T-Pain Reveals that Criticism Drove Him to Drink

I’ve always known that artists are the most insecure group of people that you’ve ever meet.

Still it’s always surprising and ironic to hear it first hand. Ironic because artists often times give others the confidence they need to get through challenging experiences.

In a VIBE article, T-Pain reveals that he was very aware of the criticism he received from his auto-tuned sound and turned to alcoholism to cope.

Around the time when people were hating on me about Auto-Tune, I was drinking as much as I could to get away from my problems, crying to myself. I’ve almost lost fingers from punching glass and pictures. I turned into a raging alcoholic. If I could talk to myself then, I would say, “Stop trying to get approval from these wack niggas that’s only gonna take your style.

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