, yeah/ We can have the wedding in Jamaica …/ Your love is built like a drug, and I don’t want to be sober.”
Ah! Amore!
T-Pain is no stranger to the remix; he did another “Can’t Believe It” with Akon and Kardinal Offishall, cohorts from his label, Konvict Muzik. (Transl.: Convict Music)
Pain makes a bold statement at the end of the newest version: “Auto-Tune is almost on the way out.”
Whoa. Whoa, now.
