oh oh my god oh my is it worse than you remember it [Music] hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm shawn evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we welcome him back to the hot seat it's t-pain he's a bona fide hitmaker two-time
grammy award winner and has close to 50 billboard charting bops to his name his latest single is get up and today he's back for another go round with the wings of death t-pain welcome back to hot ones what's happening brother how are you i'm doing good if i recall correctly
last time around you coated your stomach with milk to help fight the spice are you doing anything creative this time around i am doing something creative this time i have my milk on deck but i also have and and this is this scientific fact right here that is going to help i also have uh
slightly chilled tequila so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to pre-mess up my stomach and then the wings should have zero [Music] effects there we go all right let's do it oh the classic oh oh god um okay not bad not bad so earlier this month you became
somewhat of an internet folk hero by opening up your catalog of beats at least the most recent ones to streamers who want to use them for free on twitch as someone with a shrewd understanding of both video game streaming and the music industry what do you make of this recent wave of
copyright takedowns that have swept across platforms like youtube and twitch i i don't know what the whole thing is man i mean it's really free promotion for all of us you know artists and labels alike um and the crazy thing is whenever labels need promotion for their artists or
anything like that they always hit up gamers if you need the streamers don't disable them i don't think it's fair what they're doing but luckily you have artists like myself and a couple other dj's coming to the aid of streamers and stuff like that so
you know it's uh it sucks but you know we also got some good people in this industry what makes animal crossing the ultimate toilet game it's not a lot of stress you can do things at your own pace you're actually already living that life right now what makes it the ultimate toilet game
right now is that it's a quarantine game you're paying bills you're staying home you making sure everybody else in your neighborhood is good and that's exactly what animal crossing is and if we were in the hustle and bustle if i was on planes and stuff like that then it wouldn't
be as fascinating to me but animal crossing is just life simulator right now it's so green oh god um oh that's good though it's not bad so these versus battles on instagram live have become a real staple of quarantine and then your club banger showdown that was two and a half hours
long with little john was definitely one of the highlights how do you go about putting together your set list like you have to be strategic on some level and think about trap songs and how to set up the next thing yeah it was um it was actually a whole
process of you know thinking about what john is going to play and you know it's like it's like any other competition man you gotta kind of look at the highlights he's been a dj for god knows how long so i had a lot of highlight reels that i could pull up with little john to see what his
favorite songs are players and me and my whole team kind of got together and kind of put together like a bracket list of what we thought was coming next and what we thought was going to be played after what i played but the whole thing really depended on who was going first
because we didn't work that out beforehand so i had to make sure that john wasn't going to dust me right at the beginning so i had the bangers ready but i had another list ready to go just in case he wanted to go first if he would win first i would have dusted it
there's this constant debate about matchups that fans want to see whether it's like nas versus jay-z or diddy versus dr dre what's an underrated match-up that no one's talking about but should i wouldn't say it wouldn't be fair but it would be kind of weird i'd like to
see andre 3000 go against bitcoin not only do they both have separate careers but they also did that double cd the speaker box in the love below i would love to see those albums go head to head i think that's one that people aren't thinking is a a good matchup but i very much like to see both of them
together talking to each other again at the very least that's a weird thing oh it's hot dude oh no don't you do it don't you say your goddamn work working at your pace working at your pace my friend [Music] okay it's getting there it's getting there
oh god i'm so glad y'all don't have to see these whole wings so anyone that's ever heard buy you a drink knows that it's obviously objectively a smacker but i'm curious just from a musical perspective are there details in that song that you think propelled it to its level of popularity
when i made the beat i didn't think it was going to be like a giant song but when i started writing the lyrics and started putting in lyrics from other people's songs i think that really propelled it to be like oh my god this has all my favorite songs in one dope song
so once i made it i was so proud of it i walked into chris brown studio and showed it to chris brown and he tried to take it from me he was like oh my god he looked at his manager like we got to get ready we got to get this on my album and i was like yeah man for sure not whatever you want and i was just
i was just defeated at the time and then as soon as he as soon as i left out that room man i was like he's not ever hearing that song again until it come out i'm never that sorry it was my father being too excited i know chris wanted that song i'm sorry chris i love you man but
i needed that one brother [Music] oh boy i can't really taste that the other guy oh yeah oh you see musicians flex phantoms all the time but i've never seen anyone ride as hard for budget compacts the way that you do why are scion xb's and mini coopers why are they so special to you
it's just too much sometimes it's too much i can floor my mini cooper for 20 minutes on the highway just pedal to the middle going super fast over 100 miles an hour totally fine let you floor a bugatti for 30 seconds now you got to replace radiators each radiator is 25 grand
and there's four of them in the car but if you break one you got to replace all of them what is that what german what come on what is that owning expensive cars it's the worst i hate it and i don't know why we moved into that and i don't know why rappers before me made me think it was
going to be easy-peasy especially if you got 19 of them that was not fun i had a bitly gt i had it for one day i parked it at the studio so i can go out of town and come back the next day came back the next day whole studio flooded out whole thing my car was underwater
and let me tell you if that would have happened in a mini cooper i would have had another mini cooper the next day but being that it was eventually gtc there was no fixing couldn't get it fixed had to let it go i bought a bentley couldn't get any money back flooded out nobody wanted to fix it it
was two water damage bentley out the door just stupid [Music] we may have sauced these too much you gotta roll that r man you gotta figure that out that's really good so you've long been one of the culinary world's most underrated thinkers and last time around
we explored some of your amazing food takes that you delivered to the internet this first one really hit home for me because there was a time where one time i ate a taco from the top and the internet roasted me for literally months on end and recently you tweeted [ __ ] trying to tell
me i'm the wrong one because i eat burritos sideways i'm not gonna be a part of your liberal society cuz people care way too much about how you eat something you know yeah it's really crazy man i don't see how it's gonna affect anybody else's life but the good thing is
that that you know i try to tell people of why i do that because when you eat a burrito sideways it turns into a taco eventually so you can't devalue my my thoughts because you've been taught to eat your things a certain way i'm sure there are people out there that eat burritos regularly in front of people
then they go and try my method and like oh my god this is much better but i can never show anyone and that's just not cool man be proud of how you eat burritos ever notice how long it takes to leave a restaurant like from the second you're ready to leave time it next time see how long it takes
okay while you're eating waitress or waiter is there non-stop they won't let you eat they keep talking to you while you're trying you've got a mouthful of food but how's everything tasting i'm eating it i haven't spit it out yet this should be an indication
from across the room that i'm fine but then when you're done all the plates are empty everybody's down they're just chilling nobody has their hands on the table anymore the restaurant just shuts down nobody's there anymore nobody's coming to see how was it here's your check
do you guys want anything else do you want to order the souffle that's going to take 45 minutes but it's okay if you wait nobody wants to come at that point and then it just takes it takes like double the time it took for you to eat for you to leave and i it's just the weirdest thing in
the world all right one more for you t-pain bro i just ate a 200 chicken nugget that was an experience that was an experience i was uh at a company called just what they were doing were making vegan food products like eggs chicken nuggets and things out of sales of living
animals and that process is so extensive and and so elaborate that each chicken nugget at that moment was 200 bucks and they make eggs from the same process nothing's different about it it's just you don't have to murder an animal every time you want to eat it so
it was actually pretty cool it was actually really good [Music] seafire gourmet reaper that don't make any sense how do you know what's the process of picking hot dogs so i'm happy you asked that we uh [Music] we have a hot sauce plug noah from heatness he helps us figure this out
every year noah we ain't friends bro wait oh my god so when you won the masked singer as the one-eyed monster you described it as an f you everybody moment oh son ah [Music] when i went to bad singer to the people that didn't know what i was capable of and you know i've
had over the years you can imagine oh my god my spit is spicy what is going on um over the years you can imagine how many people have been calling me the auto-tune guy you know all i know how to do is do auto-tune i don't have any talent they don't know that i've been producing
all my albums and producing and writing for other people so when i took that mask off it was like oh my god it was just a great moment like that's right [ __ ] [ __ ] this is how this works huh i should have cheated why did i do this correctly i should've you know we could not we could not
police it you know why the [ __ ] that we really are on the honor system oh my god what are you gonna come check oh my god [Music] okay okay we try to keep the integrity of the show that's why because we love you man i know you can't respond your eyes careful around your eyes yeah i just wipe my
mouth with that same thing this is not going to be good in about 20 seconds go ahead though keep going all right let's move on we'll keep it moving this is thor's hammer thor's hammer in the seventh spot it's very hot very hot [Music] oh my god so this year marks the 10-year
anniversary of freaknik the musical an animated special about the infamous atlanta street festival that you produce and starred in for adult swim as someone who loves cartoons more than anyone i've ever met in my life where does that particular project stack up against some of your other major
[Music] accomplishments grammys okay that's other people judging what you do and other people coming together and saying who's better at what but having something in your mind and having something come out the way that you imagined it and it'd be so successful
that we had two million more viewers than than than a particular award show that was happening at the same time i think i think that was uh i think that was one of my that was one of my crowning achievements man it was pretty good that was good do you have a mount rushmore of cartoons
a top four of all time ooh chowder my hero academia squid billy rick and morty's in there for sure no question i am running out of napkins this is ah [Music] well i don't know if you recall this one uh this is the bomb beyond insanity at the eight spot
my tears burn i don't know why that's happening my tears are burning my skin ah oh it tastes like gas [Music] ah [Music] oh ah [ __ ] you noah so i've heard that when you go to a strip club you'll have the manager turn all of the tvs in your section onto cartoon network
what are some other moves that separate a veteran in the strip club from a noob um spending money when you don't have to there's no reason to spend as much money especially if you know you're going to do something later this is so much worse than last time [Music] are you in atlanta right now yeah we
shot hot ones the game show in atlanta what can you tell people about the claremont lounge it's the best chip club ever known to man there's a 80 year old stripper in there and she [ __ ] works it boy i'll see where she wouldn't tidy why does it know let's go
oh god i'm gonna throw up this might be the hardest question that we asked this entire interview but to put you on the spot what do you think is the single greatest all-time t-pain strip club anthem long left dance song for sure it's the longest one and it'll get you the most it gets your
most out of your dance okay [Music] oh i don't think hope they just get worse so you've been through all the highs and lows that you would expect from somebody who spent 15 years in the music industry but the thing that i admire about you most is that somehow someway you're able to
grow through these moments and come out with a fresh and new perspective how do you view the role of a record label in 2020 there seems to be so much tension between artist and label but nothing really changes the model stays the same i think the world of the world of
information has grown so much oh my god the world of information has grown so much that artists can now see what the labels have been doing and how they've been making money it was a secret for a long time but now i think that artists know what the labels are doing and how
they're making money that the labels have become unnecessary in success the artists have realized that what labels do isn't some superhuman power that is just unavailable to everybody else and i think that that is where artists are at this point this sucks okay you ready i'm ready hear that cheers
ah [Music] okay okay all right t-pain here we are on the last stop in the show and i know that you've been pushed to the brink today but one thing that i love about you is that you are the fun guy you're always so much fun and i remember the first time that you came into the
studio you were like hey sean what's up you'd already seen all the episodes you knew exactly where you were in the line and i'll never forget that about you i'll never forget that about you so now coming back here and doing it a second time dying stomach twisting sweating from the
face yep as someone who's able to find the fun and everything what do you find fun about this the interview part man just you sean and you you as a person man you know it's not if it's usually on stuff like this the host wouldn't do it at all the fact that you do it with
people and the fact that you are our actual friends and you you actually look after us and stuff like that man i think it's you that makes this show so damn great man it's you know we go we do we do interview on top of interview on top of the interview every day
and it it's great that i can agree to do an interview with you because you actually go deeper into things you actually do the challenge with us you actually uh give a [ __ ] if we are throwing up or not uh it's just it's it's a it's a level of respect between interviewer interviewees so it's youth
that does his whole thing man judah makes this fun and you're just such a cool [ __ ] guy and i think we all just love you more so than doing this dumb [ __ ] you know i wasn't expecting that but i'm really touched by that and thank you so much you've always got a friend in me
absolutely now it is my honor t-pain to roll out the red carpet for you this camera or possibly a camera b if you've set one up let the people know what you have going on in your life you know right now pain and torment um the new single get up um all proceeds oh my god
i think it's worse all proceeds go to crime survivors for safety and justice uh it's an organization that i've been dealing with for a while and make sure you go to pizzlepack.com if you want that dmca free music for your streaming purposes for twitch mixer facebook gaming uh
youtube whatever you want uh oh my god ah i hope you guys are safe corona free and if if not then i i hope you guys get better i love you all love you sean oh jesus [ __ ] [ __ ] you noah [Music] hey what's going on hot ones fans this is sean evans checking in with one camera guy how you doing steven
you good good steven's good there's no one else in this building except for the two of us it is locked down over here but you know what the pepperdome is open for all new episodes of hot ones the game show tuesdays on truetv the pepperdome see you there if you dare