During the next several years, as Auto-Tune usage became increasingly common across commercial music - used more frequently to mask vocal deficiency than as the equivalent of an effect pedal for a guitar - T-Pain continued to make hits.
The two singles earned RIAA platinum certifications, and the parent full-length eventually went gold, situating T-Pain as a major breakthrough artist of the mid-2000s.The success wasn't a fluke. That December, the album Rappa Ternt Sanga arrived, supported by the follow-up single 'I'm 'n Luv (Wit a Stripper),' another Top Ten hit on multiple Billboard charts.
The self-produced and self-written 'I'm Sprung,' T-Pain's proper debut single, was released in August 2005 and went Top Ten pop and R&B/hip-hop.
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As a solo artist, he went pro as T-Pain after he recorded 'I'm Fucked Up,' a personalized take on Akon's 'Locked Up.' Akon heard it, then signed T-Pain to the Jive/Zomba-supported Konvict Muzik label. The Tallahassee, Florida native came up as a rapper in a group called Nappy Headz. Faheem Najm's singing ability was on clear display in the first notes of his breakthrough R&B single 'I'm Sprung,' yet his recurrent use of Auto-Tune created a widespread ripple effect that left his performing name synonymous with voice modulation.
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