T-Pain x Adult Swim. The long awaited T-Pain created cartoon special “Freaknik: The Musical” is fast approaching. Here is the latest clip from Adult Swim which features Freaknik (T-Pain) and DJ Drama. This looks like classic material. Can’t wait to see the whole thing. Show airs on Adult Swim March 7th, 11:30 EST.

T-Pain x Nappy Boy Digital. Does T-Pain’s record label hold the keys to the future for the music industry? It’s no secret that digital sales of music continue to increase while physical CD sales whimper along…so to T-Pain it just makes perfect sense to do away with the physical CD altogether.

“Nappy Boy Digital is a digital company, basically based on the Internet, it’s on iTunes and not really a physical company, you know what I’m saying?” stated T-Pain in a recent interview. ”A lot of people are pressing up all these CDs and pressing up all these extra jewel cases and the inserts and and all that stuff and then everybody’s buying the stuff on the Internet so it’s not making them any money, they losing money, so, Nappy Boy Digital is my digital company, it’s all Internet and that’s just how we go.”

For the number of units that a smaller label like Nappy Boy would press per year it actually does make sense to go digital and avoiding not only the physical product fees but also the sales and placeholder fees for getting your album placed in stores to begin with. It’s only a matter of time before all labels go digital…it’s not like you really buy CDs at Best Buy or Wal-Mart anymore do you? You can check T-Pain and his Nappy Boy crew over at NappyBoyOnline.com.

T-Pain x Adult Swim. The promotional efforts for T-Pain’s upcoming cartoon special “Freaknik: The Musical” have ramped up by the Adult Swim marketing staff. The hour long show stars T-Pain but will have guest voices including Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne and more. Check the video where they talk about the upcoming special and take a look at the poster after the jump. Show airs March 7th on Adult Swim.

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T-Pain x Adult Swim. Here is the trailer to T-Pain’s upcoming one hour animated special “Freaknik: The Musical” which also features the voices of Lil Wayne (playing Jesus), Snoop Dogg, Keri Hilson, Kelis, Big Boi, Rick Ross, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. Show is scheduled to air on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on March 7.

T-Pain x Budweiser. The majority of Super Bowl ads came pretty short in the entertainment factor but this Bud Light one was one of the few that pulled through. Nothing better than talking every day conversation in Auto-Tune.

T-Pain x DanceJam. T-Pain has teamed up with hip-hop dance website DanceJam.com to find three dancers who will join him on an upcoming tour. Live now, dancers across the nation can upload their best dance videos to http://www.DanceJam.com/contest/TPain for a chance to be selected by Pain and go on a world tour as his backup dancers.

The contest ends on February 16th, and the winners will be announced on February 22nd. Check the video where T-Pain goes into more detail on the promotion.

Lil Wayne x T-Pain x Cartoon Network. Lil Wayne is teaming up with T-Pain in the Adult Swim cartoon special “Freakniks.” Weezy is set to play Jesus Christ in the cartoon and and will be creating a mock music video to accompany the role called “The Ghetto Commandments.”

“Basically it was a Black Spring Break that went down in Atlanta and got shut down back in ‘98 or ‘99. So the show is going to resurrect that, and it’s going to be starring T-Pain and Lil’ Wayne and all these other artists like David and some other dudes,” said Adult Swim creative director Jake Escobedo. “It’s all drawn, and T-Pain plays the ghost of spring break, the Spirit of Freaknik. He brings this party back to Atlanta and the artists have done all this music for it, and it’s amazing.”

T-Pain and Adult Swim have formed a solid relationship as T-Pain previously played Frylock in the live-action version of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and is also a big fan of many Adult Swim programs.

The team that brought the world “I’m On A Boat” is back. This time Andy Samberg gets some good plug-ins for T-Pain’s Auto Tune iPhone app…while singing to a hermit crab. Yea just watch the video compliments of Funny or Die.

The Nappy Headz x The Nappy Headz Story. Before there was Auto-Tune in hip-hop, before there was T-Pain the multi-platinum album artist…there were The Nappy Headz. Similar to Eminem and D-12, The Florida based Nappy Headz made a pact that if one of them got big that they would back up the rest of the group in bringing them to stardom as well.

Apparently T-Pain didn’t do as planned and The Nappy Headz are calling him out in this full-length documentary.

The way you did it. You didn’t tell us. You just started making songs. You ran off,” a member of the group says in the film’s trailer. “It had to be a Nappy Head for them to know T-Pain.”

“I’m just disappointed in the way he let the success get to him,” another member added.

Well looks like they are making money through him now…or trying to depending on how many people actually buy the DVD. You can buy it at the official site for $14.95.

AdAge just announced that the technology and sound that T-Pain made famous is now one of the Hottest Brands of 2009. Jay-Z would not be happy as Antares Audio Technologies’ Auto-Tune made AdAge’s yearly hot list of top brands. Ad Age states:

“Consumer spending may have gone cold in 2009, but that didn’t stop these marketers from turning up the temperature. Here Ad Age chooses the upstarts and established brands that are setting the pace for innovation — and getting results — right now. Auto-Tune, the vocal pitch correction software, may be the most obscure product that almost everybody knows,” and go on to describe Auto-Tune’s ubiquitous presence and brand name recognition in everything from hip hop music and popular YouTube videos to the I Am T-Pain iPhone app.”

Although Auto-Tune clearly has its haters there is no denying that it was one of the most popular branded names of the year in music and in popular culture. Parent company Antares was quick to capitalize on the new found publicity that T-Pain brought their company and technology and licensced their Auto-Tune technology for everything from TV commercials to iPhone apps.

T-Pain x I Am T-Pain. As we reported earlier this month, T-Pain’s iPhone app “I Am T-Pain” has been downloaded over 300,000 times grossing the producer close to $1 million. Although some thought it would just be a passing fad, Apple has recently reported their top grossing iPhone applications and “I Am T-Pain” is still going strong at #9.

It is currently out grossing top apps such as EA’s FIFA Soccer, The Sims 3, Scrabble and Monopoly. Although it seems every hip-hop artist these days is coming out with their own iPhone apps as an alternative revenue stream, only T-Pain can really claim true million dollar success.

T-Pain x Brothers. T-Pain makes his major network TV debut on an upcoming episode of the sitcom “Brothers” which stars former NY Giant Michael Strahan. The episode airs on Friday Oct 9th 8pm on FOX where T-Pain actually plays himself…but broke.  Here is the official storyline:

In the episode, Mike (Michael Strahan) and Chill (Daryl Mitchell) encounter a financially strapped T Pain at Trainor’s, the family’s restaurant.

Guess that means  no “BIG ASS CHAIN” for T-Pain as he results to selling stolen watches to make money. T-Pain previously appeared on a live-action version of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” where he played Frylock. Check out more pics from the “Brothers” episode after the jump. Via: CL

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T-Pain x I Am T-Pain. While artists search for new ways to make money outside of actual album sales, T-Pain has already tapped into the lucrative iPhone app business. According to app developer Smule, T-Pain’s “I Am T-Pain” iPhone app has already been downloaded 300,000 times in just three weeks.

At a price of $2.99 per download that’s almost a gross of a cool million dollars. Not bad for a little app that everyone thought was just a gimmick. Regardless of a gimmick or not…it’s T-Pain that is laughing his way to the bank. Via: Mashable

Auto-Tune might be on its way out but that won’t stop T-Pain from making more money off of it. His long-awaited iPhone app which turns your voice into the signature T-Pain sound is now out and available at IamTPain.com. In this video T-Pain takes the app to every artist he can think of and shows it off.