{"id":7106,"date":"2014-10-09T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2014-10-09T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:00:44","slug":"t-pain-reveals-that-criticism-drove-him-to-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=7106","title":{"rendered":"T-Pain Reveals that Criticism Drove Him to Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tpain-ohsodj.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tpain-ohsodj.jpg?resize=250%2C271\" alt=\"tpain.ohsodj\" width=\"250\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve always known that artists are the most insecure group of people that you&#8217;ve ever meet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Still it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019ve almost lost fingers from punching glass and pictures. I turned into a raging alcoholic. If I could talk to myself then, I would say, \u201cStop trying to get approval from these wack niggas that\u2019s only gonna take your style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color:#ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vibe.com\/article\/auto-tune-backlash-turned-t-pain-raging-drinker-who-cried-himself\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I&#8217;ve always known that artists are the most insecure group of people that you&#8217;ve ever meet.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[807,1225],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-matrix","tag-t-pain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-1QC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tpain-ohsodj.jpg?fit=250%2C271&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}