T-Pain

press release

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), the world’s leading global music publisher, today announced details of a world-wide co-publishing agreement with international breakthrough artist B.o.B., as well as an exclusive world-wide publishing deal with Alex da Kid, who co-wrote and produced B.o.B’s Top 5 single, “Airplanes.” The deal with B.o.B. was signed through UMPG’s joint [...]

starpulse

Rapper T-Pain is facing a lawsuit from reality TV singer Sara Stokes after she accused him of cheating her out of royalty payments for her work on a Jennifer Hudson song. The former Making The Band star, who battled to land a place in Da Band in the second series of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ [...]

Cyrus Langhorne
SOHH

Diddy has offered more details about his new recording contract with Interscope Records and promised his Bad Boy artists still remaining on Atlantic Records would continue to be taken care of.
Appearing on “106 & Park,” Puff officially announced the beginning of his Bad Boy/Interscope “era.”
“Dirty Money is on Interscope,” Diddy [...]

press release

Antares Audio Technologies has announced the availability of I Am T-Pain, the first (and only) iPhone app to put genuine Auto-Tune technology in the palm of your hand. Jointly developed by Antares, T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Enterprises, and Smule (the developer of the best-selling iPhone musical app, Ocarina), I Am T-Pain lets you step into [...]

The T-Pain video appeared as part of the show’s cold open, where Swift and host Bill Engvall talked about her dreams (which also included being in the new “Star Trek” movie and playing for the Tennessee Titans). She closed well, too: “Love Story” won both Female Video of the Year and Video of the Year.

Jim Harrington
blogs.mercurynews

What a bizarre evening of music, and music that was missing, in San Jose.
Folks who arrived at the HP Pavilion in San Jose for the Lil Wayne/T-Pain double-header on Friday night were notified by signage that the latter would not be appearing at the show.
Some didn’t see the small signage, and only learned [...]

JOAN FLEISCHMAN
miamiherald

Hip-hop star T-Pain got slapped with a lawsuit Monday in Broward Circuit Court — for canceling a major concert in Guyana last month because of alleged kidnap and death threats.
The plaintiff, Hits and Jams Entertainment, says the 23-year-old rapper and his reps became a major pain by making grandiose demands — from a private [...]

press release

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R&B singer T-Pain has canceled a concert in Guyana after receiving what a promoter calls “credible death and kidnapping threats.”
Kerwin Bollers says Monday’s performance for Carnival celebrations was called off after e-mail and phone threats from an unidentified source. Police Commander Leroy Bollers reporters Sunday that authorities will investigate.
T-Pain would have been one of the [...]